Marti Webb

b. 13 January 1944, Cricklewood, London, Britain. In 1963, vocalist Marti Webb was ‘plucked through the chorus’ from the London creation of Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley’s strike musical Stop the entire world – I WISH TO LOG OFF, to star opposing Tommy Steele within the even more effective HALF OF A Sixpence. Although she had not been selected to recreate her function in the next 1967 film edition, she do dub the performing tone of voice of her substitute, celebrity Julia Foster. Webb performed Nancy within a nationwide tour of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! in 1965, and once again two years afterwards in the main Western world End revival. In the first 70s she made an appearance in another of the in-vogue ‘biblical’ musicals, Godspell, with an excellent cast including Jeremy Irons, David Essex and Julie Covington. She also highlighted within a musical version of J.B. Priestley’s THE NICE Companions, which acquired a rating by André Previn and Johnny Mercer. Far better at all times, was The Credit card, with music by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, where Webb impressed with her duet with Jim Dale on ‘Opposite Your Smile’, as well as the single ‘I MAY BE THE One’. It had been within the 80s that Webb actually found prominence after effectively replacing Elaine Web page in Evita. In 1980 she made an appearance in an asked concert along with a tv broadcast from the ‘music cycle’ Inform Me ON THE Sunday, having a rating by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Don Dark. This spawned both a studio room and tv soundtrack recording, and Webb got among the display’s tracks, ‘Consider That Appear Off Your Encounter’, in to the UK Best 5. 2 yrs later on, when an extended version of Inform Me ON THE Sunday was became a member of with Variations to create the two-part ‘theatrical concert’, Music And Dance, Webb’s 50-minute single efficiency was hailed as a ‘impressive tour de push ’. She also got over various tasks in additional Lloyd Webber productions, including his longest-running English musical, Pet cats. Webb’s singles during this time period included a charity cover edition from the Michael Jackson strike ‘Ben’ (UK Best 5, 1985), and three well-known tv designs: ‘Generally There’ from Howard’s Method (UK Best 20, 1986); ‘Someday Shortly’ in the Onedin Line along with a duet with Paul Jones on ‘I COULD POSSIBLY BE SO EXCELLENT For You’, from Minder. In the first 90s Webb toured the united kingdom as well as the Route Islands using the Magic FROM THE Musicals, co-starring with tv’s Chance Knocks winner, Tag Rattray. Since that time, her various tasks have got included a period executing George Gershwin music at London’s Café Royal together with broadcaster David Jacobs, delivering The Don Dark Tale on BBC Radio 2, showing up in pantomime, a SUMMER MONTHS in Blackpool with Michael Barrymore, and main UK travels of Evita as well as the Neil Simon / Marvin Hamlisch /Don Dark musical, The Goodbye Gal (1997/8, with Gary Wilmot). She also shows up frequently in pantomime.