John Owen Jones announces a very special Christmas show
03/11/2021
Record-breaking, award-winning West End, Broadway performer and recording artist, John Owen-Jones (Les Miz/Phantom) is releasing a Christmas album this winter, with some traditional Christmas tracks, some personal favourites and two brand new Christmas songs. One has been co-written with Steve Balsamo (Jesus Christ Superstar/The Storys) and also features a previously unheard song from the vaults of the legendary Les Reed (It’s Not Unusual/Delilah) and Bill Martin (Puppet On A String/Congratulations).
To support the upcoming album, John Owen-Jones has announced a very special hometown Christmas show in Ffwrnes Llanelli.
The album also includes a duet with West End and Broadway star Kerry Ellis (Wicked/Cats). The must-have Christmas CD for fans of John’s unique voice!
John says: "I have wanted to record an album of Christmas songs for a very long time and finally found the opportunity to do it this year. I have put together an album full of classic Christmas songs that I love to listen to (and sing!) during the festive season, alongside a couple of not-so-well-known festive tunes that I adore. I can’t wait for people to hear this album and I hope that they love the songs, both old and new, as much as I do - and that after listening, they have a very Merry Christmas!”
Tracklisting:
The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season
That Holiday Feeling (Featuring Kerry Ellis)
Holly Jolly Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Let It Snow/Winter Wonderland
Lullaby For Christmas Eve
A Child's Christmas in Wales
On Christmas Eve
Please Come Home for Christmas Day
Now More Than Ever
Bonus Tracks:
River
May Each Day
Holy Night
Originally from Burry Port in South Wales, John has released 6 studio albums thus far, worked extensively in theatre and has appeared on television, radio and in concerts all over the world.
At the age of 19, John left Wales to study acting at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Since then he has worked as an actor and singer in theatres all over the country in a great number of different shows. However, he is probably best known for his acclaimed record-breaking performances in Boublil and Schonberg’s Les Miserables and in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
He remains the youngest actor in history to have played Jean Valjean in Les Miserables (a role he also played twice on Broadway), was voted the “Best Ever Valjean” and “Best Ever Performer in Les Miserables" by fans of the show worldwide and can be heard as Valjean on the Les Miserables Live! album. His re-interpretation of the character on the re-imagined 25th-anniversary production earned him a Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2010.
He has played The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera nearly 2000 times (more than any actor in the show’s West End history) and was a special guest in the finales for both the Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert events – both seen by a global audience of millions.
He has also appeared many times on television and radio in the UK, has performed solo concerts all over the world and has appeared as a soloist in venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, London, Carnegie Hall, New York and the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. He has released 6 solo albums: Hallelujah (2006), John Owen-Jones (2009), Unmasked (2011), Rise (2015), Bring Him Home (2017) and Music of the Night (Japan-only release 2016). His most recent album Spotlight was released in 2019 and featured The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
“There isn’t a singer-actor quite like John Owen-Jones in British Musical Theatre...his amazing vocal range is... sublime...It’s a voice like no other: creamy and caressing, fierce and fabulous by turns...” - Mark Shenton - theatre critic and associate editor of The Stage newspaper.
Tickets are on sale now. This is a seated show so don't wait around to secure your seat.
