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Rosalie Craig and Drew McOnie join WhatsOnStage Awards line-up, Willemijn Verkaik performs 'Let it Go'

The Concert takes place on Sunday at the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre

Rosalie Craig and Willemijn Verkaik
Rosalie Craig and Willemijn Verkaik
© Dan Wooller for WhatsOnStage

The Light Princess star Rosalie Craig and Wicked‘s Willemijn Verkaik have joined the line-up of the WhatsOnStage Awards Concert, which takes place at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday (23 February 2014).

Craig will perform a song from the Tori Amos musical, which is nominated for Best New Musical, and Verkaik will sing the platinum-selling single "Let it Go" from Disney's Frozen, which she performed on German and Dutch versions of the hit animated film.

Other new acts announced today are Drew McOnie's acclaimed dance show Drunk and West End regular Anita Louise Combe, who is joining the tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals.

They join previously announced performers including Michael Xavier and Charlotte Wakefield, Once duo Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić, and I Can't Sing! star Cynthia Erivo.

Also appearing at the Concert, which is hosted by Rufus Hound and Mel Giedroyc, are The Water Babies' Louise Dearman and Lauren Samuels, and musical theatre favourites including Fra Fee (Candide) and Lisa-Anne Wood (Les Miserables).

The 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Concert is directed and devised by Russell Labey, choreographed by Nick Winston, with musical supervision and orchestrations by Tom Deering, lighting by Derek Anderson and sound by Ben Harrison. The general manager is James Mullan, and it is produced by Stuart Piper and Jason Haigh-Ellery.

For further information about the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards and to buy tickets, visit awards.whatsonstage.com

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