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... Diva delights, Las Vegas style Embassy Rooms La Cage As the UK gears itself up for the very British concept of pantomime, this show offers us its own brand of dame, Las Vegas style. The award-winning production has repeatedly played to full houses for the past 15 years, and its relatively simple formula men dressed as famous women and lip-synching to their songs belies the striking impact that ...
... Venue that's one of a kind Bardon Leisure Services Agency--The Event For the seventh year, the Leisure Services Agency brought its unique end of term celebration to the Stardust Club, the only venue which continues the style of entertainment that passed away in the rest of Britain in the early eighties. This is the type of place in which many of our topline enter tainers cut their teeth, one ...
... Mary Black London Palladium Mary Black's first concert appear ance at the Palladium proved to be a great success in every way. Relaxed and confident, she skil fully mixes several old favourites like Katy, Babes in the Wood and the suggestive, Latin-styled Carolina Rua, with a generous helping of songs from her latest album Speaking with the Angel. She was aided and abetted by a terrific band, ...
... Orvay Maria! Rosemary Branch Born in Calcutta of an Iraqi Jewish father and a Portuguese Catholic mother (with, apparently, a little bit of Irish too), Maria Arakie is all prepared to take her audience on a semi-autobiographical odyssey, while ensuring there is plenty of glitz along the way. In effect, we do not discover an enormous amount about Arakie's background, which is a shame, but she ...
... The Reunion Ashton-under-Lyne Touring tribute shows seem to be fashionable at the moment, although some are experiencing varying degrees of success. On the whole they appear to be dedicated to performers who have died or retired from the stage, relving on the loyalty of a cated fan base to fill seats. In the case of The Reunion at the Tameside, the subject is American pop idol Michael ...
... The Searchers Bootle Liverpool band The Searchers rose to prominence in 1963. Their first No 1, Sweets for My Sweet, began a chart career which flourished into the seventies. The group now presents a show built around their 40 years in music. They opened with Sweets for My Sweet, and soon the cavernous Bootle Town Hall was resounding to rock'n'roll, with lights and dry ice adding to the ...
... Tribute sails a well used course Late one evening recently on Radio 3. there was one of those spontaneous incidents which broadcaster Brian Johnston used to describe as 'champagne moments'. For no apparent reason, the continuity announcer played Dawn Upshaw's exquisite version of an obscure Rodgers and Hart ballad, He Was Too Good to Me. Upshaw was heard again in Composer of the Week: ...
... An Evening with Charles Dickens Mold Charles Dickens performed specially written episodes from his novels before packed houses, and it is this aspect of the novelist's career that Richard Moore aims to reproduce in his new one- man show. He certainly manages it at Clwyd Theatr Cymru's Emlvn Williams Theatre, even down to the packed houses. Moore opens with Sikes and Nancy, a distillation of ...
... Timeless/Ola Ronnie Scott's Much in demand as a session and band singer, Ola is slick and gutsy, evoking shades of Teddy Pendergrass, Wilson Pickett and Michael McDonald. But here, he was doing his own thing- jazz- funk and lots of it. First off, though, support duo Timeless shared their vision of a world swirling with smoky ballads. Flo Harrison The Voice and arranger/composer Gerry Prince, ...
... Pilgrims make fine progress Sadler's Wells God's Plenty Christopher Bruce's new work for Rambert Dance Company represents a new departure for this always innovative choreographer. The full-length piece has spoken passages, sometimes by the dancers themselves, to add a new dimension to what is largely an adaptation of three of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. But these are prefaced by both a ...
... The Roy Wood Spectacular King's Lynn Are you ready to rock? You better be, because Roy Wood's rag-tag Army, replete with six-piece brass section, is on the march to a theatre near you. It did not need Mystic Meg to predict the set list at the Com Exchange. Rre Brigade, Rowers in the Rain, Blackberry Way and. of course, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day were all there to be cheerfully ...