Following the success of her debut album The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein, BBC How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? finalist and West End star Helena Blackman returns with her new solo show ‘Journey to the Past’, a celebration of songs from the wonderful world of classic animated movie music, on a UK tour from January 2012.

‘Journey to the Past’ features songs from films such as ‘Anastasia’, ‘Thumbelina’, ‘The Land Before Time’, ‘The Rescuers’ and ‘An American Tail’, as well as Disney classics including THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, POCAHONTAS and MULAN. Helena takes her audience on a nostalgic journey, allowing them to discover the musical soundtrack of their youth anew.

‘Journey to the Past’ will open at The Peasantry (Chelsea, London) on the 21st January 2012, and then will visit the following venuews: Maidstone Pizza Express (27 enero 2012), Farnham Maltings (28 enero 2012), Southampton Turner Sims (3 febrero 2012), Bath Chapel Arts Centre (4 febrero 2012), Halifax Square Chapel (8 febrero 2012), Stoke-on-Trent Regent Theatre (9 febrero 2012), Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester (10 febrero 2012), New Wimbledon Theatre Studio (11 febrero 2012), Gloucester Guildhall (18 febrero 2012), Birmingham Conservatoire (25 febrero 2012), Aylesbury Waterside Theatre (3 marzo 2012), Epsom Playhouse (8 marzo 2012), Greenwich Theatre (22 marzo 2012), Arts Depot, Finchley (31 marzo 2012), Cardiff Millennium Centre (7 abril 2012) and Redditch Palace Theatre (12 abril 2012).

Having captured the nation’s attention and the unfailing support of Andrew Lloyd Webber on the BBC’s ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’, Helena headlined the acclaimed UK tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, and starred in the West End première of Stephen Sondheim’s SATURDAY NIGHT.

Helena recently toured the UK as a guest artist with number one charting classical singer Jonathan Ansell and performed an evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs at the prestigious Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall.

Helena Blackman: Journey to the Past is produced by Speckulation Entertainment.