One for the Road...

AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

So, I've calmed myself down long enough to tell you about the next project I'll be involved in. Regular readers of this blog will know by now that I get quite excited about most of the work I get to do, what can I say - I love my life.

However, the seemingly alarmed opening to this blog entry should clue you in to just how excited I am about what I'm doing over the summer.

I will be joining what is shaping up to be a Stella cast at the Menier Chocolate Factory this June to be part of the European premier of Steven Sondheim's new Musical "Road Show". New musical theatre is the holy grail as far as I'm concerned and to be in a new Sondheim is a bit like finding the holy grail and then discovering that it's full of Champagne.

I may pass out now. See you all in London Bridge.

Open Up...

In 2008, Curtain Records approached me and asked if I'd be interested in recording an album with them. I said "Of course, lets do it." It is now 2011 and we've finally had time to put together my debut Album entitled "Open Book". We've been working on it for a little while and will be tinkering, polishing and buffing it up until the Summer, you can pre order it right now. Here's the link: http://curtainrecords.co.uk/JR/Jon_Robyns_Pre_Order.html

You can either order it Digitally or Physically and every pre-order will receive an exclusive track I have recorded that won't appear on the album.

"Open Book"'s track list includes numbers from Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Carousel, Into the Woods, The Hired Man and The Light in the Piazza as well as others. Joining me on the album will be star of "Wicked" - Mark Evans and everyone's favourite "Christine" - Gina Beck. There'll be a launch concert in the Summer at which I'll be performing tracks from the album live in the West End. All the info for "Open Book" is on the site above and should you have any questions please feel free to contact me via my site. Thank you in advance to all of you who buy the album now, or in the summer. I couldn't do this without you.

Turning a new Paige...

Feels like a very long time since we were together on this blog readers. If you have joined us from the small bird site, then welcome to the official blog that gets the new project and gig news first.



So, what exciting exclusives do we have for you this time? Well, I think it's exciting anyway. I have been invited to join The First lady of Musical Theatre, Elaine Paige on her forthcoming 2011 tour. I will be singing some classics by myself and supporting EP as she belts out winners as only she can. The tour dates are on the link below:



www.elainepaige.com/on_tour.html



Hope to see some of you there.



Got some great stuff coming up this year. Can't divulge the details fully just yet but, as always, you will know here first. So don't touch that...er....mouse?

Oh yes I am...

Thought I'd post an update on what's coming up after the Les Miserables Tour.

I will be swashing my buckles in Richmond, Surry as Prince Charming in "Sleeping Beauty". So lets all dust off our cynicism and dive crown first into Pantoland! Hoorah.

This will be the 2ND time I've "he's behind you" -ed over the Christmas period and having loved the last festive adventure, I'm really looking forward to this one. Richmond really is one of my favourite places, it's truly gorgeous and I would recommend lazy Sundays there.

I've already had my photo shoot for the publicity (you're gonna love the costume - Blue and gold with my very own cape!)

So book up now. Here's the link and see you there... oh yes I will! Sorry, just getting in some early practice.

www.ffe-uk.com/season/season.aspx?catID=325

A New Promise...

Hi.

So due to the wonder of twitter and my new found love of the app on my phone, my blogging resposibilities have been noticibly wanting over the last few months. I am truly sorry to those of you who only follow this blog and I shall endevour to give more regular up dates on this site in future.

To go someway towards evening the blog vs tweet balance, I came up with a pledge; to only ever announce career updates, gigs or new projects on this site and not on twitter. I shall plug them using the little bird, but never fully disclose the details. A small but important distinction, I feel.

So, Paris baby! Good lord does this city have a vibe. The bustling, the horns, the "je voudrias une grande espresso svp" (please don't correct my French, I am aware how bad it is! C at GCSE speaks for itself).

The theatre is breathtakingly beautiful. More of an opera house look than a playhouse. Lavish gold most places you look and the sound kicks "derair" (again, bad French, leave it). The press has been more important here and ticket sales are starting to amp up. As far as we can tell, the audiences have been very responssive, so we're all good.

Just a quick heads up, thought I should repost my holiday dates. They are:

4th - 6th June.
2nd - 12th July.
5th - 7th August.

We finish the tour at the Barbican in London on 2nd October and (in accordance with the above pledge) our cast has been invited to join the 25th Anniversary concert at the O2 arena on the 3rd October. Very exciting times.

The new me.co.uk

The all new jonrobyns.co.uk will be launched this weekend. The design of this blog should give y'all some indication of how the new site will look.

It'd be great if you could let me know what you think of all aspects of the new site.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

The tour is open in Edinburgh now. More info on that soon.

Check out the misery...

So here is the New Les Miserables video that I've been droning on about for the past few weeks. It's on the Chatelet theatre website, enjoy:

www.chatelet-theatre.com/2009-2010/musicals/les-miserables,423