Thursday, August 27, 2009

Warren and Sharp join Vickers’s Little Voice

British stage and screen stars Lesley Sharp and Marc Warren are to join former X-Factor star Diana Vickers in the upcoming West End revival of The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice.
The headlining trio are joined in the dark comic drama, which runs at the Vaudeville theatre from 8 October, by Rachel Lumbert and James Cartwright.
Sharp is to play Mari, the drunken, overbearing mother from whom Little Voice escapes to her bedroom to listen to her late father’s records and perfect impersonations of divas including Judy Garland, Edith Piaf and Shirley Bassey. Warren takes the role of Ray Say, Mari’s current boyfriend and working men’s club impresario who hears Little Voice’s singing and thrusts her into a spotlight of which she is terrified.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Stones charge millions to play at weddings



The Rolling Stones charge £5 million to perform at weddings.The ageing rockers – made up of frontman Sir Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood - have been named the world’s most expensive wedding act, ahead of Sir Elton John and Kylie Minogue who only demand £2 million to play at nuptials. In 2002 the 'Sympathy for the Devil’ hitmakers - who refuse to perform private shows unless they are already on tour - charged the enormous sum to play a 90-minute set at a lavish party in the US. 'Candle in the Wind’ singer Elton scooped £1.5 million in 2001 after singing along to his piano for a private bash.However, the pop icon donates all earnings from private concerts to his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, rather than pocket the huge sums.In the poll - commissioned to celebrate Living TV’s 'Four Weddings’ series, which airs on Mondays in the UK - US songstress Christina Aguilera was named the fourth priciest performer at £1.5 million a show while British pop star George Michael bags £1.3 million for a private concert.Troubled 'Rehab’ starlet Amy Winehouse, Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, 'X Factor’ winner Leona Lewis and US star Jennifer Lopez can each demand £1 million for a post-nuptials performance.