Helena Blackman
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 on Speckulation 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)