Tell Me On A Sunday - Fri @ 8pm. Sat @ 6pm. Sat @ 8pm (Regina Malan).
Fri Apr 26, 20:00 - Sat Apr 27, 21:15
The Avalon Auditorium
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The performances are: Wed, Thu & Fri @ 8pm. Sat @ 6pm & 8pm. Sun @ 3pm & 6pm
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The Endellion Theatre Company proudly presents the West End and Broadway hit Tell Me On A Sunday with music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and lyrics by DON BLACK. On at the Avalon Auditorium (formerly the Studio at The Fugard Theatre) for a limited season from 24 - 28 April.
This iconic musical has a wonderful original score played by a live five-piece band and features the hit song ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’, which has been performed by legendary leading ladies including Marti Webb (whose original rendition soared to No.3 on the UK top 40 Chart), Sarah Brightman, Lulu and Bernadette Peters, who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in the Broadway production.
Directed by Jonathan Walker-Kane with Musical Direction by Alastair Cockburn, Tell Me On A Sunday is the story of Emma, who, brimming with excitement and optimism, sets out to seek success and love in New York. Her only connection with home is a series of letters to her mum. Forming the backbone of the musical, the letters display an unwavering cheerfulness and a very English view of the American experience.
Through a cycle of just over twenty songs, Emma explores the maze of the city. Her romantic misadventures take her to Hollywood and eventually back to Manhattan. A seemingly hopeless series of failed relationships makes her wonder whether, in fact, she has been looking for love in all the wrong places.
This reworked, one-woman, one-act production of Tell Me On A Sunday will take you on a lively, emotional, and cathartic journey of self-discovery with Emma. Don Black’s lyrics pull no punches and the musical, which has not diminished with time, features great material from two men in top form, including ‘Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad’, ‘It’s Not the End of the World … ‘If I Love Him’ … “If He’s Young’ … “If He’s Married', ‘Let’s Talk About You’, ‘Nothing Like You’ve Ever Known’ and ‘Tell Me On A Sunday’.
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Award-winning lyric soprano SIAN ATTERBURY, who has appeared on stage in many a starring role, captivating audiences time and again, will star as Emma on Wed 24th @ 8pm, Fri 26th @ 8pm, Sat 27th @ 6pm and Sun 28th @ 3pm and 6pm.
Lead roles for the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society include Gianetta in The Gondoliers (2007), Josephine in HMS Pinafore (2009), Kate in The Yeoman of the Guard (2012), Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls in (2013), Laurey Williams in Oklahoma (2014), Rose in Ruddigore (2018) and Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (2019). Sian played Head Stewardess, Emma Lewis, in the 2021 production of A Boarding Line, A Musical Extravaganza, and sang in the Heroes Gala Concert in aid of the PSFA (Peninsula School Feeding Association) in 2023. Her recording of ‘Shall We Gather At The River’ with ‘The Singing Surgeon’ Dr Wilhelm Lichtenberg and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra is available on Apple Music.
Opera singer, actress, producer and director REGINA MALAN will take the lead role of Emma on Thu 25th @ 8pm and Sat 27th @ 8pm.
A Stellenbosch University BMus alumnus, after performing in operas such as Le Nozze di Figaro and Dido and Aeneas, Regina went on to star in the plays Macbeth, Noel Coward’s Design for Living and Jane Eyre, as well as in the musicals The Full Monty, Shadows in Red Light, Public City, Seven Deadly Divas of Broadway and Thank you Mr. Sondheim, and the Musical Opera, Calling Us Home. Her other credits include Because It’s Okay I and II, Not Just Musicals and Othello: A Women’s Story, which she co-directed. Regina appeared with Sian in A Boarding Line, A Musical Extravaganza and played Mrs Medlock in The Secret Garden. She directed The Waiting Game, was the Musical Director for The Great Gatsby and Co-Director of Hairspray.
Emma will delight and entertain you with a variety of ballads, a splash of Jazz and a sprinkling of sass thrown in for good measure!
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A 10% reduction for 4 or more people is valid on the top-price seats. Click through to payment to see your reduction.
Group booking inquiries for scholars, students, seniors, fundraising and corporate events: contact Tracy Cahill at [email protected]
One act. 70 minutes without an interval.
No babes in arms. Suggested no under 12s.