Stars of the Opera

Stars of the Opera is looking for the best choir in the West Midlands to join them on stage when it premieres at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, on Saturday, June 9.

The production’s producers, Entertainers, are launching a competition to find the local area’s very best choir. The winning group will be invited to take part in the eagerly-awaited performance.

40 years ago original ABBA members Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog released their first material under the name ABBA in 1972. After winning the Eurovision Song Contest with the single Waterloo the following year, the quartet went on to record 19 top 20 hits, topping the charts on no less than nine occasions.

“Few bands can claim to have made as big an impact on British pop music history,” says Martin Spooner, who plays Bjorn in Thank You for the Music.

Their million-selling hits – such as Dancing Queen; Super Trouper, Knowing Me, Knowing You; The Name of the Game; Mamma Mia and Take a Chance on Me – are eternal. ABBA’s music is as popular today as it was in their Seventies and Eighties heyday.

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An Evening of Burlesque arrives fresh from a two-month Continental tour that has taken in Milan, Leipzig, Verona, Dresden, Padova, Dessau and dozens of other major European cities.

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This year the show will feature two new Supremes in the form of the highly talented Amarra Smith and Shanay Holmes.  Both performers are fantastic additions to this popular production and bring with them a new creative energy for this year’s shows.   

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The ad promotes the use of chest compressions to save victims of heart attacks. Stayin’ Alive was selected not only because of its lyrical content. The BHF suggests that pumping the chest at between 110 and 120 beats per minute – the same rate as the 1978 hit – is more effective than a poor breath resuscitation attempt.

The use of the single on the advert is in marked contrast to a previous attempt to use the song on a TV advert that involved the cast of hit stage show Thank You for the Music. It was reported three years ago that The Bee Gees had refused to allow a cover version of the song, performed by the stars of the touring concert show, to be used on a TV ad because it sounded too much like their original hit song!

A version of the million-selling hit single was recorded by the stars of touring tribute concert show Thank You for the Music for an anti-AIDS telly commercial.

“When Bee Gee Barry Gibb heard the song he objected that viewers wouldn’t know it was a cover version,” says Martin Spooner, who plays Robin Gibb in Thank You for the Music, which features the music of the Bee Gees and ABBA.

“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Although we miss out on a lucrative TV deal, we take this as a massive compliment.”

Martin and his co-stars were asked to record a version of Stayin’ Alive by television commercial creators Mcasso. The London-based production company - responsible for eye-popping ads for the Ford Motor Company, Burger King, Ebay and the Times - was delighted with their version of Stayin’ Alive.

However, no one anticipated the reaction of the production company representing Barry Gibb when permission was requested for use of the song for the commercial’s soundtrack.

“We have been portraying the Bee Gees in the stage show Thank You for the Music for 12 years,” says Martin.

“Going into the studio to record Stayin’ Alive was like second nature. We recorded the song in a day.”

The Thank You for the Music cast claim they do more than just look like and sound like the Bee Gees. They claim to outperform the Gibb brothers in their heyday.

“We also sing chart toppers written by Maurice, Barry and Robin for other million-selling artists,” says Martin.

Jess was discovered on legendary early Sixties TV show Oh Boy! and a chart topper of that time with his singles  Mystery Girl, Cherry Pie and This Pullover, went on to forge a successful career on the silver screen and the West End stage.

A distinguished list of world-famous recording artists came second best to the irrepressible Jess on the show including: Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Adam Faith and Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.

“I was fortunate enough to be regarded as a teen idol, an incredible time I’ll remember forever” says Jess. A particularly proud moment came in 1961. “I was voted the Most Popular Male Singer in the New Musical Express’ annual poll and went on the play the most prestigious venues of the time – the London Palladium, Royal Albert Hall and Wembley Pool.”

Today, Jess tours the world with his own concert show and has agreed to appear on a select number of dates with the famous Buddy Holly – a Legend Reborn stage production.

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The cast regularly plays to full houses on its nationwide tours of the UK and crisscross the globe bringing the music of Abba to music lovers worldwide.They are huge TV stars in Brazil, regularly appearing on national TV!

For the 2011 , Abba Magic has announced a brand-new look. All new dazzling dance routines and glittering costumes combine with a completely rejuvenated set list, guaranteeing Abba Magic’s place as the world’s number one concert show.

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An Evening of Burlesque

Glossier than Amber Topaz’s lip gloss, hotter than Piff the Magic Dragon’s breath,  as glittering as Slinky Sparkles’ golden cape, more eye-popping than Kalki Hula Girl’s stage show. . .

The official 2011-2012 An Evening of Burlesque show programme is now hot off the printing presses. Packed full of pictures of the performers and including an authoritative history of the art of burlesque, it’s 36 sizzling, full-colour pages of glamour, glitz and fun, fun, fun.