The Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Total Sell-Out
Edinburgh, Scotland UK
2007 & 2009
Edinburgh, Scotland UK
2007 & 2009
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Total Sell-Out:
Be My Love, An Evening with Mario Lanza (2009)
On the fiftieth anniversary of Mario Lanza's demise, David Faulds takes centre stage in Be My Love, An Evening with Mario Lanza at The Edinburgh Festival
Fringe 2009. David Faulds is a lirico spinto tenor trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama who has recently appeared in the West End
Production of The Phantom of the Opera, West End Season for Carl Rosa Opera and in Mathilde, directed by Simon Callow, at last year's Edinburgh
Festival Fringe. The eponymous "Be My Love" was first sung by Mario Lanza in the Hollywood movie The Toast of New
Orleans. It was one of many million-seller and Billboard # 1 songs by actor and lirico spinto tenor. Mario Lanza's life was truly a Shakespearean tragedy.
The story is incredible: a kid from the streets of Philadelphia who sings better than Caruso, sets out to become a maestro, only to be seduced by
Hollywood. At the pinnacle of his career, working on the movie The Student Prince, he was fired by MGM over a dispute on the
'excess' passion he was putting into his song. This was a blow from which he never recovered; a destructive spiral into alcoholism, weight gain, and
professional turbulence ensued until his death in 1959. So, what was Mario Lanza’s personal perspective on this fast-paced, dizzying roller coaster ride?
David Faulds tells us in word and song, in a show tragic, comic and deeply, musically satisfying. "I sing from the heart... I sing the words of a song and
really feel them, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes... I sing as though my life depends on it, and if I ever stop doing that then I'll stop living"
– Mario Lanza
Brel@Breakfast (2009)
Donald Hawkins' baritone voice, passion, talent and unusual approach in Brel@Breakfast are delighting audiences across Europe.
Donald and Brel@Breakfast are coming to Edinburgh in 2009; together with his musical companions, Wim Veenhof and Mark Wyman (keyboards and
laptops), he will offer his own interpretation of some of Jacques Brel’s work. From the 1950s, Jacques Brel captured audiences with his observations of
the intricacies and nuances of daily life. His eloquence and poetry led to his reputation among the cognoscenti. Brel was the epitome of European chic
and could count David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Dusty Springfield, Marc Almond and The Dresden Dolls amongst his admirers. The seminal
songs “Amsterdam”, “Les Bourgeois” and “Madeleine” can all be enjoyed at Brel@Breakfast. Brel@Breakfast is directed by Lucas De Man, a graduate of
the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre School, and recipient of the Jong Theaterprijs at the Theater aan Zee Festival in Belgium. Lucas is artistic leader of
the international organisation for young directors and artistic director of Stichting Nieuwe Helden.
Fatboy (2007)
John Clancy's satire on modern America's insatiable appetites, where the population gobbles pork chops, sex and consumer durables while the
government gobbles up small nations, is big, broad and brash. The word "subtle" does not enter its theatrical vocabulary. This is a world where Fatboy is
a great big bully who, like the US, takes "what I want" and destroys the rest. Played as a zany Punch and Judy show, a theatre within a theatre, the piece
has some very nice touches, particularly in its play on theatrical conventions. The best moments come in a courtroom scene where Fatboy is on trial for
war crimes. The justice system proves itself incapable of standing up to his bullying tactics, and he outlines his plans for world domination "leading a
coalition of the weak and willing". - Guardianand
Be My Love, An Evening with Mario Lanza (2009)
On the fiftieth anniversary of Mario Lanza's demise, David Faulds takes centre stage in Be My Love, An Evening with Mario Lanza at The Edinburgh Festival
Fringe 2009. David Faulds is a lirico spinto tenor trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama who has recently appeared in the West End
Production of The Phantom of the Opera, West End Season for Carl Rosa Opera and in Mathilde, directed by Simon Callow, at last year's Edinburgh
Festival Fringe. The eponymous "Be My Love" was first sung by Mario Lanza in the Hollywood movie The Toast of New
Orleans. It was one of many million-seller and Billboard # 1 songs by actor and lirico spinto tenor. Mario Lanza's life was truly a Shakespearean tragedy.
The story is incredible: a kid from the streets of Philadelphia who sings better than Caruso, sets out to become a maestro, only to be seduced by
Hollywood. At the pinnacle of his career, working on the movie The Student Prince, he was fired by MGM over a dispute on the
'excess' passion he was putting into his song. This was a blow from which he never recovered; a destructive spiral into alcoholism, weight gain, and
professional turbulence ensued until his death in 1959. So, what was Mario Lanza’s personal perspective on this fast-paced, dizzying roller coaster ride?
David Faulds tells us in word and song, in a show tragic, comic and deeply, musically satisfying. "I sing from the heart... I sing the words of a song and
really feel them, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes... I sing as though my life depends on it, and if I ever stop doing that then I'll stop living"
– Mario Lanza
Brel@Breakfast (2009)
Donald Hawkins' baritone voice, passion, talent and unusual approach in Brel@Breakfast are delighting audiences across Europe.
Donald and Brel@Breakfast are coming to Edinburgh in 2009; together with his musical companions, Wim Veenhof and Mark Wyman (keyboards and
laptops), he will offer his own interpretation of some of Jacques Brel’s work. From the 1950s, Jacques Brel captured audiences with his observations of
the intricacies and nuances of daily life. His eloquence and poetry led to his reputation among the cognoscenti. Brel was the epitome of European chic
and could count David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Dusty Springfield, Marc Almond and The Dresden Dolls amongst his admirers. The seminal
songs “Amsterdam”, “Les Bourgeois” and “Madeleine” can all be enjoyed at Brel@Breakfast. Brel@Breakfast is directed by Lucas De Man, a graduate of
the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre School, and recipient of the Jong Theaterprijs at the Theater aan Zee Festival in Belgium. Lucas is artistic leader of
the international organisation for young directors and artistic director of Stichting Nieuwe Helden.
Fatboy (2007)
John Clancy's satire on modern America's insatiable appetites, where the population gobbles pork chops, sex and consumer durables while the
government gobbles up small nations, is big, broad and brash. The word "subtle" does not enter its theatrical vocabulary. This is a world where Fatboy is
a great big bully who, like the US, takes "what I want" and destroys the rest. Played as a zany Punch and Judy show, a theatre within a theatre, the piece
has some very nice touches, particularly in its play on theatrical conventions. The best moments come in a courtroom scene where Fatboy is on trial for
war crimes. The justice system proves itself incapable of standing up to his bullying tactics, and he outlines his plans for world domination "leading a
coalition of the weak and willing". - Guardianand
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