Wedged between Take That and Susan Boyle is the billing “Russell Watson & The Royal Ballet”. It turns out to be a performance by Lauren Cuthbertson and Nehemiah Kish, principals from the Royal Ballet, who will perform new choroegraphy by the Royal Ballet’s Alastair Marriott while Russell Watson sings Parla più piano, aka the love theme from The Godfather.
The show will be broadcast on BBC1 on Thursday 16th December at 8pm.
Photo: © Johan Persson
Alyssa says
6 January 2011 at 16:34PLEASE PUT A COPY OF THIS PERFORMANCE ON YOUTUBE!!!! (Cuthbertson and Kish on the Royal Variety Performance)
It was so incredible and by not putting it up you are depriving dancers everywhere!