John Barrowman and Lea Salonga - Tonight (from "West Side Story")

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By Andrew Gans
21 Jun 2005
Tony Award winner Lea Salonga and Sunset Boulevard's John Barrowman will take part in an upcoming tribute to the music of Leonard Bernstein in Germany.
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The Munich concert, A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein, will be held July 2 at the Klassik Am Odeonsplatz. The 9 PM performance will feature Barrowman and Salonga in a suite of songs from West Side Story with Barrowman singing the role of Tony and Salonga the role of Maria. The concert will also feature the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.
John Barrowman recently reprised his role as Billy Crocker in the National Theatre's production of Anything Goes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He originally played the role opposite Elaine Paige in 1989. On Broadway, the actor starred in the Stephen Sondheim revue Putting It Together and also made a guest appearance in the New York company of Sunset Boulevard, repeating his London role as Joe Gillis. Barrowman's other London theatrical credits include Grease!, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fix, Miss Saigon and Beauty and the Beast. He can currently be seen as Captain Jack in the BBC series "Dr. Who" and recently filmed a small role in the upcoming screen adaptation of Mel Brooks' The Producers. Barrowman's solo recordings include "John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter" and "Reflections from Broadway." He will soon return to the London Stage opposite Rob Lowe in A Few Good Men.
Lea Salonga burst onto the London and New York theatre scene as Kim in the international hit musical Miss Saigon. For her performance, she was awarded the Laurence Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards. On Broadway she was also seen in another Boublil Schönberg musical, Les Misérables, as the ill-fated Eponine, a role she would later repeat in the concert video of the musical. Her most recent Broadway appearance was in the revival of Flower Drum Song. (c) www.playbill.com/news/article/...

[@PhantomifyEponine]

This is the first time I heard Lea Salonga singing in her soprano voice... And it is awesome.

[@2034916]

What fabulous voices.

[@NYCER4LIFE]

I really wish Lea Salonga used her legit soprano more. It's such a lovely lyric instrument.

[@lafleurquicache]

Lea Salonga's vocal versatility and pristine quality blow me away.

[@demilovatofaith]

this was a match made in heaven!!!!!! and i didn't know lea salonga could even sing soprano

[@gregoryc1500]

Lea can sing anything

[@saignnmoments]

Fun fact: John was Simon Bowman’s alternate in Miss Saigon from September 1990 to March 1991, so he actually got to play Chris opposite to Lea’s Kim during her final four months with the show in London (from Sept-Dec 1990).

[@whatdoyousuppose]

Two of my favorite performers! :) :) I have never heard Lea's soprano range, this is lovely! and Barrowman is fantastic as ever!!!

[@jasminetaylor9044]

How the hell did I not know that this video existed before!!???? I absolutely love both of these people!!! And two of my favourite characters: Captain Jack and Éponine :)

[@smc0910]

Great duet! Lea Salonga is an alto, but her high register is just lovely!

[@josefinadelosreyes8869]

What an amazing voice , Bravo

[@olgap35]

Two of my favorite people on this earth singing together?!?! Yes, good...

[@DoctorWhoIsAwesome42]

I've been listening to the Jim Bryant and Marni Nixon version, then this popped up in my recommended list and I was like "Captain Jack in West Side Story!!!"

[@Cynthia1850]

Love, love, love John Barrowman. He needs to do more in America.

[@dianavictoriaaljadeff8949]

The voices are like the original performers on Broadway CarolLawrence and Larry Kert, a light lyric singers. I love this performance.

[@RetroSmoo]

Princess Jasmine and Captain Jack OMG LOl

[@epistaxisgalore]

I searched for John Barrowman broadway and I landed here. Surprise, surprise, it's Lea Salonga and John Barrowman!! Big fan of both! <3

[@TwilightEpiphany]

the two of them have lovely and light voices! a problem i have with performers covering tonight is they don't have the lightness of voice-- tony and maria are very young people with young voices, and should sound like so! i'm not a face of light voices but this is a solid exception

[@davidgeorge8993]

Simply beautiful !! A great song, with wonderful voices, enhanced with a nice collection of their photos. Thank you very much, fine job !!

[@SleepyTenny]

My goodness! These two wonderful people had a performance together? Why did I not know this sooner?! QAQ