A Bridgnorth actress has made her West End debut in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit show the Sound Of Music.
Rebecca Davies, who works under the stage name Rebecca Lucie, joined the cast at the London Palladium as understudy for the part of Liesl, the eldest of the Von Trapp children.
Family and friends are planning to go and see 24-year-old Rebecca perform as the 16-year-old daughter of Captain Von Trapp next month, when she steps in for the weekend of November 10.
The former Bridgnorth Endowed School pupil trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, graduating in July 2006 with a BA (Hons) in Performance (musical theatre option).
Before joining The Sound Of Music Rebecca played Cinderella in pantomime for Paul Holman Associates and has also performed at the Royal Opera House and Covent Garden, with both the Bolshoi and La Scala ballet companies.
While at college, some of Rebecca’s roles included Maria in West Side Story, Kristine in A Chorus Line, Lowbutt/Maggie Pie in Honk!, Cordelia in King Lear and Susie in Abandonment.
Her other theatre includes a workshop production of Raindogs for Andrew MacBean and The Sound Of Music is her West End debut.
Shropshire actress Sophie Bould, a former pupil of St Dominic’s School in Brewood, who previously had the role of Liesl in The Sound Of Music stepped down last month.
She joined the show when it began in November last year and had to sing one of the show’s biggest songs, Sixteen Going On Seventeen.
Sophie, 24, also stepped in to play Maria when Connie Fisher, winner of the BBC1 talent contest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? had to cut her performances due to illness.
The Sound Of Music has been a great success with audiences.
One review said: “I left with a spring in my step and a soppy smile on my face. Suddenly the world seemed a brighter place”
“A show that restores one’s battered faith in human nature.”
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