[Showtuners] Celebrate Judy Garland's 86 Birthday with her daughter this weekend - special thank you OZ offer!

[News from Showtune Productions]

Dear Showtuners, 

 

Yesterday June 10 was Judy Garland's 86 Birthday, so come and join us with
her daughter Lorna Luft celebrate this amazing woman's talent and legacy
this weekend.  

 

The tour has been a great success with two shows sold out this weekend at
the Adelaide Cabaret Festival  (an additional matinee has been added) and a
special final performance of 'SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME' at Her Majesty's
Theatre in Melbourne this Sunday. Lorna's final show will be at The Civic
Theatre in Newcastle on 16th June. 

 

As a special thank you we are offering $5 off all A Reserve seats to SONGS
MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME in MELBOURNE and INTIMATE AND EXCLUSIVE in Newcastle.
Just click on the posters or the links below to book with this offer online.

 

It has been an absolute delight touring Ms Luft and her professionalism and
tremendous humour has taught me heaps, ah the biz we call show! 

 

Do not miss Lorna if you haven't caught her, I include John Shand's
wonderful review from the Sydney Morning Herald, she is truly a wonderful
artist, generously sharing her amazing mothers legacy. 

 

Sincerely

 

David Hawkins

Artistic Director

www.showtune.com.au 

 

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD REVIEW

A daughter holds Garland legacy aloft

Reviewed by John Shand
June 2, 2008

Lorna Luft, City Recital Hall, May 31

Two years ago Lorna Luft stopped shying away from her mother's songs, and
confronted them. Head on. How else could you do it, when your mother is Judy
Garland?

The result, Songs My Mother Taught Me, is a strutting, swaggering rampage
through the Garland repertoire, strewn with anecdotes and splattered with a
few tears.

The show is a masterclass in construction: in contouring the song sequence,
in making scripted patter sound spontaneous, in integrating patter and songs
and, above all, in slick musical direction, courtesy of Luft's husband,
Colin Freeman.

None of that would count had Luft not been blessed with a voice the size of
Caesar's Palace, and, as genetics would have it, not dissimilar to her
mother's. Performing these songs it is neither a very subtle nor an
especially moving instrument, but it blasts across an 11-piece band with a
vibrato as wide as a freeway, making her the very model of the genus known
as "belter", and the very definition of chutzpah.

That's those genes at work again. And in case you missed the connection,
Judy routinely appears on a big screen, including singing to a young Lorna
at the outset. Garland had made 39 movies by the time she was 37, a freakish
statistic when combined with the myriad live shows and radio broadcasts.
Luft, who was only 16 when she lost her mother, tells what it's like to
forever run into her in greeting-card shops and on television.

She duetted with her mother on a medley including I Can't Give You Anything
But Love, and then gave a squalling Chicago, with the locally assembled band
pin-sharp and sounding twice its size in a flawless Recital Hall sound-mix.


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LORNA LUFT
Exclusive and Intimate

16 June 2008 @ 8pm 
Civic Theatre
NEWCASTLE
Phone Bookings (02) 49291977 

 

SPECIAL ONLINE ONLY DISCOUNT

For $5 off A Reserve seats click below or on image



 

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&sh=LORNAL08

 

LORNA LUFT
in
SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME 

Celebrating her mother JUDY GARLAND
Written & Directed by Ken & Mitzie Welch
Arranged/Orchestrated/Conducted by Colin R Freeman



15 June 2008 @ 5pm
Her Majesty's Theatre
MELBOURNE
Phone Bookings: 1300 795 012 

 

SPECIAL ONLINE ONLY DISCOUNT

For $5 off A Reserve seats click below or on image

 

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&sh=SONGSMYM08

 

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