Ray Shell
Ray Shell is an African-American film, TV and stage actor, as well as an author, director and producer. He is famous for creating the roles of Nomax in Five Guys Named Moe and Rusty in Starlight Express. He is a Creative Director of the Giant Olive Theatre Company, resident Company at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town.
Career
In 2008, Shell wrote about his appearance in and the closure of the musical Gone with the Wind for The Guardian newspaper. After arriving in London in 1978 with producer Oscar Johnson's Gospel musical Little Willie Jr's Resurrection, Shell immediately became part of London's New Wave music scene recording with Howard Devoto's Magazine, covering Kate Bush's "Them Heavy People". He went on to record with his own band The Street Angels featuring a "pre-Simon Cowell Sinitta, Carl McKintosh and Charita Jones.
Summer 2011, Shell was the performance coach for Adrian Grant's Respect La Diva starring Sheila Ferguson, Zoe Birkett, Katy Satterfield, Denise Pearson and Andy Abraham. In winter 2011, Shell was James Earl Jones' standby in the London West End production of the Broadway hit Driving Miss Daisy, starring Boyd Gaines and Vanessa Redgrave in the title role.
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ALBUMS
- The Premiere Collection Encore released: 1993
- Hits released:
- Music History released:
The Premiere Collection Encore
Released 1993- Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life)
- Love Changes Everything
- Memory
- I Am the Starlight
- Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
- Argentine Melody (Canción de Argentina)
- Oh What a Circus
- Seeing Is Believing
- The Jellicle Ball
- Any Dream Will Do
- Everything's Alright
- Close Every Door
- The First Man You Remember
- Anything but Lonely
- The Point of No Return
- Hosanna
Music History
- Superstar
- Memory
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Heaven on Their Minds
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- Any Dream Will Do
- Love Changes Everything
- The Music of the Night
- I Don't Know How to Love Him
- Variations
- Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
- Pilate's Dream
- All I Ask of You
- By Jeeves
- Take That Look Off Your Face
- Pie Jesu
- Everything's Alright
- Magical Mr. Mistoffelees
- Starlight Express
- Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)
- John Nineteen: Forty-One
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Zdzislaw
by: RishlooI've crawled this corridor once before
to the shadows where it ends
Peeled back all of the paper doors
to remind me where I've been
Seeds to be sown,
who would've known
The balance fractured
this far in
who left this
way open?
Unguarded
paths chosen
all guilty
they stand in judgment of,
those who would travel and
all are guilty
to swing the pendulum,
to eat the temporal
they all know harvest time is coming soon
I hold a fragile light
before faces stone ascend
Luminous for what it's worth
in an amber ragged mist
I left this
way open
I wanted
paths chosen
all guilty
they stand in judgment of,
those who would travel and
all are guilty
to swing the pendulum,
to eat the temporal
we all know harvest time is coming soon
Listen spoke in broken words
To those who would try to hide
Beckoning the Earth to draw you nigh
Make your vendetta of the ground,
sundered ground lover
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