Roxmouth plays more legends

Fresh from his starring role as Che in the international tour of Evita, Jonathan Roxmouth, pictured, is back and during July and August he’s taking centre stage in two new shows at Montecasino.

First, he will star as Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire, which will deliver all Lee Lewis’ hits with Roxmouth at the piano and a six-piece band. The show features Buddy Holly stalwart, Craig Urbani, as Sam Philips and Paul Ditchfield of The Bats as Elmo Lewis. Cranking up the temperature will be Ashleigh Butcher (Rock of Ages, The Rocky Horror Show, The Adventures of Peppa Pig) as Myra Gale Lewis.

Jerry Lee Lewis is widely regarded as the real wild child of rock ’n roll. Since his meteoric rise to fame in the ’50s, he established himself as a performer of unbridled energy, passion and piano pyrotechnics.

Great Balls of Fire opens on July 18 at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre. Roxmouth follows that with four performances of The Musicals in Concert at the Teatro at Montecasino. He will perform all his Broadway favourites accompanied by a 55-piece orchestra. It will feature songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Cats, Aladdin, Chess, The Sound of Music, A Chorus Line, Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love, Love Never Dies and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. – Citizen reporter

Shows are August 17 at 8pm, August 18 at 3pm and 8pm and August 19 at 2pm.

Tickets are between R125 and R375 from Computicket.