Loren
is BBC Radio 2's Voice of Musical Theatre 2002
American
Loren Geeting was last night (Sunday 3 November) named BBC Radio
2's Voice of Musical Theatre 2002.
Loren,
33, wowed audiences and the judges with his bold selection of songs
including Piece of the Action from the musical Life and Proud Lady
from The Baker's Wife.
But
he brought the house down with his version of A Bit Of Good from
Chicago, a part normally sung by a woman.
Loren,
who trained at the Royal College of Music, has performed in both
opera and musical theatre, and played the Phantom of the Opera when
that musical went on national tour.
No
stranger to the West End, he has also played Gaston in Beauty and
the Beast and Boone in Whistle Down The Wind.
Loren
wins a £10,000 cash prize and the chance of recording with
the BBC.
And
BBC Radio 2 controller Jim Moir has already promised to fulfil Loren's
ambition of appearing on Friday Night Is Music Night.
Loren
pipped five other finalists, chosen after a gruelling week of preliminary
rounds and semi-finals, to win the title.
Judges
included Peter Polycarpou, whose face is well known as the husband
of Sharon (Pauline Quirke) in BBC ONE's Birds of a Feather but who
was in the original cast of Les Miserables and appeared in Oklahoma
and Miss Saigon; star of stage and screen Julia McKenzie; Lewis
Carnie, an executive producer at Radio 2; internationally renowned
vocal coach Mary Hammond; record producer Nicky Graham and conductor
David Charles Abell.
Highlights
from the final, hosted by Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce, can be heard
in Showtime Wales on BBC TWO Wales and the digital service BBC 2W
on Monday 3 November from 7.30pm.
Notes
to Editors
Final
six line up to be BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre 2002
(01.11.02 )
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