PRISONER 24601 - Brett Budgeon is Jean Valjean
Brett
Budegon will be playing the principal role of Jean Valjean in the
forthcoming blockbuster production of Les Misérables at the
Theatre Royal.
Brett Budgeon lives in his home town of Devonport where he operates
a busy singing studio. He has studied singing at the University of
Tasmania Conservatorium of Muisc and at the Queensland
Conservatorium of Music as well as at the prestigious Victorian
College Of the Arts.
Brett performed in his first musical at the age of 9 and he has
consistently performed in stage shows ever since. He recently
performed his own one-man show at The Launceston Country Club Casino
as part of the Casino’s daytime entertainment programme and was so
successful he did an encore performance two weeks later.
Brett’s incredible vocal range has seen him perform in Sydney at
numerous events as a soloist with the Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra
and SBS Youth Orchestra under the baton of Tommy Tycho as well as
other distinguished Australian and overseas conductors.
At the age of 25 he played the role Javert in the Gold Coast Arts
Centre production of Les Misérables the production then
travelled to Newcastle, New Zealand and on into South East Asia. He
has also performed professionally Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar
and Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. He was Curly in
Okalahoma opposite Normie Rowe, and Rapunzel’s Prince in a
production of Into the Woods along side Julie Anthony and
Stuart Wagstaff. Brett has performed a number of times in Sydney
Carols by Candlelight for Sydney Olympic Park and Blacktown
(where promoters last year labelled him the “Tenor from Tassie”!)
Brett is also a keen sprinter having competed at the Stawell Gift
and coming a close second (first loser) in the 2006 Burnie Gift.
