Rebecca Storm – My Life In Music
Date:
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Time:
8pm
Tickets*:
€25, €30 & €33
*Booking fees apply to all online and telephone bookings.
Rebecca Storm – long regarded as Ireland’s Premier Star of West End
Musicals – celebrated her 25 years in show business in 2009, a career
that has spanned performances on every stage of popular music from Top
of the Pops to the West End.
Rebecca has established herself as the First Lady of Irish Musical Theatre – through a string of brilliant performances in
Blood Brothers, Evita and the
Streisand Songbook. Rebecca’s
career will reach new heights in October next when she performs for the
first time in the plush Grand Canal Theatre and in front of the TV
cameras for her first TV special and DVD recording.
From the tender age of two, Rebecca has always loved to sing. After
studying music and drama, she formed her own band and toured England and
Europe singing mainly folk and rock songs. At 23, she auditioned for
her first musical show,
Blood Brothers, and
although a little young to play “Mrs Johnstone” – Liverpudlian Catholic
mother of seven children – the author Willie Russell (
Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita) was so captivated by her voice that he insisted wardrobe and make-up went to work to ‘age’ the young actress.
Gaining rave reviews, Rebecca was capitulated into the world of
musical Theatre, playing some of the most demanding roles ever written
for leading ladies: Eva Peron in
Evita, Fantine in
Les Miserables, Grizabella in
Cats, Florence in
Chess, Rose in
Aspects of Love, Edith Piaf in
Piaf, Joan of Arc in
Jeanne and more…
In 1992, Rebecca devised, Directed and starred in
Hollywood Ladies.
A tribute to her many influences from the silver screen; among them,
Barbara Streisand, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews and Gracie Fields….and
together with a company of fourteen singers and dancers, was awarded
Best Musical Review ’92.
Her recording career began in 1985 with a top 20 single ‘Putting on
the Show’, quickly followed by ‘Mr Love’, the soundtrack from the David
Puttnam film of the same name. Rebecca has been presented awards for her
albums
Ovation, Broadway by Storm and
Ireland by Storm.
On Television, she has enjoyed a wide and varied career, appearing
as Guest on numerous Variety Shows and her own hour-long specials:
‘An Evening with Rebecca Storm’, and ‘
Rebecca and the Cork Opera House’.
She was very proud to be invited to sing for the King of Norway in
Trondheim, at his coronation in 1991 and has performed several times for
the British Royal family.
Over the past ten years, Rebecca has toured all around the World,
selling out in numerous Theatres, including the Glasgow Concert Hall,
The Point Theatre Dublin, The Olavshallen Theatre Norway and many more.
In 2000, she released ‘
I Want to Know What Love Is’ and in 2003
‘Celtic “n” Broadway’,
recording with 60 wonderful musicians, including world renowned soloist
and conducted by the Legendary Harry Robinowitz, (who described Rebecca
as “the girl with the voice of a sexy Angel!”).
Off stage, Rebecca shares her home in the beautiful county of Kildare
Ireland with her partner Kenny Shearer, a musician, arranger,
songwriter and producer, and she is the proudest mum to Becky Roberts
who is a teacher and singer/song-writer.
The Cork Association for Autism is delighted to have been chosen as one of the charities that will benefit from this years ‘A Summer’s Evening on the Quad’ which takes place in UCC on Saturday July 16th.
