UPCOMING SHOWS AT KBT

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RAPID FIRE FAIRYTALES

with GAVIN BONNER

SUNDAY, MARCH 04, 2012 @ 19h30

TICKETS – R75.00

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Now resident in Cape Town,  Gavin Bonner presents “RAPID FIRE FAIRYTALES” at KBT for one night only !  He combines his skills as a percussionist, storyteller, comedian and astounding improvisational poet into one show. He has performed over 150 times around South African and the UK in the past year and no two shows are ever the same ! How does he do it ? Come and see for yourself , as top SA comedian Mark Sampson wrote in the Herald ” Seriously, seeing is believing “. The show will include material from his new album ” Of Beasts and Kings, Skins and Strings ” which will be available on the night and at Kalk Bay Books. For more information and audio/video of Gavin please visit www.gavinbonner.com.

“Stories have many feet. Gavin Bonner , a Londoner living in Cape Town , gives them wings” – Kgomotso Moncho in Argus

“Can you afford to miss Gavins show?  I think not !”  – Jenny Crws Williams on Talk Radio 702

“The most mystifying talent I have seen in 6 Years of Grahamstown Festival . Seriously, seeing is believing ” – Mark Sampson in The Herald

“COWARD & COLE”

featuring GODFREY JOHNSON & ROLAND PEROLD

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 07 to 24, 2012

Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h30

Matinee : March 18 at 14h30

TICKETS – R95 [SHOW ONLY]

  BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

COWARD & COLE : JOHNSON & PEROLD.  Two of the most popular composers performed by two of the best piano men around.    Four hands, two pianos, one evening of frightfully good entertainment!

Eagerly awaited is the new cabaret “Coward & Cole” to be seen at Kalk Bay Theatre in March 2012.    Featuring the talented fingers and voices of Godfrey Johnson and Roland Perold, this new two piano collection of timeless masterpieces highlights the best of an era; filled with witticisms, social commentary and clever word play.

Contemporaries from across the Atlantic, Noël Coward and Cole Porter were masters of their craft when it came to hitting a nerve with just the right amount of sarcasm and irony. See classics like “Mrs Worthington”, “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”, “Let’s Do It” and “Love for Sale” reinterpreted and showcased in a way that delights stalwart fans as well as a new generation of followers.

ROLSKA Productions, producers of the smash hit musical “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” and also the award winning song cycle “Edges” is proud to present Godfrey Johnson, who has performed over 20 one man shows nationally and internationally, and the handsome Roland Perold, exciting new triple threat, in this never before seen combination. Coward & Cole runs for 65min without an interval, bookings at www.kbt.co.za

NOEL COWARD – “I believe that life is for living, don’t you? . . . It’s difficult to know what else one could do with it!”.

Of COWARD – “There are probably greater painters than Noël, greater novelists than Noël, greater librettists, greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater comedians, greater tragedians, greater stage producers, greater film directors, greater cabaret artists, greater TV stars. If there are, they are fourteen different people. Only one man combined all fourteen different labels – The Master.” : Lord Louis Mountbatten

COLE PORTER – When Frank Sinatra first met Cole Porter, he said “Mr. Porter, I greatly admire your talent and your songs ” to which Porter replied, “Well then, why don’t you sing them as I wrote them?”

of COLE – “In a way no other songs of the period quite did, Porter’s created a world. It was a between–the–wars realm of drop–dead chic and careless name–dropping insouciance. And it was a sexy place to be invited.”: Walter Clemons, in Vanity Fair.

A GREEN NUMBER

featuring ROBERT-IAN CALDWELL & JEFF JUDGE

SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012 @ 19h30

TICKETS – R80 [SHOW ONLY]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Robert-Ian Caldwell & Jeff Judge perform the musical revue,  A GREEN NUMBER, a collection of inconsequential sketches: mainly musical, with the occasional monologue.   Caldwell is on stage, song and sedation: Judge does keys, saxophone and vocals.    Caldwell has never run a Comrades Marathon (Judge has one under his belt) – but the 2011 Festival was his 10th Grahamstown Festival Fringe appearance, over some 25 years: hence A GREEN NUMBER.      The tunes are borrowed and are well-known. The lyrics are largely original: although successive SA governments have made script-writing a cinch.     Experience decomposed Broadway musicals; politicians new and old; Dalai diversions; name changes, polluted rivers and speedy locomotives; cats & dogs, nightingales & white-ants; applied tartan dyslexia; and a health-care section that should relieve depression.

SOME REVIEWS -

“These two entertainers treat their audience to a range of great pieces, with clever original lyrics and a good measure of mirth. It’s hard to write this, I can’t see through the tears of laughter. Good music, good show!” Lee-Ann Knowles, Cue, Sunday July 3.

“It is perhaps the lively rapport they share that makes their two-man act such a hit… they offered their versions of a wide range of popular songs….their humour had its roots in an era when clever wit was greatly prized and appreciated.” Judi Davis: South Coast Herald, July 29, 2011

“Prince Charles and Camilla, O. R. Tambo Airport and a host of African politicians got a bit of a roasting in Robert-Ian Caldwell and Jeff Judge’s new show, A Green Number, when it was staged at the Hexagon Dive last week… During the course of a fun-filled evening, Caldwell and Judge also took the mickey out of medical maladies and the gentleman’s game of cricket and even provided a hysterical new take on Cinderella. The two men enjoyed a successful run at the Grahamstown Festival earlier this year, and judging by the belly laughs and grins on the faces of those at the Dive last week, they scored a hit back home too.” – Estelle Sinkins, The Witness, 17 Nov 2011

COOKED – THEATRE FOR CHILDREN

with ALEX TOPS & RICHARD LOTHIAN

MARCH 24 to APRIL 09, 2012

Daily at 11h00

TICKETS – R55 [SHOW ONLY]

BOOKING : www.kbt.co.za

Cooked up by Follow Spot Productions, “COOKED” is a show dedicated to the young and the young at heart, a two hander physical theatre comedy for all ages from 2 to 92 revolving around a live cooking show crammed into 45 mins of mess and mayhem.  Enjoy a dish of manic mess and mayhem with the well oiled duo, Richard Lothian and Alex Tops, display their renowned family entertainment skills keeping the young ones captivated and the mums and dads rolling with laughter. A handful of acrobatics, a dash of disaster and a gallon of fun makes “COOKED” a recipe of theatrics not to be missed …  Can you handle the heat in this kitchen?

IMAGININGS

with Stuart Lightbody

MARCH 28 – 31, 2012 @ 20h30 & APRIL 01, 2012 @ 19h30

Tickets : R85

60 minutes – All Ages

BOOK : www.kbt.co.za

Sleight of hand expert Stuart Lightbody brings his new show “IMAGININGS” to Kalk Bay Theatre for five shows only from march 28 to April 01, 2012.

 As a child, Stuart picked up a pack of cards and has never put them down. His early interest soon grew into fascination and a deep passion for the secretive arts of magic and misdirection. He enrolled at the College of Magic, graduating in 2001 with the highest honours and where he now teaches. Stuart has won numerous awards and competitions and performed extensively locally and internationally, including representing South Africa at the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas in 2005 and at the World Magic Championships in Sweden in 2006. Earlier this year, he lectured and performed at the International Magic Experience in Las Vegas, USA.

Stuart’s show credits include  52, Sleight of Mind with fellow psychological illusionist Bryan Miles, Telling Lies and Stuperstition. He can be found entertaining anywhere from theatres and comedy clubs to receptions and dinner parties to corporate launches and conferences. Guests that Stuart has had the pleasure of entertaining include such esteemed company as former SA Rugby Captain Francois Pienaar and Nobel Peace Prize winner FW de Klerk.

“Miss this one and [just like last time] you’ll curse your luck”