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A new play with music and tap inspired by the life of Sammy
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
in association with The Sammy Davis Jnr Foundation, New York Presents SAMMY A NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC AND TAP INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF SAMMY DAVIS JR
Regional Tour Monday 9th September – Saturday 2nd November 2002
Sheffield, Lyceum; Leeds, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Manchester, Contact;
Bracknell, South Hill Park; Liverpool, Everyman; Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal;
Wellingborough, The Castle; Ipswich, New Wolsey; Winchester, Theatre Royal.
Theatre Royal Stratford East Monday 11th – Sat. 23rd November 2002
An ambitious impresario, Hillard Elkins (Peter Straker) brings together eight Song and Dance men and women to audition for a forthcoming West End musical ‘Sammy’. In their desperation to impress the once famous but now jaded cabaret singer turned producer, the auditionees draw inspiration from the life of Sammy Davis Jnr who ‘was the wrong look, height, face and race’ to make it, but is now arguably known worldwide as the ‘greatest entertainer who ever lived’.
Sammy explores addiction, charisma, desolation, inspiration, and triumph tackled and conquered by the great man; and his growing impact on a younger generation of struggling artists living in today’s multicultural Britain. The show’s promise, is an innovative piece of entertaining theatre featuring an array of memorable Sammy Davis Jr hits and original high velocity Tap routines re-imagined for the British Stage.
Direction and Script Development Femi Elufowoju Jnr
Musical Direction and Arrangement Warren Wills
Choreography Donna Berlin and Lorraine Le-Blanc
The Cast: Donna Berlin, Jon Clairmonte, Erica Ann Deakin, Rodger Dunklee, Georgina Field, Lorraine Le-Blanc, Jason Pennycooke
with Peter Straker as Hillard Elkins.
The Company: Tiata Fahodzi (Theatre of the emancipated) is currently one of Britain’s leading Black regional touring Theatre Companies. The company has just been awarded three year revenue funding from the Arts Council of England in recognition of its contribution to the landscape of British Theatre, home and abroad i.e. The Sammy Davis Jr Foundation New York
Past productions include: Tickets and Ties Theatre Royal Stratford East 1996 and European tour, Booked 1998 Tabernacle and Oval House, Bonded 1999 Oval House and National Tour, Makinde 2000, Oval House and National tour and Abyssinia 2001, Southwark Playhouse and National Tour.
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