We awarded 14 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2018 in December – and here we look at the cream of 2019 so far and what’s to come. Getting Married Today (Company) and Tight Connection To My Heart (Girl From The North Country) are previous winners in this category.
- Read on for our top 5 best performances of a song of 2019 so far and our hopes for the next half year
We said: ‘There is a song here, Breaking Down, that is so good and so well performed by Laura Pitt-Pulford that you’ll want to stand and cheer at its conclusion towards the end of the opening half.’
2. Bring Him Home by Alfie Boe from Les Miserables: The Staged Concert at Gielgud Theatre Review Tickets
We said: ‘We enjoyed the recent BBC version of Les Miserables but there was a gaping emotional hole where the songs would have been and Boe’s moving Bring Him Home is especially good here.’
3. I Dreamed A Dream by Carrie Hope Fletcher from Les Miserables: The Staged Concert at Gielgud Theatre Review Tickets
STOP PRESS: Hope Fletcher has been cast as Fantine in Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre from 18/12. Tickets
We said: ‘Hope Fletcher recently starred to much acclaim in the West End transfer of Heathers and here plays doomed single mother Fantine who does justice to arguably the show’s best known song I Dreamed A Dream.’
4. For Every Moment by Frances Barber from MUSIK at Leicester Square Theatre Review
We said: ‘MUSIK deserves a much longer West End run and soon.’
5. The Most Important Thing by Victoria Hamilton-Barritt from The View UpStairs at Soho Theatre Review
We said: ‘Through him we meet a bar full of characters each with a story to tell including construction worker/drag queen Freddy and his inspiring mother, here played by the fabulous Victoria Hamilton-Barritt who doesn’t waste one of the show’s best songs, The Most Important Thing.’
On our radar for the next 3 months are Tokyo Rose (Tickets), Mary Poppins (Tickets), & Juliet (Tickets) and Amelie (Tickets).
