West End impresarios should be beating a path to the door of baritone Craig Yates, if they have not already done so.

Trained singers of his stature are badly needed in musical theatre, and on the basis of this lunchtime concert he'd be a credit to the profession.

Perhaps the winner of the first Welsh Young Musical Theatre Singer of the Year award is happy enough at the moment with his membership of the popular male choir Only Men Aloud.

But in this 'Drury Lane to Broadway' recital with super accompanist Nicola Rose at the piano, he demonstrated that what others do well, he can do better.

Broadening credentials, he doubled roles in a selection from Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, taking on both sailor Anthony's livery in Johanna and Todd's in My Friends and Pretty Women, with evidence that he has the measure of the show's lurid and tragic elements.

Something Good from The Sound of Music was a duet (Maria and von Trapp) turned into a solo, its winning sentimentality mirrored elsewhere in songs from shows by Frank Wildhorn and William Finn.

Between sets, Ms Rose played solo versions of This Is My Beloved (from Kismet) and The Man I Love (Gershwin) which raised the hope that she might return on her own account.

Mr Yates also showed how to deal with the musical's harder and livelier edges in tunes from Guys & Dolls and Chicago. We need to see him curtain-up, in costume and beneath the follow-spot. On this occasion his microphone was totally unnecessary.