2012
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of ‘SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME’ by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the same team that brought you ‘DREAMBOATS + PETTICOATS’... more info
A brand new musical featuring the hits of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman!
This nostalgic, feel-good musical journey will transport you back to music’s golden era as we follow two teenage sisters, Jennifer and Marie, through the summer of 1963. Full of freedom and high spirits they embark on a family holiday to the coast and a traditional seaside town. The young siblings soon discover much more than just sea and sand when they meet a handsome American airman, who invites them to a dance at the nearby United States Air Force base.
But young love and holiday romance is never that simple and the sisters soon realise that while the world around them is still watching itself in black and white, life and love can be much more colourful.
Songs include: ‘A Teenager in Love’, Sweets For My Sweet’, ’Turn Me Loose’, ‘Here I Go Again’, ’Viva Las Vegas’, ‘Little Sister’,’His Latest Flame’, ‘Suspicion’,’Can’t Get Used to Losing You’ and ’Save the Last Dance For Me’
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME - UK TOUR DATES 2012
| Monday 9 January – Saturday 21 January | Box Office: 0844 871 7651 |
| Churchill Theatre, Bromley | Website: www.atgtickets.com/the-churchill |
| Monday 23 – Saturday 28 January | Box Office: 0114 249 6060 |
| Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield | Website: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk |
| Monday 30 January – Saturday 4 February | Box Office: 0844 871 3014 |
| Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh | Website: www.edinburghplayhouse.org.uk |
| Monday 6 – Saturday 12 February | Box Office: 0844 871 3012 |
| The Hippodrome, Bristol | Website: www.bristolhippodrome.org.uk |
| Monday 13 February – Saturday 18 February | Box Office: 0844 871 7607 |
| Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury | Website: www.atgtickets.com/aylesbury |
| Monday 20 – Saturday 25 February | Box Office: 01325 486555 |
| Civic Theatre, Darlington | Website: www.darlington.gov.uk/arts |
| Monday 27 February – Saturday 3 March | Box Office: 0161 828 1700 |
| Opera House, Manchester | Website: www.manchesteroperahouse.org.uk |
| Monday 5 – Saturday 10 March | Box Office: 0844 871 7648 |
| Kings Theatre, Glasgow | Website: www.atgtickets.com/glasgow |
| Monday 12 – Saturday 17 March | Box Office: 01274 432 000 |
| Alhambra Theatre, Bradford | Website: www.bradford-theatres.co.uk |
| Monday 26 - Saturday 31 March | Box Office: 0844 871 3017 |
| Empire Theatre, Liverpool | Website: www.liverpoolempire.org.uk |
| Monday 2 – Saturday 7 April | Box Office: 0844 871 7645 |
| New Victoria Theatre, Woking | Website: www.atgtickets.com/woking |
| Monday 9 – Saturday 14 April | Box Office: 0844 871 7652 |
| The Theatre, Milton Keynes | Website: www.atgtickets.com/miltonkeynes |
| Monday 16 April – Saturday 21 April | Box Office: 0115 989 5555 |
| Theatre Royal, Nottingham | Website: www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk |
| Monday 23 – Saturday 28 April | Box Office: 01482 226 655 |
| New Theatre, Hull | Website: www.hullcc.gov.uk |
| Monday 30 April – Saturday 5 May | Box Office: 01903 206 206 |
| Pavilion Theatre, Worthing | Website: www.worthingtheatres.co.uk |
| Monday 7 – Saturday 12 May | Box Office: 01323 412 000 |
| Congress Theatre, Eastbourne | Website: www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk |
| Monday 14 – Saturday 19 May | Box Office: 0844 871 3022 |
| Empire Theatre, Sunderland | Website: www.atgtickets.com/sunderland |
| Monday 28 May – Saturday 2 June | Box Office: 01902 42 92 12 |
| Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton | Website: www.grandtheatre.info |
| Monday 11 – Saturday 16 June | Box Office: 01872 262 466 |
| Hall for Cornwall, Truro | Website: www.hallforcornwall.co.uk |
| Monday 18 – Saturday 23 June | Box Office: 01253 290 190 |
| Grand Theatre, Blackpool | Website: www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk |
| Monday 25 – Saturday 30 June | Box Office: 01604 624 811 |
| Derngate Theatre, Northampton | Website: www.royalandderngate.co.uk |
2011
September 2011 – January 2012:
‘Dirty Dancing’ is on tour in the UK – for information or to buy tickets, click here:
http://www.dirtydancingontour.com/tickets/tourdates/
September
Production of ‘Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris’ was staged at The Met Theatre, 1089 North Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90029
http://www.domatheatre.com/shows.html
reviewed here:
http://www.stagescenela.com/2011/09/jacques-brel-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-paris/
…”DOMA Theatre Company’s presentation of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris will prove a particular treat to fans of the Belgian chanteur, and will likely send the uninitiated to googling Brel’s original performances. Birth, death, and all of the life passages in between… Jacques Brel found a way to sing about it all, as this excellent Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris makes abundantly clear.”
2010
May 2010
Triumphant return to LA for production of ‘Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris’ at The Colony Theatre:
http://www.colonytheatre.org/shows/jacquesBrel.html
Reviewed here:
http://www.theatreinla.com/playdetail.php?playID=78
….“The genius of Jacques Brel is beautifully captured in this brilliant collection of timeless songs, songs of passionate desire and heartbreak, of youthful exuberance and world-weariness, of joyful hope and forgotten dreams. As fresh and poignant as ever, Jacques Brel reflects the full scope of what it means to be alive, where every song is a story.”
15th March 2010
Mort was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Mort was the recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award along with David Geffen, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Otis Blackwell and Jesse Stone.
February
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL opened on 19th February at Aria Resort Casino, Las Vegas directed by Vincent Paterson with the director of creation ‘Armand Thomas.
"Of course the climax is VIVA LAS VEGAS with 40 Elvis impersonators and a dozen chorines filling Mark Fisher’s staircased set and the Big E back on screen, overseeing the riot of color and more rent"
(Richard Carliss – Time Magazine).
2009
Cherry Red Records re-released Mort’s first album entitled “My Death” on its Rev-Ola label a deeply personal, adult, eccentric, theatrical and songwriting tour de force. Produced by Jerry Ragavoy –
available to buy here:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=2210
Very incisive review of Mort's two English language albums 'My Death' and 'Distant Drum'
http://bolt.cd/board/collections-misc/670492-mort-shuman-like-nothing-else.html
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=2210
2004
’NOTES MAJEURES’ Box Set released in France.
DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE by ELEANOR BERGSTEIN.
Eleanor’s stage adaptation of her iconic film opened with its World Premiere in Sydney Australia in November and new productions soon followed on the West End in London, in Holland, Germany, Canada and the States.
Mort and Eleanor had met and became great friends in early 1990, soon after Dirty Dancing the movie had been released and was a worldwide smash.Mort learnt from Eleanor how much she wanted to use ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’ in her original film, which had, of course, become a worldwide box
office smash with its soundtrack album selling over 40 million copies, making it the biggest selling soundtrack album of all time. Eleanor told Mort how upset she had been that they could not agree publishing terms for the song’s inclusion.
This was a huge disappointment to Mort, who had been unaware of the requests at the time.
In any event, with the stage adaptation, Eleanor was at last able to use Mort’s songs in the show - ‘Save The Last Dance For Me, This Magic Moment and in some productions, also Teenager in Love.
Dirty Dancing is on tour in the UK – for information or to buy tickets, click here:
http://www.dirtydancingontour.com/tickets/tourdates/
To book tickets for the Berlin stage production of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage please visit: http://www.stage-entertainment.de/musicals/dirty-dancing/tickets/tickets-verteilerseite.html
