Cynthia Erivo announces intimate London Concert

The fabulous Cynthia Erivo has been wowing audiences in The Color Purple on Broadway for the last eighteen months receiving  a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Celie. She is about to head for Hollywood to start filming new Lynda La Plante movie Widows, but has just announced that she is returning to London later this month for a one off concert accompanied by solo piano titled Hey, It's Been Some Time  on 29th January in candlelit  Shoreditch Town Hall.  Tickets go on sale at 09:00 today and booking will  end on January 29th at 9:30 pm. Her last concert in September 2015 sold out very quickly so move fast if you want to go!

 

Cynthia Erivo heading for Hollywood in new Lynda La Plante movie Widows

The uber talented Tony Award winner and star of Broadway's "The Color Purple", Cynthia Erivo, is to join Viola Davis in a brand new big-screen version of the popular Lynda La Plante series Widows, which was a hit on ITV in 1983. It  is set to be directed by Oscar-winning film-maker Steve McQueen, whose 12 Years A Slave won the best picture Academy and BAFTA awards. He will also write the screenplay with "Gone Girl" author, Gillian Flynn.

It is  about the wives of a bunch of gangsters who, after their four husbands are killed in a car crash during a failed robbery attempt subsequently join forces to carry out the heist they  had been planning.  Erivo will play Belle: a widowed mother-of-two who works as a dental technician.

Erivo leaves the Color Purple on 8th January (when it closes) and after a short break starts work on Widows in Chicago.

She  said she thought McQueen’s offer was a gag. ‘I said I’d love to play the role — fantastic! But can he (McQueen) see the show, so I know that it’s not, like, a joke! To be offered a role, without having to read for it, is just crazy! And awesome.’

Cynthia Erivo is a multiple award-winning actress who has starred on West End and Broadway stages. She  made her Broadway debut reprising her starring role as 'Celie' in the  revival of The Color Purple which she first played in 2013 at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. She played  'Puck' in the Liverpool Everyman production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Nick Bagnall and in  2014, returned to her classical roots in the Donmar Warehouse's  all-female production of Henry IV directed by Phyllida Lloyd. In that same year she played the lead in  Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Dessa Rose at Trafalgar Studios.

Other theatre credits include the  Perfect Pitch musical, Lift,  Kneehigh Theatre's production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Gielgud Theatre;'Deloris Van Cartier' in the UK tour of Jerry Zaks' production of Sister Act; I Can't Sing, Harry Hill and Simon Cowell's  musical, at the London Palladium.  Erivo  is also an accomplished songwriter, having written the song, "Fly Before You Fall," for the 2014 feature film Beyond the Lights. In March 2015, she made her solo concert debut with the show entitled "Hear My Soul" at Kings Place in London.

Special Guests announced for Cynthia Erivo Farewell Concert

The amazingly  talented West End star Cynthia Erivo is to play a final farewell concert at the Hippodrome Casino on 21st September before she leaves for Broadway to reprise her role of Celie in The Color Purple  with Jennifer Hudson in November.

She will be joined by a handful of special guests  including Sam Bailey, Alison Jiear, Tyrone  Huntley and  Dean John Wilson in an evening that "promises to be a goodbye party not to miss".

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Cynthia Erivo Hear My Soul Concert

Updated 5th March: I know this concert is pretty much sold out, but if you have been fortunate enough  to get a ticket you might be interested to hear that according to Baz in today's Mail Cynthia will be performing  three of her own compositions, including the very beautiful Fly Before You Fall, a track from the film Beyond The Lights, plus a brand new number called Thankful. She won’t be singing just musical theatre classics and there will be some Aretha Franklin and John Legend, plus  two numbers from the musical Dreamgirls, including And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.Sounds like an amazing evening!

For just one night the fabulous Cynthia Erivo (Sister Act, I Can't Sing, Dessa Rose,The Color Purple) appears in her first  solo concert in the beautiful surroundings of Kings Place Concert Hall, York Way,  King's Cross on  Monday 9th March 2015 at 8:30 p.m.

With her  five piece band, Cynthia will perform a mixture of her own original songs, soulful classics and  musical theatre showstoppers.

She said: "This is my very first solo concert. Here I mix the old with the new, unheard songs and songs you know and love. It is a night, quite simply that is full of love and music,"

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Scott Alan & Cynthia Erivo Home Again concerts

Scott Alan & Cynthia Erivo will be performing  Home Again at the St James's Studio from 4th-6th May 2015.

AInternational composer Scott Alan (Home; Dreaming Wide Awake) & Evening Standard and What’s On Stage Award Nominated West End Star Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple; I Can’t Sing, Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse) will join forces for  three special concerts at the St James Studio as part of the 2015 London Cabaret Festival.

 Erivo is singing songs from Alan’s songbook, including  favourites from his six album releases (Dreaming Wide Awake; Keys; What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up; LIVE; Anything Worth Holding on To & Greatest Hits; Volume One) as well as from his upcoming West End Musical HOME.

Each night will host different special guests to be announced at a later date that will join Alan & Erivo to sing the work of Scott Alan.

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