Michael Colbourne and Lydia Gerrard with a West End Musical Evening at the National Liberal Club…….

Yisha Xue has come up trumps again with her Asia Circle with a sold out house for an exhilarating evening of songs from the shows . Michael standing in at the last minute for an indisposed Carl Man

…..but you never would have known it because he took over with dynamic drive and hypnotic personality as he joined a superb Lydia Gerrard in solos and duets . Performances that brought them a standing ovation with calls for more after their sensational rendering of ‘Tonight’

The hero of the evening was the superb orchestra that Peter Woollard ( ex RAM ,my Alma Mater) provided on the magnificent Steinway that stands in this hall, where Rachmaninov gave his last performance in 1938 before being forced to flee to America where he died five years later.

A scrap of paper with names of songs scribbled on it was all that was needed to ignite this extraordinary evening of Broadway that now comes to the Liberal Club.