Helena Blackman to release debut album
aaamusic | On 11, Feb 2011
RELEASED: FEB 14TH 2011
LONDON DATE: DELFONT ROOM, SUNDAY 13TH FEB
Helena Blackman is best known for being the runner-up in the BBC1 Reality TV programme How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and for headlining the critically acclaimed UK tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (for which she was nominated for a TMA Award in 2008). To celebrate her ongoing association with the legendary musical theatre writing duo, she releases her debut album, The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein on February 14th, out onSpeckulation Entertainment.
The album will feature Helena’s personal selection of much loved Rodgers & Hammerstein classics such as ‘I Enjoy Being a Girl’ and ‘I Have Confidence’, as well as lesser known gems like ‘The Gentleman is a Dope’. Helena is joined in two exclusive duets by the number one classical charting singer Jonathan Ansell and her fellow West End star Daniel Boys. The album is produced by Neil Eckersley & Paul Spicer for Speckulation Entertainment, with Helena playing an integral and extensive role its gestation.
Tracklisting:
1. I Have Confidence
2. What’s the Use of Wondrin’?
3. I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
4. It Might as Well be Spring
5. If I Love You / Something Wonderful
6. I Enjoy Being a Girl
7. I Have Dreamed (with Jonathan Ansell)
8. Some Enchanted Evening
9. Love Look Away
10. People Will Say We’re in Love (with Daniel Boys)
11. The Gentleman is a Dope
12. Climb Every Mountain
Helena Blackman’s London Date: The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Sunday 13th February 2011 – 7.00pm
Delfont Room, Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, London W1D 6AS
Tickets: £30.00 Seated / £20.00 Standing
Box Office: 0844 482 5110 (24 hrs)
Helena Blackman has already appeared on 3 albums to date. She has starred in the West End première of Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night and her many other theatre credits include Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and the title role in Gypsy. As a soloist she has worked for composers including: Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stiles & Drewe and Kander & Ebb. She has also sung for the Gershwin and David Heneker families and BBC Radio 2’s ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’
