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Act Two (Collabro Album)
''Act Two'' is the second studio album by English boy band Collabro. It was released on 1 June 2015 and debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart. It sold 22,031 copies in the UK in its first week on sale. It has sold 75,142 copies as of March 2017. Background Collabro have claimed in interviews that the track listing was created through fan requests. Critical reception Yahoo gave a highly positive review. Track listing All tracks produced by James Morgan and Juliette Pochin Juliette Louise B. Pochin (born 1971) is a Welsh classically trained mezzo-soprano singer, composer/arranger, and record producer. She is known not only for her performances in operas and as a classical recitalist as well as for her recordings o .... Additional production on "All I Want" and "I Won't Give Up" by Ash Howes. Charts and certifications Charts Certifications References {{Authority control 2015 albums Collabro albums Covers albums Classical crossover albums Syco Music a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collabro
Collabro were a UK-based musical theatre group and winners of the eighth series of ''Britain's Got Talent'' in 2014. The group consisted of Michael Auger, Jamie Lambert, Matthew Pagan and Thomas J. Redgrave. Richard Hadfield left the band in June 2016. Collabro was voted the UK's favourite Britain's Got Talent Winners in a National Poll. The band have a following who they refer to as their "Collaborators" and famous fans include Jade Thirlwall from Little Mix. Their debut album ''Stars'', was released on 15 August 2014 and peaked at number one in the UK. Their second album '' Act Two'', was released on 1 June 2015 and peaked at number two in the UK. Their third album ''Home'', was released on 3 March 2017 and peaked at number seven in the UK. Their fourth album ''Road to the Royal Albert Hall'', was released on 31 August 2018 and peaked at number nineteen in the UK. Their fifth album '' Love Like This'', was released on 15 November 2019 and peaked at number twenty-two in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Perri
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single "Jar of Hearts" was featured on the television series ''So You Think You Can Dance'' in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, ''The Ocean Way Sessions''. Her debut studio album, ''Lovestrong'' (2011), followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Perri also gained recognition for writing and recording " A Thousand Years", the love theme for the film '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'' (2012), which appears on the accompanying soundtrack. The song went on to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, being certified Diamond, and the official music video reached two billion views on YouTube in December 2021. She later released her second extended play, ''A Very Merry Perri Christmas'' (2012), followed by her second studio album, ''Head or Heart'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "Memory" from '' Cats,'' "The Music of the Night" and " All I Ask of You" from ''The Phantom of the Opera'', "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from ''Evita'', and " Any Dream Will Do" from '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.'' In 2001, ''The New York Times'' referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cats (musical)
''Cats'' is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based upon the 1939 poetry collection ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' by T. S. Eliot. It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. As of 2022, ''Cats'' remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the seventh-longest-running West End show. Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. ''Cats'' opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memory (Cats Song)
"Memory" is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot. It was written for the 1981 musical ''Cats'', where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance. "Memory" is the climax of the musical and by far its best-known song, having achieved mainstream success outside of the musical. According to musicologist Jessica Sternfeld, writing in 2006, it is "by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical." Elaine Paige originated the role of Grizabella in the West End production of ''Cats'' and was thus the first to perform the song publicly on stage. "Memory" was named the Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards. In 2020, Jessie Thompson of the ''Evening Standard'' wrote, "Paige’s version set the standard and enabled Memory to become one of the most recognisable musical theatre songs of all time." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Kretzmer
Herbert Kretzmer (5 October 192514 October 2020) was a South African-born English journalist and lyricist. He was best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and for his long-time collaboration writing the English-language lyrics to the songs of French songwriter Charles Aznavour. Early life Kretzmer was born in , South Africa in 1925. He was one of four sons of immigrants William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the |
Alain Boublil
Alain Boublil (born 5 March 1941) is a French musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End. These include ''La Révolution Française'' (1973), ''Les Misérables'' (1980), ''Miss Saigon'' (1989), ''Martin Guerre'' (1996), '' The Pirate Queen'' (2006), and '' Marguerite'' (2008). Life and career Boublil was born in Tunisia, to a Sephardic Jewish family. Boublil's first musical, ''La Révolution Française'', was the first-ever staged French rock opera. It was conceived by Boublil in 1973 after he watched the premiere of '' Jesus Christ Superstar'' in New York. The composer was Claude-Michel Schönberg, with whom Boublil has since collaborated on a number of successful projects, including ''Les Misérables'' and ''Miss Saigon''. ''Les Misérables'' first opened in Paris in 1980. On 8 October 1985, an English-language production of ''Les Misérables'' produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944, in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include ''La Révolution Française (rock opera), La Révolution Française'' (1973), ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' (1980), ''Miss Saigon'' (1989), ''Martin Guerre (musical), Martin Guerre'' (1996), ''The Pirate Queen'' (2006), and ''Marguerite (musical), Marguerite'' (2008). Career Early career Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. He wrote most of the music for the French musical and rock opera ''La Révolution Française (rock opera), La Révolution Française'', France's first rock opera, in 1973. He played the role of King Louis XVI of France, Louis XVI in the show's production that year. In 1974 he wrote the music and the lyrics of the song "Le Premier Pas", which became the number one hit in France that year, selling o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables (musical)
''Les Misérables'' ( , ), colloquially known as ''Les Mis'' or ''Les Miz'' ( ), is a sung-through musical and an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics) and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of ''The Fantasticks''. Set in early 19th-century France, ''Les Misérables'' is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption, released in 1815 after serving nineteen years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allee Willis
Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis (November 10, 1947 – December 24, 2019) was an American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director. Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She also co-wrote the song " What Have I Done to Deserve This?", a number 2 hit in both the UK (in 1987) and U.S. (in 1988) for Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield. She won two Grammy Awards for ''Beverly Hills Cop'' and ''The Color Purple'', the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for " I'll Be There for You", which was used as the theme song for the sitcom ''Friends''. Her compositions sold over 60 million records and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 as the only woman to be inducted that year. Early life Willis was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Mumford High School. Her parents were Jewish. Her father, Nathan, was a scrapyard dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Kauffman
Marta Fran Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' with her longtime friend, David Crane. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. Kauffman and Crane produced ''Veronica's Closet'' and ''Jesse''. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on ''Related''. Both writers were the creators of the HBO series '' Dream On''. Without Crane, she co-created the Netflix series ''Grace and Frankie''. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburbs,Jewish Journal: "For Kauffman, Making ‘Match’ Was a Blessing" by Danielle Berrin J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crane (producer)
David Crane (born August 13, 1957) is an American writer and producer. He is best known as one of the co-creators of the television sitcoms ''Friends'' and ''Episodes''. Early life Crane was born to a Jewish family in West New York, New Jersey, the son of Joan Crane and veteran Philadelphia television personality Gene Crane. He attended Harriton High School in Pennsylvania and graduated from there in 1975. He is a 1979 graduate of Brandeis University. Career He and his husband, Jeffrey Klarik (creator of ''Half & Half'', co-producer ''Mad About You''), created the 2006 ensemble sitcom '' The Class''. In 2011, Crane and Klarik created a sitcom called ''Episodes'' for the BBC. Airing first in the US on Showtime on Sunday January 9, 2011 and then on BBC Two on Monday January 10, 2011, it features ''Friends'' star Matt LeBlanc and ''Green Wings Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig (; born 12 July 1966) is an English actress, narrator and comedian. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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