Ahead of the release of his 19th solo album ‘If Everyone Was Listening’ on Monday 17th November, Michael Ball today announces a spring 2015 tour. Michael will play the Brighton Centre on Tuesday 14th April 2015 with tickets, priced at £40, available to purchase from 9am on Friday 31st October.
For more than 25 years Michael has been at the top of his game starring in musical theatre productions in the West End and on Broadway winning critical acclaim, a devoted following and awards for his stage work and recording career. November 2014 will see the release of his latest album ‘If Everyone Was Listening’, featuring 15 tracks chosen by Michael to include a mix of individual classics, award winners and contemporary songs spanning the years 1960 to 2013.
Michael made his West End debut as Marius in the original London cast of Les Misérables and since then, has starred in West End productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and on Broadway, in the London production of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion. In 2005 he performed on Broadway as Count Fosco in The Woman in White, which transferred from London’s West End and, in the same year, made his New York City Opera debut as Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. In 2007 he made his debut with the ENO as Haj/The Poet in Kismet.
In 2008 Michael made box office history at the Shaftesbury Theatre with his Olivier Award winning performance as Edna Turnblad in the smash hit musical Hairspray which he then took on tour across the UK throughout 2010. During August of that year he made his debut as a chat show host on ITV 1’s ‘The Michael Ball Show’ and in December he made his debut as a West End co-producer with the musical theatre production of ‘Love Story’ (Duchess Theatre). In 2013 Michael won Best Actor in a Musical from Whatsonstage.com and his second Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his critically acclaimed lead role in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Chichester and Adelphi/West End).
Michael has a hugely successful radio broadcasting career which includes his own show, Sunday Night with Michael Ball. He is also a popular TV presenter and is a regular guest presenter on Lorraine, This Morning and more. He recently completed shooting the Victoria Wood BBC TV film, ‘That Day We Sang’ with Imelda Staunton.
Tickets for Michael’s full national tour go on sale at 9am on Friday 31st October – priced £45 in London and Birmingham and £40 in all other regions (subject to per-ticket charge plus order processing fee) – from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk. For the Brighton date tickets are also available from the Brighton Centre Box Office on 0844 847 1515 or at www.brightoncentre.co.uk.