A recording of Waitress star Lucie Jones’ well-received first West End solo concert in February this year will feature on a special deluxe edition of her debut album.
Due for release on 25 September 2020, Lucie Jones – Live At The Adelphi will be available as a standard CD or as a special two-CD package that includes the full concert alongside a bonus interview with Jones and candid rehearsal recordings. Both albums are produced by Live Here Now.
Accompanied by the 22-piece London Musical Theatre Orchestra conducted by Freddie Tapner, the concert Lucie Jones Live at the Adelphi took the rising star back to the theatre where she had been starring as Jenna in the London run of Waitress. The performance at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 16 February was a celebration of the Welsh singer’s career to date and featured special guests John Owen-Jones and Jones’ Waitress co-star Marisha Wallace.
Looking back at the concert, Jones said: “That evening is still a blur – I still cannot believe how lucky I was to get to share those songs with such a warm audience and in such a special place to me. Having spent nine months as Jenna at the Adelphi, it was the weirdest and most wonderful experience to step out on to the stage as just Lucie! I relished every single second, and I’m beyond thrilled that the memory of that night will live on forever in the form of this live album.”
Performances from the evening include the classics ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ (Funny Girl), ‘Summer In Ohio’ (The Last Five Years), as well as ‘She Used To Be Mine’ (Waitress), ‘Into The Unknown’ (Frozen 2), and a new arrangement of Jones’ Eurovision song ‘Never Give Up On You’.
After first finding fame as a finalist on The X Factor in 2009, Jones has steadily built a career as a musical theatre star with roles in the UK tours of Ghost, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer, Les Misérables, and the 2oth anniversary production of Rent.
Jones stepped into the role of Jenna in Waitress in June last year following the departure of London’s original Jenna, Katharine McPhee. The singer who also represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017, took a break from Waitress at the end of January this year while the show’s co-creator and one of Broadway’s ‘Jennas’, Sara Bareilles stepped in to play the role for a limited season. Jones had been due to return to her role in Waitress on 23 March. However, following the theatre shutdown, the producers of the show issued a statement announcing the probable closure of the show unless the production could reopen at Adelphi before 4 July.
Angela Thomas
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