Gareth Gates sings Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserables on Michael Ball show

Gareth Gates appears on the Michael Ball chat show to sing Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserables - originally sung by Michael as Marius.

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Music

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• Gareth
• Gates
• Michael
• Ball
• Les
• Miserables
• Empty
• Chairs
• at
• Tables
• Marius
• musicals

[Danny064]

anyone else actually think gareth is better now as musical star that a pop star? everyone now seems to refer to him as gareth who was in "les mis" or "joseph" - and i congratulate him for that! :D

[gerryhansolo]

could have been the perfect marius for the o 2 event!

[RedLorryYellowLorryx]

@lykohmigawd1 now that you point it out.. yeah he is panting a bit too much and over acting.. but i think he's just really eager to please which is cute :P

[RedLorryYellowLorryx]

he should have taken Nick Jonas's role.. definitely :P

[TheKatiefied]

This is the guy from pop idol?!?! Holy Schmolies!

[lykohmigawd1]

i kinda think he is over acting in this....love him though.

[hotqueekboi]

@06s091

Really???

Guess I now know why Grantaire says: "Is Marius in love at last?" in Red and Black/ABC Cafe.... no love at all until 23/24??? Silly thing - where has he been hiding? :P

Also, if that can be taken to be the average age of the students then... they are all pretty old students! Stop procrastinating and graduate already!

[06s091]

@hotqueekboi Marius is supposed to be 23-24 years old. Michael was 23 when he originated the role. It's not Michael's fault that they haven't been able to find actors to play Marius as strong as he(and the others that played the role in the beginning) did.

And just so you know: Michael doesn't have a trained voice - he never studied singing or had voice lessons. (except once in 2004 before playing Jean Valjean)

[hotqueekboi]

Michael Ball has the better trained voice, but he was never appropriate for the part. Too trained and "masculine" is wrong for this song. Ball has always looked and sounded too old for the role.... it needs to be a young guy, or a guy who can pass for being quite young (as Gates is, he looks a lot younger than he is here).

So, I would say Gareth Gates is perfect here, however that breathing all over the place annoys me. I think he over did it. But he's reinvented his career spectacularly!

[jakeriding53]

a pop star singing a classic song from a classic musical, normally i would hate him for doing it, but he does it so damn well

[2HonestIam]

Gareth has a better sounding voice than all the other pretentious male singers that have been in this show.Closet bumboy Ball,has a dreadful vibrato,the others always sound laboured and very West End,they would all do themselves a favour and learn to sing in their natural voices,and not listening to puffs in music schools!

[luzzazul]

Love his voice, and he's also a great actor!