JAMES GRAEME - Clyde Gabriel
James Graeme studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music.
He was a founder member of the internationally acclaimed singing group,Wall Street Crash, and went on to appear in a number of West End musicals including the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. He created the role of Boone in Whistle Down the Wind at the Aldwych Theatre and Father Marshall in Out of the Blue at the Shaftesbury Theatre. He played Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Lyceum Theatre, and has also performed in productions of Candide (title role), Chicago, Company and South Pacific. He appeared as Walter in the award-winning Danish production of Chess, he played Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet at the Piccadilly Theatre and most recently appeared as George Dillingham in the UK national tour of Aspects of Love.
James has taken part in several Royal Variety Performances at the London Palladium, and has made guest appearances on Friday Night Is Music Night, Round Midnight and Nightride for Radio 2. He is a soloist with West End the Concert, performing in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Vilnius and Jerusalem, and at the Barbican Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra. He performed in Something Wonderful featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Savoy Theatre, London and was invited to Kiev, Ukraine, to feature in a concert of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. For Danish TV he played the part of Athos in a new musical version of The Three Muskateers. James was one of the soloists in Sondheim First and Last, transmitted on BBC Radio 3 last Christmas. This was followed by a series of concerts in Estonia, Helsinki and London performing in Another Kind of Magic, featuring the music of Queen and as Frank Sinatra in the hit review Frank and Friends. He recently created the role of Sergeant Pepper/Devil in Beatlemania at the Gothenburg Opera House.