Totally Barbados and Wendy Kidd is delighted to announce details and schedule of the Barbados Holders Season 2007.
Schedule of Holders Season events from March 13th to 31st, 2007:
> Tuesday March 13th - Voices of Africa
> Wednesday March 14th - Gerswin at the Keyboard
> Friday March 16th - Blithe Spirit
> Sunday March 18th - Opera Gala
> Monday March 19th - Blithe Spirit
> Wednesday March 21st - The Operas of Mozart
> Friday March 23rd - Reduced Shakespeare Company
> Saturday March 24th - Family Afternoon
> Saturday March 24th - Comedy Night
> Monday March 26th - Reduced Shakespeare Company
> Tuesday March 27th - Black by Popular Demand (JAZZ/BLUES)
> Thursday March 29th - STEVE KOVEN/JOEL SILBERMAN (CABARET)
> Saturday March 31st - Gala Night w/Tim Rice
The world's most beautiful and glamorous festival.....
Also see our Barbados Events Calendar for more information
DETAILS OF EACH EVENT
Tuesday 13th - Saturday 31st March
One of the Caribbean's most exclusive and most glamorous events returns for a series of exclusive performances featuring an enormous variety of music and theatre ranging from opera to comedy, from the West End and Broadway musical to the rhythms of the French Caribbean. Nights under the stars with the stars..........
Tuesday 13th March Voices of Africa
The Holders Season bursts into life with the sensational vocal outfit Black Umfolosi who are specially flying in from Zimbabwe. This quintet of singers bring the energy of traditional African songs, dances and rhythms and promises to be a moving, colourful and life affirming Holders opening night. With support from top Barbadian musicians (to be confirmed)
Wednesday 14th March Gershwin at the Keyboard
Virtuoso pianist, New York based Jack Gibbons brings to life the life and music of the great George Gershwin - one of music's great communicators, Gibbons performs his acclaimed note-for-note reconstructions of the composer's original recordings -Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, The Man I Love, Fascinating Rhythm, Porgy and Bess excerpts. In the first half, elegant French chanteuse Helene Hebrard presents a series of ballads and jazz classics with a Gallic tinge performed with a trio led by Vincent
Friday 16th March Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit
The first of two performances by the brand new Anglo-Barbadian Gale Theatre company. Blithe Spirit is one of 'The Master' Noel Coward's finest and funniest pieces for theatre and the medium Madame Arcati one of his most memorable creations. Conjured up at a séance, Charles' first wife Elvira returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery…
Sunday 18th March Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte n
Not only is he regarded as the greatest of all classical composers, but his operas also set him out as one of the greatest masters of the musical stage. Cosi fan tutte is Mozart opera at its best. Witty, touching, mischievous but above all - tuneful. Performed by an orchestra and soloists from New York's great opera companies
Monday 19th March Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit
A second performance of Noel Coward's glittering masterpiece performed by the brand new, Anglo-Barbadian Gale Theatre Company
Wednesday 21st March The Operas of Mozart A marriage, a monster.... and women
A second opportunity to experience the sometimes majestic, sometimes comic but always intensely sensitive operatic music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Friday 23rd March The Reduced Shakespeare Company
inCompletely Hollywood (abridged)
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theatre... The Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare - Tinseltown! America's "bad boys of abridgement" take on America's largest export (well, except for weapons) and go about savaging show biz. They've gone Biblical, they've gone historical, now the RSC has gone completely Hollywood... abridged, of course! "It's impossible not to have a good time." Pittsburgh City Paper
Saturday 24th March Holders' Third Family Afternoon
One of the newest and mot popular of Holders events returns for a third year - music, poetry, circus, comedy - and hands on workshops aimed at the family and children aged 5 upwards. Two and half hours that show the best of the festival.
Saturday 24th March Little Theater - Comedy Night
Always one of the Holders Season's most popular evenings, the Little Theatre hosts an hour and half of top comedy. Featuring one of the UK's brightest, incisive and down-right funny stand up comedians tbc, early booking is strongly advised.
Monday 26th March The Reduced Shakespeare Company
in Completely Hollywood (abridged)
The whacky American threesome once again trash the history of Hollywood in their inimitable style
Tuesday 27th March Andre de Shields - Black by Popular Demand
The Emmy award winning Andre de Shields and his fabulous salute to the music of rhythm and blues - Rhythm and Blues as seen through a prism that turns it, twists it, laughs at it and makes use of its emotional heights but rarely deals with it in unadulterated traditional fashion. An evening of high energy, the remarkable de Shields is supported by backing vocalists and the incomparable pianistic talents of composer/arranger Joel Silberman
Thursday 29th March The American Songbook - Cabaret with Joel Silberman
The award winning broadway composer, singer and songwriter presents the glory of Tin Pan Alley. The American Songbook is the world's songbook because of the many musical cultures represented in it - a treasure trove of vaudeville hits, and the music of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Frederick Loewe and many more. The evening also features top jazz from crack Toronto based trio led by Steve Koven (piano) and featuring bassist Rob Clutton and drummer Anthony Michelli
Saturday 31st March Gala Night From Broadway to Hollywood with Sir Tim Rice
One of the greatest of all Holders evening's is recreated and updated five years on as a team of crack singers and musicians from New York's Broadway and London's West End fly in to join multi Oscar winning lyricist Tim Rice in a show compiled and directed by Hugh Woodridge with musical direction by David Firman that celebrates his extraordinary career as a writer for the musical stage and for film.
During the extended picnic break entertainment from the Steve Koven Trio
Saturday 10th March Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados
Fundraising Concert featuring The Merrymen
Certainly the Caribbean's most celebrated musical group who have appeared throughout the world from Madison Square Gardens to London's Albert Hall. Come and be entertained as royalty and heads of state have over four decades. Also featuring The Barbados Defence Force Band with their wide range of musical styles from parade music through light classics and gospel to calypso. A stunning way to get into Holders Season 2007 mood whilst supporting the Heart & Stroke Foundation
Sunday 1st April - NCF Fundraising Concert
Featuring the Barbados Boys choir, The National Youth Pan Orchestra and The National Youth Orchestra
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