Kerry Ellis: Bumpkin to Broadway: With foreword by Brian May

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For fans of music, musical theatre and everything in between, its a thorough and humble insight into the recording artist’s life. The extent of sloppiness in the approach to the language in this book made it unreadable. Towards the end of her story, Kerry mentions that "the viewing public aren't stupid"; it's a shame that her reading public are being treated as if we were. Kerry Ellis is one of the most recognised leading ladies the West End, and she has also achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist signed to Universal Decca, releasing six solo recordings including her acclaimed debut album “Anthems”, which featured guest musicians from Queen, Foo Fighters and The Darkness.

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Image credit: NBC) Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels Is Executive Producing The Half-Hour Comedy Series But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came. In some things you would think them but a few hours old. Look there! that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and a sheath-knife. Here comes another with a sou’-wester and a bombazine cloak. Kerry Ellis: BUMPKIN TO BROADWAY brings all of this to life, first hand and in beautiful and inspiring detail starting with her early life and finishing by looking at times ahead. As the prologue begins describing her performance with Brian May in the Verona Arena, a roman amphitheatre that could fit up to 30,000 citizens in ancient times, Kerry Ellis: BUMPKIN TO BROADWAY shares these experiences for the first time in a truly humbling manner that often is a privilege to read.Fans of not only musical theatre will enjoy this thorough and humble insight into the life and career of one of the UK’s most established performers and recording artists Kerry Ellis.

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Kerry Ellis: Bumpkin to Broadway brings all of this to life in a book that is not just for fans of musical theatre, but for fellow actors and other members of the industry but further than this, the book will be loved by anyone who enjoys live performance. If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford. And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.Kerry Ellis has fast become recognised as the leading lady of West End musicals from her starring roles in London and on Broadway. She has also achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist signed to Universal Decca and has gone onto release six solo recordings in so far including her acclaimed debut album ANTHEMS which featured guest musicians from iconic bands Queen, Foo Fighters and The Darkness. Kerry Ellis is set to release her autobiography this summer (3 August) and I could not be more excited to read it!