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FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR<br />
SEASONS AT THE O2<br />
Legendary falsetto Frankie Valli and<br />
The Four Seasons six date UK tour takes<br />
in The 02, London on 23 April.<br />
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons<br />
have sold over 100 million records<br />
worldwide and defined the sound of an<br />
era with classic hits like: Walk Like A<br />
Man, Sherry, Can’t Take My Eyes Off<br />
You, Rag Doll, Big Girls Don’t Cry and<br />
many more.<br />
Frankie Valli, who came to fame in<br />
1962 as the lead singer of The Four<br />
Seasons, is hotter than ever in the 21st<br />
century, thanks to the volcanic success<br />
of the Tony-winning musical Jersey<br />
Boys which chronicles the life and times<br />
of Frankie and his legendary group.<br />
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway in<br />
2005 and is s<strong>til</strong>l going strong with five<br />
other casts performing Jersey Boys<br />
nightly from Las Vegas to London. The<br />
musical was turned into a film, directed<br />
by Clint Eastwood in 2014.<br />
The real Frankie Valli is also packing<br />
venues around the world. For as far into<br />
the future as anyone can see, Jersey<br />
Boys will introduce the music of Frankie<br />
Valli to new generations. The man<br />
himself shows no signs of slowing<br />
down. As his character says at the end of<br />
Jersey Boys: ‘Like that bunny on TV with<br />
the battery, I just keep going and going<br />
and going.’<br />
For tickets, telephone the box office<br />
on 0844 856 0202 or www.the02.co.uk<br />
OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING KINKY<br />
BOOTS EXTENDS BOOKING<br />
Following its 600th West End<br />
performance, Kinky Boots, the hugehearted,<br />
high-heeled hit, has opened a<br />
new booking period un<strong>til</strong> 30 September.<br />
Kinky Boots has become a favourite<br />
with UK theatregoers at the Adelphi<br />
Theatre having won every major Best<br />
Musical award. The show has won three<br />
Olivier Awards for Best New Musical, Best<br />
Costume Design and Best Actor in a<br />
Musical for Matt Henry who plays Lola.<br />
With a book by Broadway legend and<br />
four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey<br />
Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles), and<br />
songs by Grammy® and Tony®<br />
winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, this<br />
joyous musical celebration is about the<br />
friendships we discover, and the belief<br />
that you can change the world when you<br />
change your mind.<br />
Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots<br />
takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe<br />
factory in Northampton to the glamorous<br />
catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price (David<br />
Hunter) is struggling to live up to his<br />
father’s expectations and continue the<br />
family business of Price & Son. With the<br />
factory’s future hanging in the balance,<br />
help arrives in the unlikely but<br />
spectacular form of Lola (Matt Henry),<br />
a fabulous performer in need of some<br />
sturdy new s<strong>til</strong>ettos.<br />
Tickets telephone 020 3725 7060.<br />
David Hunter, Elena Skye and Matt Henry<br />
in Kinky Boots. Photo: Helen Maybanks.<br />
THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN’– FATS<br />
WALLER’S LIFE AND MUSIC<br />
Comedian, actor, writer and storyteller<br />
Desiree Burch (pictured) is joining New<br />
York’s hottest jazz musicians and tap<br />
dancers for the world premiere of This<br />
Joint is Jumpin’, a red-hot 1920’s<br />
Harlem rent party celebration of jazz icon<br />
Fats Waller’s life and music, at The Other<br />
Palace Studio from 4 – 15 April.<br />
This Joint is Jumpin’ is a fusion of<br />
live jazz, thrilling tap dancing and<br />
storytelling celebrating and radically<br />
interpreting jazz icon Fats Waller’s<br />
music, breathing new life into classics<br />
such as Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black and<br />
Blue and Honeysuckle Rose.<br />
The show is produced by Hoagy B.<br />
Carmichael, son of the legendary<br />
American composer Hoagy Carmichael.<br />
Desiree Burch was raised in L.A.,<br />
developed artistically in NY and<br />
currently resides in London. Her brash<br />
and energetic comedy style has been<br />
seen on NBC and E4, and made her the<br />
winner of the 2015 Funny Women Stage<br />
Award for stand-up. As a writer and<br />
performer, she makes raw and gutsy<br />
work. Her critically-acclaimed solo show<br />
52 Man Pickup has toured<br />
internationally and her solo piece Tar<br />
Baby won a 2015 Fringe First for new<br />
writing at the Edinburgh Fringe. Inspired<br />
by a performance aesthetic developed<br />
with the New York Neo-Futurists,<br />
Desiree performed for several years in<br />
the show Too Much Light Makes the<br />
Baby Go Blind and has toured in Young<br />
Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show.<br />
Box office telephone 0844 264 2121.<br />
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