West End Live 2013

[porschesrule]

The annual West End LIVE, a weekend of free entertainment from West End productions and performers, returns to Trafalgar Square June 22-23 and BETMUK will once again perform at the show according to Playbill:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/17 ... June-22-23

[porschesrule]

Alan Mehdizadeh, who plays Big Davey in BETMUK, tweeted this:

"Billy Elliot will be onstage at 11.50 on Saturday 22 June at @WestEndLIVE in Trafalgar Square! Come down, see us, book tickets, see us more!"

https://twitter.com/alanmehdizadeh

Here's the complete West End Live 2013 schedule:

http://www.westendlive.co.uk/

[Dancer]

According to an article I read at the weekend there will be a taster of West End Live at a special free lunchtime preview at Cardinal Place, Victoria, at 12.30pm on Wednesday 19th June on a special stage in the roof garden at the top of the escalators. Acts scheduled to perform include Billy Elliot, Wicked and Spamalot.

[KeefyM]

and here is confirmation of the event in Cardinal Place tomorrow (Wednesday 19th June)

http://www.cardinalplace.co.uk/News-Eve ... erformance

[porschesrule]

From this picture posted on the BETMUK public Facebook page, looks like a great crowd and great weather for today's event at Cardinal Place:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

As the crowd watched newest London Billy Ali Rasul do his stunning version of Electricity representing the BETMUK cast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1YfdkXT9zQ

[KeefyM]

[quote="porschesrule"]From this picture posted on the BETMUK public Facebook page, looks like a great crowd and great weather for today's event at Cardinal Place:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Oh god, see if you can spot certain Forum members in the picture who were in attendance at Cardinal Place this afternoon
It certainly was a great crowd (busiest I've seen this event) and the weather was fantastic.

After Sam's brilliant video above here is my rubbish and shaky iPhone video of Ali's Street Electricity performance at the West End Live Warm Up Event in Cardinal Place, Victoria this afternoon (Wednesday 19th June), offering a full stage view. Unfortunately, my fingers yet again make an appearance across the screen at times (haha), as my arms were in agony holding up the phone to record the video and I was sweating like a pig because for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to wear a jumper on a hot, sunny day!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaJP30P5FM

Cheers,
Keefy

[DenP]

A few quick shots of today's rehearsals at Trafalgar Square. Was happy to see that there will be the same routine as last year: a medley with a large cast and Redmand and Zach on Saturday and Electricity with Harrison on Sunday.

[Billy Whiz]

Thanks for the great photos. I just wish I could get to this event one year.

[KeefyM]

Here are a couple of YouTube video's of the BETM performance at West End Live in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 22nd June 2013, with Redmand, Zach, Anna-Jane Casey, the Ballet Girls and the Ensemble.

Lookout for the fail of Anna-Jane Casey's mic during 'Shine'.

First video is by Samar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLrP7KaP8TE

and the second rather shaky video is by me
I could have killed the bald headed bloke who appears bottom right throughout most of the video as I had a perfect view from the second row and the only two shows he decided to stand up for to take photographs in the press pit were Wicked and Billy - Aargh, hence why I once again had to hold my camera up high to try and avoid him and avoid the silly woman in front of me who decided to jump about at the start as well trying to avoid the people bashing into me looking to get a better view.
Anyway, here is the video and think of it as the Teaser Trailer to the better videos like Samar's and others that will follow on YouTube in the next few days or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shjFBHAk3wo


Cheers,
Keefy

[DenP]

Working hard processing all photos from today's performances and still testing my new camera, but here a small preview of BETM's performance today. great performance by all, I enjoyed it very much. Looking forward to tomorrow's performance.

Link to full series will follow later this week.