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  • Rachel is amazing <3 wish I could have seen her as Meat, saw her as Elphaba 4 times though and she's sensational!!!

  • Wow, just wow. Rachel Tucker. <3

  • yes rachels very good but you cant get better than kerry in this role!

  • Iadore this woman, if you havnt seeher in Wicked, its a must ;) this is such a beautiful song, sung beautifully by both Rachel and Kerry!

  • I think 3 people missed the like button :/

  • Beautiful. Not as powerful as Kerry though. When I saw Kerry playing Meat, she blew me away and I sobbed, just because of the emotion she put into this song. I'll never forget that.

  • wow, just wow!!! She gives her all in every role and performance she plays/gives!!! I completely love her voice!! Beautiful <3 amazing elphaba as well ;)

  • @unidan82 No i'm not talking about meatloaf, i'm talking about scaramouche :)

  • @DuckyLemurxXx but Rachel is not in We Will Rock You any more and hasnt been for about 3 years.

  • @unidan82 correction, 2 years

  • 01:33 I saw her as Scaramouche last month :)

  • @DuckyLemurxXx uh no you didn't.

    that would be Rachel Johns

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  • Rachel Tucker has the most amazing voice, ever.

  • This is amazing!!!

  • THIS is pure talent!!

  • Does anyone have a clip of her singing Somewhere over the Rainbow?

  • @crazysquirrel7 why would she be singing that?!

    If you search Rachel Tucker audition she did it for her NANCY audition?

  • @unidan82 She was in a production of the Wizard of Oz as Dorothy in 2007 and I was wondering if anyone had seen it or gotten an audio from it...

  • What are the pictures of her in the yellow dress from?

    OMG Rachel is soo good! I love her so much!

  • @crazysquirrel7

    Her Nancy colour was YELLOW on 'I'd Do Anything?'

  • @unidan82 Thanks! Was that like a British contest to find the best Nancy to play Oliver! or something?

  • @crazysquirrel7 ....yes?

  • when she was singing this song yesterday in the dominion everyone was instantly silent and when it was fisnished everyone jumped out of their seats and gave ger a 2 minute applause!!!!

  • @spaagerken uhhhh what?

    why would Rachel be singing this in the Dominion?

    she's not in this show anymore, do you mean the current Meat?

  • @unidan82 yeah she played meat

  • @unidan82 you may have meant Rachel John who is currently in the role, but there are no videos of her

  • It seems that Kerry Ellis isn't the only one that can kick this song's ass (and I'm a Kerry fanatic!)... This is amazing! x

  • it seems to me that playing Elpheba is like the highest point a vocalist of this type could reach? Every other part seems mediocre to me...

  • Listening to this makes me feel really sad I didn't get to see the show with her in. It's hard to judge on an audio recording but I really think if I'd seen this I would have preferred her as Meat to Kerry Ellis.

  • By FAR my favorite Meat!!

  • Love Rachel!!!

  • Rachel's sort of taking over everything Kerry Ellis has done haha

    first Meat then Elphaba, next would be Nancy, surely not though?

    think the BBC Producers would be a little annoyed haha xx

  • @Beki08

    well they have had aoife as maria, and craig and i think lewis as Joseph, so I don't think the BBC would mind at all. -

    however... from Meat to Elphaba to Nancy is SUCH a step down

    - i personally can't see why Kerry would go from playing Elphaba on Broadway to playing Nancy, unless it's a role she's always wanted.

  • @unidan82 are you actually taking the piss?! how is nancy a step down?! oliver is such a great westend show! with such amazing music. you cannot say that one show is better than another! they all give different styles to the westend! your narrow minded views on the theatre are wrong tbh - for a theatre fan. you may not enjoy kerrys voice but you cannot judge thousands of her follows for enjoying it. EVERYONES DIFFERENT. i think you have to realise that.

  • @unidan82 and another thing! i dont see rachel tucker bringing out her own album? or having actual west end composers CHANGER their music to fit that album! rachel is amazing i dont disagree i lover her also! but you say someone as huge as kerry is over-rated?! thats just preposterous! kerry has achieved such amazing things. probably more than rachel will.

  • @thomasdevinex change*

  • @unidan82 Nancy is a good role though. Arguably the best roll in Oliver (except maybe bill sykes)

  • I think I actaully prefer this version to Kerrys "/

    Please don't kill me :)

  • @confusedasalways75

    hehe well i won't disagree, i've never thought that much of Kerry, i find her quite overrated.

  • @unidan82 she is hardly over rated, seeing as she has been in so many great LEADING roles. kerry and rachel are different in many aspects of theatre. im a huge rachel fan and a huge kerry fan. i wish people would stop comparing them and just listen to them as individuals. after all you can only be as good as YOU are you cant be as good as another. !!

  • @thomasdevinex

    how was I comparing them?! ?!?

    people are so funny about others having a less than glowing point of view of Kerry.

    In my personal taste I don't enjoy her voice, i know she is very talented and has rightly had some great roles, but the amount people rave about her I think is excessive.

  • eek seeing rachel next weekend in wicked at the apollo I cant wait!

  • She's now Elphaba in London, she also my lecturers friend :D

  • Just realised this is the most watch Rachel Tucker video on youtube! this makes me happy! :) loving your work Miss Tucker

  • Having only heard Kerry in a recording or on her album i dont think its fair for me to compare Rachel or Louise or Amanda to her, however I do think Rachel is my favourite Meat out of the latter 3 who i have seen, then Amanda Coutts (US Scara and Meat) and then Louise, she is the only one who hasnt made me cry when singing this song.

  • She is AMAZING as Elpaba!! I was there for her opening night and i got goosebumps every time she sang! and Lewis Bradley as Fieyro...fantastic!!

  • seems she is follwing very much in Kerry Ellis's choice of roles and management lol...She is very good though...the best off that show

  • she was my favourtite off the talent show....Seems like she is very much following Kerry Ellis in her choices of role...

  • @MsLILUN haha she'll be the next nancy in oliver! :P x

  • filmed on my birthday :) beautiful voice, beautiful girl x

  • CONGRATUALTIONS to Rachel - the new Elphaba in WICKED in the West End! :) :)

  • omg i don't know if this is true but i heard she might be playing elphaba in the new london cast

  • omg i doubt it but that would be frickin AMAZING!

  • There are so many rumours about that, and there have been for quite a while now. Most are claiming they're true now so only time will tell :)

  • truth.

  • @operastar1994 She Defenetly Is :D

  • @operastar1994 yup ;)

  • Rachels really good but kerry ellis and louise bowden are a lot better =]

  • this video does her no justice! :P she's absolutely AMAZING, went to see her second-last matinee & it was defo the best version of this song i've heard. i love her! :) <3 xx

  • completely agree!

    i saw her in april.. she was absolutely stunning!

  • This is the best version I have heard of this song.

    Rachel is absolutely amazing!!!!!! :)

  • Boozybird, try listening to the Toronto version @ qQLLYj2lfpM and you may change your mind

  • I still think Rachel's is the best. But thank you for the link.

  • i totally agree that the toronto version is better then this!but this version is alreight...not bad!

  • is the we will rock you 2009 tour version on youtube anywhere? by georgina hagen?

  • i saw it september 3 last week. was she doing meat? xD

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  • I have 3 front row tickets to rachel`s last show 12th september for sale because i cant go =(

  • I saw her as Scaramouche on friday and she was brilliant!! Really want all the songs she sang because her voice is amazing!

  • was that on August 21 2009 ? Because I went that friday and I would love to know the cast from that day. The show was brilliant, amazing!!!!

  • It was indeed,

    Scaramouche - The fantastic Rachel Tucker

    Galileo - Mig Ayesa (I think)

    and im trying to figure out the rest but im struggling, If you find out please let me know...

    Where were you sitting???

  • Scrap that

    Galileo was played by Ricardo Alfonso,

  • Did you hear at the end when someone shouted "I love you shagileo gigolo" and Ricardo laughed and had to stop singing for a minute????

  • when?????

  • 21st August this year

  • yer ive seen it when i was with the ski trip the school thing at the end we all got the audeince on their feet and the cast we loving us for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i went to see wwry on tuesday and she played scaramouche - she was amasing!! x

  • Omg I was there on that same day. She was amazing, yes indeed! I have seen her for two times as Scaramouche!! Breath-taking! I'd hope too see her as Meat one day too, but it's a pity I live in Holland..

  • She truly is amazing! I cant believe she is leaving now.. I am glad i already got my tickets =)

  • i love her so much, really really REALLY wanna see her in this! xo

  • Ahh i love this! thanks for posting.

    i loved rachel in i'd do anything, but only got round to seeing her in wwry the other day and she was amazing, this song brought a tear to my eye lol. definetely better than kerry ellis' version but i may be biased.

    I really wanna see rachel play scaramouche but i don't think she is scheduled to do so again :(

    Tuckers for elphaba (Y)

  • Anyone whos like shes no kerry,: kerry's gone get over it and love rachel

  • rachel is moving on to bigger an better things she wnt be in WWRY after her contract watch out shes lined up for summa else wif a top comedian west end

  • OLIVER?

  • not sur yet veri few details at the moment but theyre from a veri reliable source

  • i went to college with rachel and i can say first hand that she is a lovely girl and a born performer. i think she definitly does this song justice.

  • funny eveyone whos dissed her has also mentioned kerry:P typical lol

    im a huge kerry fan aswell but i still absoltly adore rachel, they cant be compared her voice is gorgeous and shes an absolute sweetheart thanks for positng

  • This is really good! She says the audio doesnt do her justice, but i think its amazing. I didn't like her on id do anything, I thought she was trying too hard. I saw WWRY 2 years ago, and it was the women AFTER Kerry Ellis. I prefer Kerry Ellis as Meat, but I love Kerry Ellis anywayz.

  • This is good - better than what she did in I'd do anything...but I love Kerry's version a little too much!

    (Not her new one though...that's S**T!)

  • i lobved her on id do anything.. she sounds amazing here.. and im sure better in person.. that riff flying too close to the sun was amazing imo

  • i do like it but i'll stick to kerry ellis' version!!

  • You cant judge her till you have seen her live she is outsttanding ! she got a well deserved stnaind ovation at the end f the show her voice when i was there made me cry she got the biggest cheer after a song out of the whole cast ! :D outstanding!

  • ive met her :)

  • Went and saw it the other night,

    She really disapointed me.

    I don't think her voice suits this song at all.

    Kerry Ellis cannot be beaten with regards to this role.

  • wow amazing gave me chills that was phenomonal well done rachel i wonder wat she wld be like as elphiba i rekon she cld do it well good!!

  • kerry ellis is better!!

  • you can hate that comment all you want, but its the truth guys

  • She is soo fab

    I have been to see her play Meat and she was absolutely AMAZING!!!

    Hopefully I will be going bac to see her again but no sure when : /

  • rachel was amazin in this. fantastic. think she is better than kerry ellis. more stage presence and more fun

  • i saw this the other night and was gutted wanted to see rachel play meat. (not sure who played her that night). but she sounds good in this.

  • Can some one please tell me if rachel does matinee's as meat?

  • She sounds great, i dont feel she has the power that Kerry Ellis does at some points But every one sings different! pref Ellis' version. Glad she got a good role she deserved it! :D

  • Kerry Ellis's version is and will always be the defining version of this song yet Rachel is also good-she was the best in I'd Do Anything she will go on to even greater things

  • Rachel definitely was the best in I'd Do Anything, she did not deserve to leave when she did :(

  • RACHEL TUCKER IS AMAZING! She's got an incredible voice and she is a fantastic actress! :) as you can tell I am a MASSIVE Rachel Tucker Fan! xx

  • I saw her playing Meat a few days ago .. she's INCREDIBLE really brilliant .. she's got the energy and the best voice, that part fitted her Brilliantly! xx

  • (This was a reply to sarahj0802 and giageordiegal :D )

  • wheres the last pic from

  • Rachel was ace in i'd do anything and im sooo glad she got this role! but I've seen this about 8 times, :P and no one beats Kerry Ellis she was immense!! (: x

  • i'm sorry i am a die hard kerry fan ..but thiss this was amazing ...i mite say even better then kerrys ...her head voice is amazing ...her belt is sooo clear and her riffs are wickeddd!!..i say apollos next elphaba!!!

  • ohh im sorry that is BULLSHIT!...she has such tone and resinance to her voice..she has a unique quality to her voice..althoug kerry is amazing in everything else she does..i have heard alot of amateur companies with meats..better then kerry...but suppose everyone has there own opinions

  • I saw her as Scaramouche, she was AMAZING, i do wish i'd seen her sing this song though!!

  • is it possible that you could send it to me? i can do a swop if you want... i have severasl musicals, etc.... let me know??

  • send what?? don't suppose you have Tina Arena in Chicago do you?

  • i can probably get it for you, by this weekend? i meant, is it possible for you to send me the song... i saw rachel tucker on the weakest link. and wanted to hear her sing.

  • i could do yeh. i have more of the show but not easily to hand. I would really appreciate the Chicago if you can get it! - i managed to record it all, and then my minidisc player decided to wipe it all. - i cried. :(

  • as in the entire show of chicago? not sure, but i can get a load of songs with her in them, probably. ta m'dear x

  • In my opinion, No-one will ever beat kerry ellis, she's simply breath-taking, but this performance is still very good :) well done rachel :D

  • i love the note at 3:50 awesome x

  • Wow!

    I've never been to WWRY and I'm a big fan of Kerry Ellis so I know how she does her NOBY but I absolutely loved Rachel's riffs towards the end!

    I'm going to WWRY in February, will Rachel still be on then, and does she do matinees? I'd love to see her in this role!!

  • WWRY is amazing!!

    I genuinely don't think anyone could quite match up to Kerry - she was ridiculously outstanding, but Rachel is very good. =)

    I'm not sure about when Rachel will be performing, but have fun anyway.

    xx

  • Rachel is contracted until September 09, so unless shes ill or on holiday I don't see why she wouldn't be performing that day.

  • Ooh thats perfect! Thank you :) Give's me some time to save up to go and see her :D

  • i went to watch WWRY on monday and i was sooo excited to see her...then we we got there her under-study was on :(

    but she was AMAZING too!

  • Im seeing WWRY on monday! So excited.

    I absoulutely love Kerry Ellis' original version of this song and i think Kerrys version will always be my fave but I LOVE RACHEL TOO!!!

    She's amazingly talented and im looking forward to seeing her on Monday!!

    Thanks for uploading :)

  • Rachel is amazing, and i can't wait to see We Will Rock You, with her in it!!!

    I saw her live in Hyde Park, and she was just as incredible then!!

  • could someone please please get a better quality version of this song and post it shes is absolutely amazin at this song or send it to me at my email address many many thanx

  • sorry but that's kinda rude... i risked alot to get this and no-one else has done it! this is alot clearer than most theatre recordings i think. how about YOU try and get one?

  • it's weird.... i went to see wicked for my birthday expecting to see kerry...and i saw CASSIDY JANSON - and absolutely LOVED her. after seeing youtube clips of kerry i really don't like her voice and was glad i saw cassidy... and therefore i FAR prefer rachel in this role....vocally at least.... not sure of the irishness of the role....but its' different.

    :)

  • Great recording (:

    And i respect your opinion, but i just wanted to say that hearing Kerry live, she sounds soooooo much different/better than recordings of her (:

  • My comment above was meant to be a reply to unidan82s comment about not really liking Kerry Ellis voice in Wicked, but for some reason it posted as a usual comment instead?!

  • I think looking at all these comments, Kerry is still the fave (she was the original though so you can't really beat it!) and then Rachel second :D

  • in my eyes no one can replace kerry...but rachel sings this way better than she sang anything on I'd do anything!

  • rachel is amazing! her voice has loads of body and she sings with such emotion!

    she deserved to win id do anything, but she didnt have the big sob story or the crazy personality but was head and shoulders better than all of them!

  • There must be a reason why she didn't do better on IDA. Arguably, she did not have that extra something in her voice, 'body' I call it, but Jodie had less especially when she didn't belt. In this song Rachel has the high frills at the end but that 'body' is missing in the early part of the song

  • i see what you mean... but you can't belt out the whole song how boring would that be. it's a really nice and sad song... i think she did it perfectly.

    The belting at the end, like the high riffs are more suited to this show... i think she did try to show off that but ALW told her not to.

    maybe her heart wasnt in IDA - cos that role is kinda small really and not that vocally demanding.

    (although it's demanding on crappy Jodie)

  • Maybe Rachel wasn't suited to Nancy - i can understand that (JESSIE should have won), but i think she is perfect for this song - i'm not getting this whole 'lack of body ' thing - i think she's fantastic!

  • I agree with you, Jessie should ahve won, and I agree with you, Rachel is the best for this role! Just wish I could see her :(

  • Haha! I'm sure it's very demanding on Jodie tbh!

  • omg someone has to get a recording of her doing scaramouche!! - does scaramouche have any solo songs... i can't remember now.

  • yeah somebody to lvoe i think.. i cant remember if there are any more :S

  • Scaramouche has LOADS!!!!!! of solos, i want to break free, somebody to love, headlong, under pressure, who wants to live forever, bohemian raphsosdy and hammer to fall! Loads!!!!!

  • *Late reaction*

    I have recorded almost all her songs as Scara!! :D

  • Thank you :D

  • on the website it still says that meat is being played by someone else

  • She sounds amazing on this, but live, even better, (:

  • I still think Kerry's better but I always will no matter who replaces her.

    However, I think Rachel is well suited to the part and is doing a great job! She wasn't the right person to be Nancy (and I still don't like Jodie), she's way too good for it and so's Sam Barks.

    xoxo

  • yeah i agree no-one can replace Kerry!!

  • the riffs at the end are amazing!

  • Rachel Tucker is the best! I've seen this live-yesterday on the front row in the middle and it could have been easy for me to reach out and touch her- but i would never want to ruin her perfect performing! She is amazing! Met her at the stage door and got a pic and her autograph! She's brilliant!

  • I was extremely lucky cos I got to see her playing Scaramouche, and she was fantastic!

  • how did she play scaramouche? she plays meat?

  • She's the principal Meat but she's also first understudy for Scaramouche

  • I saw Rachel play Scaramouche last night as Sabrina was away. She was phenomenal, absolutely fantastic! Met her again afterwards, shes so so lovely!

  • Me too! She was fantastic!

  • She is the first understudy for Scaramouche, so when Sabrina was off, she covered

  • i loveeeee her :D she makes me proud to be from belfast.. i actually live around the corner from where she used to live :D her parents r still there tho

  • thanks for all the lovely comments, so glad u all like it :)

  • thanx for this....i went to see WWRY on october the 16th and when i saw rachel was in it...i was kinda disapointed i thought WWRY had falling into getting finalist rejects to play big roles for publicty.... but when she started singing i take back all the doubt i had she was incredible!! her voice and her riffs were amazing !!!!!

  • Wow! she really is amazing :D

  • i work for her sister and have met her on numerous occasiond and shes a veri down to earth and lovely person i wish her all the sucess in the world