Three legendary voices. One iconic stage. A performance like no other at 3pm on Sunday 31 August. GRAVITY.
Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman, and Rachel Tucker have each soared to extraordinary heights on the West End and Broadway stage, captivating audiences with their powerhouse vocals. Now, for one exclusive performance at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, these musical theatre icons unite for GRAVITY – a spectacular celebration of the roles that defined them, the songs that shaped them and the journey that made them stars.
Expect an electrifying afternoon of showstopping anthems, career-defining performances and thrilling surprises, as three of the most celebrated leading ladies in modern musical theatre take flight in a spectacular concert event, set to be the most-anticipated of the summer.
KERRY ELLIS
Kerry is widely recognised as a leading lady of West End and Broadway musicals, with a number of starring roles in London, New York, and around the world. She has achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist signed to both Decca Records and Sony Music.
Kerry originated the role of Meat, in Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ and was the first British Elphaba in the worldwide smash, ‘Wicked’, for which she won the 2008 Whatsonstage.com Award for ‘Best Takeover in a Role’. She then headed to Broadway to play Elphaba at the Gershwin Theater, where she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favourite Female Breakthrough Performance, before returning to London in the role.
Her other leading West End credits include Grizabella in ‘Cats’, Nancy in ‘Oliver!’, Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’, Ellen in ‘Miss Saigon’, Fantine in ‘Les Misérables’, Sara in ‘Murder Ballad’ and Alice in ‘Wonderland’.
In 2022 Kerry played Reno Sweeney in ‘Anything Goes’ at the Barbican to huge acclaim, toured arena’s across the UK with Queen Machine and headlined a huge concert in Japan on their biggest TV network.
LOUISE DEARMAN
Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); Sarah Parker in Mimma (Cadogan Hall), Daisy in Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (UK tour); Elphaba in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Glinda in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Mrs D in the world premiere of The Waterbabies (Leicester Curve Theatre); Soloist in Judy (UK tour); The Woman in Tell Me On A Sunday (International); Eva Peron in Evita (UK tour); Grizabella in Cats (Cyprus); Debbie in Debbie Does Dallas (Edinburgh Festival); Mimi in Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre); Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (UK tour); Jan in Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre and UK tour); Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour).
RACHEL TUCKER
Rachel Tucker’s work in theatre includes The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum (As Myrtle), Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre (As Persephone), Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre (as Norma Desmond), Come From Away in the West End and on Broadway (2019 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical and 2020 WhatsOnStage Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical); Wicked in the West End, on Broadway and as part of the London 10th Anniversary Cast (as Elphaba); Communicating Doors at the Menier Chocolate Factory; The Last Ship at Neil Simon Theatre, New York and Bank of America Theatre, Chicago; Farragut North at Southwark Playhouse, We Will Rock You at the Dominion (As Meat); Wild About You at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; John and Jen (as Jen; 2022 OFFIE Award for Best Lead Performance in a Musical) and Songs for a New World at London Palladium.
