LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – A brand new musical concerning the life and profession of legendary singer and performer Frank Sinatra will open within the British metropolis of Birmingham later this yr.
“Sinatra The Musical” will debut on the Birmingham Rep on Sept. 23, coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the “Come Fly with Me” and “New York, New York” singer’s UK tour, throughout which he carried out within the metropolis.
The story begins on New 12 months’s Eve 1942, when the then 27-year-old Sinatra took to the stage at New York’s Paramount Theatre with a efficiency that propelled him to success.
As he turns into an enormous music star, “he struggles with balancing the love of his spouse, Nancy, towards the calls for and temptations of being the most well-liked singer in America”, producers mentioned in an announcement of the present plot line.
The musical will have a look at the affect his affair with actress Ava Gardner had on his profession, and the way he staged “the best comeback in showbiz historical past”.
“I’m very happy with our new musical manufacturing and I am particularly delighted that, for the primary time, we will offer you a perspective on my father that you have by no means seen earlier than,” Sinatra’s daughter, Tina Sinatra mentioned, in an announcement.
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Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, identified for “What’s New Pussycat?” and “Memphis”, has written the guide.
“Rising up, there have been two photos hanging in my grandmother’s kitchen — The Pope and Frank Sinatra. So to take a seat down with Tina Sinatra and listen to tales of her father which nobody else is aware of, after which to have the ability to put these tales on stage – effectively I feel it will make for an sudden and thrilling new musical,” DiPietro mentioned.
“We’ll be displaying you ways the person grew to become the legend and the way the legend was — on the finish of the day — only a man.”
Sinatra, whose immediately recognisable voice received him followers around the globe with classics like “My Manner” and “Strangers within the Night time”, died in 1998.
“Sinatra The Musical”, which has Olivier and Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall on the helm, will run till Oct. 28.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Enhancing by Hugh Lawson
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