Gary Wilmot’s prowese as a comic actor and stage performer sometimes masks people perception of him as an extremely fine singer. In fact he is one of the best singers with whom I have ever worked. The album we did together originally had the imaginative title “Gary Wilmot, The Album”! it has aslo been released as “Showstopper” essentially the approach we took is very similar to that taken with the production “Stage Heroes” that I recorded with Colm Wilkinson like that album, we chose a couple of songs from each musical represented and recorded it with a big orchestra at Abbey Road studio 1 in face we 3 from the “Wizard of Oz” and that is my favourite of all the medelies we did another favourite is “The Night They Invented Champagne” which was a lot of fun to arrange and record Gary’s voice has magnificent emotional range and can be heard in its almost operatically powerful best on the 2 song from “Carmen Jones”.