Celebrating music’s tragic stars
The team that brought you the Tom Waits seventies retrospective, Heart of Saturday Night, last year is back with another great music show, Who Wants to Live Forever.
Focusing on tragic young rock stars, including Buddy Holly, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Michael Hutchence, the music will be performed by Brian Bedingfield, Gareth Barry, Roly Struckmeyer, Paddy Austin and Mark Butler, with Kath McClelland on raw and raunchy Joplinesque vocals.
The show is set in a clinic where we meet musicians and dancers struggling with a number of ailments.
As stories are shared about the likes of Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, all of whom died in a plane crash, and members of the
27 Club - an informal list consisting of musicians who died at the age of 27 - those in need of help find solace in the songs.
Along the way, patrons also get to enjoy some beautiful dancing Nadja Bartel and Bonwa Mbontsi. Grande dame, Dee Bedingfield, appears in a memorable character cameo.
Who Wants To Live Forever, which is written by Rob Boyd and directed by Paul Spence, will be staged at La Petite Café on the Karkloof Road, outside Howick, on Saturday, November 26. Show times are at 3pm and 7pm.
Tickets are R150 (pensioners R100) and can be booked with Dee at 084 555 6830.Bring your own drinks and picnics. Cheese platters are available on request from the Café.