The World of Jazz Subject of New Play at the Tabard |
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Dal Segno is set in a London club in the seventies
June 18, 2023 The next play to be performed at the Tabard Theatre will be the world premiere of Dal Segno by Joseph Morley. It is directed by Julia Faulkner for Perelia Productions. Set in London in 1979 in the gritty and entertaining world of professional musicians, it features a disparate group of seven freelance musicians who play in a resident band at a club-venue. It’s Friday night and the club is heaving but the drama takes place backstage only in the band-room. It focuses on the personalities and predicaments of these particular men; their fears, anxieties, hopes, thrills and relationships. The title comes from a direction in music to return to the sign that marks the beginning of a repeat. The play aims to provide an entertaining fly-on-the-wall glimpse inside the ‘behind-the-scenes’ world of the non-classical music profession. It plays for a limited three-week from 21 June to 8 July run as part of the Theatre at the Tabard’s current Spring/Summer Season. Joseph Morley trained in both classical and jazz piano and has had a career as a pianist, keyboard player and Music Director in all forms of commercial and popular music. He has worked in concert with artistes including Lulu, Lenny Henry, Des O’Connor and Helen Shapiro plus West End musicals including Blood Brother, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever and We Will Rock You. You can book all productions online on the Tabard Theatre web site or call the box office on 020 8995 6035 (leave a message if you can’t get through and your call will be returned). Theatre at the Tabard is at 2 Bath Road, Chiswick (W4 1LW).
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