i don’t know exactly the date yet but hey maybe its public event so for those of you who can see the show and meet them, enjoy and post about it on the forum

http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/787005/Golden-Goose-promote-Vietnamese-UK-festival
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1276467/golden_goose_to_promote_vietnamese_uk_festival/

Golden Goose to promote Vietnamese UK festival

A Vietnamese newspaper has hired Golden Goose PR to support a large-scale celebration of Vietnam’s culture in London.

National daily paper Thanh Nien has brought in the publicity firm to drum up interest in next month’s Charming Vietnam Gala, which will include a concert at Westminster City Hall and a cultural festival. Platinum-selling Asian pop stars and Eastern beauty pageant winners have also been invited to participate.

Golden Goose co-founder Miki Watson described the festival as ‘Olympic scale’. The agency has secured the involvement of UK Theatreland ‘supergroup’ Teatro, who will join Vietnamese sopranos on stage.

The event coincides with the 21st anniversary of the end of Doi Moi, Vietnam’s glasnost, and will see Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung make his first official UK state visit in 15 years. The Doi Moi reforms saw Vietnam’s ruling Communist party encourage free-market enterprises for the first time.

mods please feel free to move it if it isn’t in the right place
-Amelia-

Ohhh thanks for posting Amel

Kinda sounds like a non-public event,but you never know
with these things...sounds like a really exciting event for
Teatro to be involved in anyway…

Unfortunately the event has already happened.

Charming Vietnam Gala to tour UK

At the Charming Vietnam Gala in Singapore last year.

Nhan Dan Online-The 20th Charming Vietnam Gala will be organised in London, UK for the first time on March 4 and 5 at Central Hall Westminster.

The organisers – the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Thanh Nien newspaper- said the show will have the participation of a large number of Vietnamese famous singers, artists and model who will give performances imbued with national identity and the contemporary inspiration.

Apart from Vietnamese music stars including My Linh, Thanh Lam, Hong Nhung, Quang Dung, Phuong Thanh, Dam Vinh Hung and Duc Tuan, the show will also see the special appearance of pianist Bich Tra and First Runner up at Miss Vietnam World Teressa Sam who both are now living and working in the UK and Miss Vietnam World Ngo Phuong Lan from the Switzerland.

Particularly, the gala will also have the participation of the renowned UK supergroup, Teatro, the stars of London’s theatrical West End and two violinists Rebecca Knight and Dominica Anna Rosiek.

There will be performances of some unique Vietnamese musical instruments like dan bau (monochord) by Hai Phuong and dan da (stone xylophone) by Do Loc.

Beauty queens and famous models like Truong Ngoc Anh, Mai Phuong Thuy and Pham Thi Thanh Hang will don the ao dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) on the catwalk.

According to the organisers, the Charming Vietnam Gala will be a major Vietnamese cultural event, making a contribution to promoting Vietnamese’s image around the world.

They also revealed that more than 24 UK media outlets and a number of magazines published by various international airlines have noted this large Vietnamese show in London.

The ticket prices for the 2000 seat Central Hall Westminster in London are expected at £75; £100 and £150. Further information can be found at http://www.charmingvietnamgala.com.

Previous galas of this kind also toured to Australia three years ago and Singapore last year.

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/270208/culture_ch.htm

whaa redorbit submitted the article on march 1 and announced that the festival will be held next month.. sorry for late info.. anyway here are the links about vietnam gala

http://english.cinet.vn/DefaultArticleDetail.aspx?zoneid=10&newsid=1747
Gala charms with a mix of old and new

British vocal quartet Teatro added a lovely version of “Can You Feel The Love Tonight.” One of the Brit vocalists said the Vietnamese models in the traditional Vietnamese ao dai dresses were the most delightful part of the show.

The first night did not really go as “smooth as silk” as the show’s producer and Thanh Nien Editor-in-Chief Nguyen Cong Khe had promised.

For example, Pianist Bich Tra addressed a mostly Vietnamese audience in English without rephrasing herself in Vietnamese.

But for every awkward moment there was a performer ready to make things ok again, like when Teatro greeted the crowd in Vietnamese.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=36126
-Gala to become cultural ambassador-

Khe said when the British band Teatro discovered the show was to raise fund for poor students, they lowered their usual performance fee.

http://www.openmagazine.co.uk/performance/a-charm-offensive.htm

A Charm Offensive

Singer Andrew Alexander from quartet Teatro – who specialise in musical theatre songs with a twist – is riding high on the popular zeitgeist. Not only is musical theatre having an all-singing, all-dancing moment, with TV shows such as How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria; Any Dream Will Do and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s recent foray into Hollyoaks, alerting the masses to Teatro’s brand of music ( they’ve been called Theatreland’s First Supergroup ) but he’s also part of the growing East/ West cultural exchange. The group are performing at next week’s Charming Vietnam Gala ( singing solo and with three Vietnamese sopranos) two nights of spectacular performance, song and fashion from some of that country’s top artists. The Gala – in the company of Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung in his first visit to this country in 15 years - comes at a time when the UK is in the throes of China Now, a series of exhibitions and events in the run-up to the Bejing Olympics. And, is further proof that the arts can - and should - not only blur boundaries between genres but cross international borders to discover new inspiration, collaborations and influences. We caught up with him:

You must be chuffed to be performing at the Gala.
Yes, it’s great to be invited. I spent my gap year after university in Vietnam, and really loved it.

And you’re doing your bit for East/ West relations..
It sounds a bit of a tired cliché, but the arts do cross boundaries.
Because the group ( Stephen Rahman- Hughes, Andrew, Jeremiah James and Simon Bailey ) sing musical theatre songs we’re pretty international as everyone knows them. Audiences from China to South America and Hungary can sing along.

And, here, musical theatre is having a rennaisance…
With all the TV shows it’s increasingly popular, which is great for us and for the West End, as there are far more people going to the theatre now.

Were you ever tempted to audition for one of these reality shows?
No, because I was already performing in the West End, But I don’t think they’re necessarily a bad thing. I know Lee ( the winner of Any Dream Will Do ) and he’s a great performer. If these programmes are turning out people like him then they can only be good.

How did you get into musical theatre?
I saw a DVD of Les Miserables when I was 16 and that inspired me to get into it. I’d done Choral singing at school, then after Uni went to the Royal College of Music.

You released your first album in November which has been really well received…
I’ve got a nice plaque on my wall to say that we’ve sold 100,000 copies.

So now you’re promoting it, and touring?
Yeah, the highlight so far was performing at the Royal Variety Show, where we met the Queen.

What did she say to you?
That she enjoyed the show, and, as it was in Liverpool, said we must have had quite a journey to get there!

And I’m sure you have lots of other female fans?
We do have some keen supporters. We turned on the Christmas Lights in Marylebone last year, and two German girls flew over specially to see us. And we’ve had knickers thrown at us on-stage.

That’s not something you see every day in the West End.  But, touring can be gruelling as well as fun..
We’re used to it. We’ve all trained so it’s OK.

What are your tips for keeping your voice ship-shape? I’ve heard that you should avoid dairy and eat apples.
Exactly; apples are good for your voice, and dairy clogs up the throat. Also inhaling steam from boiling water is really good. And you have to warm up before you sing.
Loma-Ann Bonner

and another articles in vietnam language (which i don’t understand it ) but i believe the articles will be great promotion for teatro in vietnam

http://saigon.vnn.vn/read.php?id=19535
http://saigon.vnn.vn/read.php?id=19810
http://www.sgtt.com.vn/detail47.aspx?ColumnId=47&newsid=30682&fld=HTMG/2008/0226/30682
http://vietbao.vn/Van-hoa/Teatro-nhung-chang-trai-hat-nhac-kich/45272241/181/
http://beta.baomoi.com/Home/GiaiTri/AmNhac/www.thanhnien.com.vn/Andrew_Alexander_voi_duyen_no_Viet_Nam/1433864.epi
http://web.thanhnien.com.vn/Vanhoa/2008/2/19/226563.tno

Thanks Amel, that was a great read!  Nice picture too.

Own up, who threw the knickers!!!