John Partridge was born in July 24th 1971. He is trained at the Royal Ballet School of London, Bush Davies, and Doreen Bird in London area. He left college in 17 years old to tour with the original U.K. touring production of Cats. He played the roles of Alonzo, Rumpus Cat, understudied Mistoffelees and the Rum Tum Tugger, and was dance captain for 2 years. He joined the London company of Cats afterwards, playing the Rum Tum Tugger and Munkustrap.
CREDITS: Aladdin, Hunting of the Snark, Starlight Express (Electra), Tommy, Grease, The Fix, Cats, Rent (playing roger), Notre Dame Paris, Gringoire, Black Goes with Everything, The Hunting of the Snark.
TELEVISION AND VIDEO: A kind of loving, Aspects of Dancing, Pebble Mill, The Hot Shoe Show, This Morning, commercials ofr Foxes Classic, Colgate, Matteesers and Cadbury's Twirl, Cats playing Rum Tum Tugger.
RECORDINGS: The New Starlight Express (1992), original German Cast recording of Rent and original London recording of The Fix.
CHARITY GALAS: My One and Only and the 1992 Royal Variety Performance.
OTHER WORK: He has worked with several Rock/Pop bands, such as U2, Pet Shop boys, Kim Wild, Neneh Cherry, Pete Townsend, Mica Paris and Ultra Nate.
NEWS: John will join Notre Dame Du Paris on around 17th August 2000, if you want to see him, come to see this show.
He has played the club circuit with his band and he is currently working on a recording of his own material.
