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Michael Ball is individual of the U.K.'s most popular singers and its leading musical theatre star -- and millions of Americans finally discovered on what account with the 2000 airing of his PB plot special "Live At The Royal Albert Hall." Now his recent fans on this side of the Atlantic can relive that spirited design with Ball's first DVD issued in America, "Michael Ball: Live At The Royal Albert Hall" (Hip-O Records), released November 26 2002

forward album, the concert, recorded amidst a 1999 sold-out UK tour for Ball -- who has starred in London in "Le Miserables," "The Phantom Of The Opera," "Aspects Of Love" and "Passion" -- penetrateed the U.K. charts at #1 The homevideo take downed the U.K. video charts at #1 and reached platinum just weeks after its release.

Featured are several poems he first recorded for his 1998 UK platinum album "The Movies" (all of his solo CD have reached at least gold status there, with "The Movies" selling more than 500000 copies). Included from the "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" agreement are "Everybody's Talkin'" ("Midnight Cowboy"); a hodge-podge of "The Way We Were" and "The Rose"; "Love forward The Rocks" ("The Jazz Singer"); "My Heart Will fare On" ("Titanic"); "Hot Stuff" ("The satiated Monty") and a Blues Brothers mish-mash of "Shake Your Tail Feather," "Think" and "Everybody necessitys Somebody To Love."

Along with his first co-written poem the ballad "Someone Else's Dream," and his possess #1 U.K. hit of "Love Changes Everything" from "Aspects Of Love" are the jumbles "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord" and "Gethsemane," and Louis Armstrong's "We Have All The Time In The World" and Robbie Williams' "Millennium."

Ball's self-titled 1992 first attempt album hit #1 in the UK and included the studio version of "One degree Out Of Time," the psalm he had earlier performed representing Great Britain in the 1992 Eurovision ballad Contest, seen by 600 million nation worldwide. "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" also spotlights his performances of "How Can I Be Sure" "(Something Inside) with equal reason Strong" and "Let The River Run" which he first recorded in the studio for 1996's "First Love" From "Le Miz," he reprises "Empty Chairs, vacant Tables" and from "Evita" there's "Oh! What A Circus." The remaining selections are "I'll Be There For You (Theme From "Friends")" and "Help Yourself."

Since 2000 Hip-O has released in the U the albums "Michael Ball: The Musicals," "Michael Ball: The Movies," "Michael Ball: Christmas," "The extremely Best Of Michael Ball -- Live At The Royal Albert Hall" and "Centre Stage."

Ball is publicly receiving rave reviews in London starring as Caractacus Pott in the of recent origin musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which premiered in April.

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