''The Magic of the Musicals'' was a UK concert series, produced by Flying Music, that regularly toured the UK in the 1990s and 2000s, initially starring

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and Mark Rattray with Mitch Sebastian, Paul Robinson, Lucie Florentine and Dawn Spence. It was recorded for album release and television broadcast at the

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on 21 June 1992. The album, on CD and cassette, and VHS video was released on 28 September 1992. The show first toured in spring 1991, but its popularity led to a further tour in early 1992 and another in the autumn of that year. It was subsequently repeated with different performers and songs, a number of times. Notably a 30 date tour of Canada and North America playing to sold out Arenas. The cast featured Marti Webb, Mark Rattray, Mitch Sebastian, Ian Mackenzie-Stewart, Alison Pollard and Linda Mae Brewer. Mitch Sebastian was the director / choreographer from 1994 - 1998 creating new formats each season to reflect the current hit shows. Webb performed regularly on all UK and European Tours alongside

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and

Dave Willetts Dave Willetts (born 24 June 1952) is an English singer and actor known for having leading roles in West End musicals. His West End credits include leading roles in ''The Phantom of the Opera'', ''Cats'', ''Ragtime'', ''Les Misérables'', ' ...

. Melanie Stace and

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also replaced Webb for various tours. By 1991, Webb was established as one of the principal musical theatre performers in the UK. Rattray had won the 1990 series of the television

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'' Opportunity Knocks'' with his performance of " Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from the musical ''

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''.

Album

Track listing

Personnel

* Producer - Pip Williams for Handle Artists * Associate Producer - Tom Button * Executive Producers - Paul Walden and Derek Nicol for The Flying Record Company * Live Recording Engineer - John Wilson * Post Production Engineer - Paul Golding * Assistant Engineers - Mark Tucker and James Collins * Original Stage Directors - Hugh Wooldridge and Richard Sampson * Choreographer - Richard Sampson * Replacement Director/Choreographer - Mitch Sebastian * Marti Webb's Manager - Don Black * Mark Rattray's Managers - Lindsey Brown and David Walker for Handle Artists * Album Coordination - Paul Walden and Lindsey Downs * Album Concept - Paul Walden and Derek Nicol * Logo Design - Dewynters * Liner Notes - John Martland

Musicians

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/ Keyboards /

Backing Vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

- Jae Alexander * Keyboards - Dominic Barlow *

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and

Acoustic Guitars An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

- Graeme Taylor *

Bass Guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

- Steve Richardson *

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

- Keith Fairburn *

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

s / Flugels - Avelia Moisey and Lance Kelly *

Alto Sax The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E, smaller th ...

Flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

Clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

- Nick Moss *

Tenor Sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

/ Clarinet /

Bass Clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

- Jenny Tilley *

Oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

Cor Anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

- Deborah Boyes *

Trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

Bass trombone The bass trombone (, ) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to facilitate low register playing, and u ...

- Steve Wilkes *

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

- Sebastian Guard

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Magic of Musicals, The Concert tours of the United Kingdom 1992 live albums Live albums by British artists