(Tonya
Koenderman)
Popular cabaret artist Tonya Koenderman presents
a tribute to the exciting jazz era, as well as to the music that lives on today
as much as it did in the 30s and 40s.
The year is 1935 and the music is jazz! Names
such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Duke
Ellington rule the music scene, despite a very racially-divided America. The
likes of Louis Armstrong even got to sit in white-only restaurants as well as
access to the upper echelons of American society because of his abundant talent
and charm. Such was the power of this vibrant new style of music they called
“Jazz”. This did not sit well with his fellow African Americans, however, who
regarded him as an “Uncle Tom”, seemingly participating in the oppression of
his own group.
In her latest one-woman show, the lively
and vivacious Tonya Koenderman gives her own touch of magic to classics such as
Honeysuckle Rose, Hit Me With a Hot Note,
Feeling Good, Summertime, Fascinating Rhythm, The Blues In the Night, Somewhere
over the Rainbow, and many more!
Staged and choreographed by Johannesburg
based choreographer, Nicol Sheraton, the show promises to be a jazz delight
from start to finish with all the glamour and glitz that befits that era.
When
Jazz Was King runs over two weekends from March 29
to April 7 with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 20h00 and Sunday shows
starting at 18h30. The venue opens 90 minutes before show for picnic dinner. Tickets
R100 (first weekend only: R75pp pensioners and tables of eight or more).
Take along food picnic baskets and braais
will be available. There is limited secure parking and booking is essential. A
cash bar is available (no alcohol may be brought on to the premises). Rhumbelow
Theatre is situated in Cunningham
Avenue off Bartle Road.
Booking is through Computicket or contact
Roland on 031 205 7602 (h) or 082 499 8636, email roland@stansell.za.net or visit www.rhumbelow.za.net
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