IRVING BERLIN – Songs In The Key Of Black - Starring Lucy Maunder
The shadowy alleys and darkest dive saloons of Old New York City are born again by the ultimate lady of the nightLucy Maunder (The Threepenny Opera, Doctor Zhivago, A Little Night Music) and The Bowery Bandsmenas they defiantly unplug and reboot the decadence and danger of last century’s greatest song writer…Irving Berlin. Come to a Honky Tonk Palace of broken dreams and melodiedmemories of… ‘BLUE SKIES’ ‘ALEXANDER’S RAG TIME BAND’ ‘CHEEK TO CHEEK’ PUTTING ON THE RITZ’ WHAT’LL I DO?’ ‘HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN?’ ‘I LOVE A PIANO’
IRVING BERLIN – SONGS IN THE KEY OF BLACK premiered in Leura in the Blue Mountains in March 2012. Since then it has played at the Slide Bar in Sydney, The Noosa International Arts Festival, The Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane and Her Majesty’s Theatre in Perth.
‘A model of sensual intelligence and her singing is very fine.’ The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Lucy Maunder is exquisite.’ TIME OUT
‘Maunder sings most attractively with a velvety lower register and works gracefully.’ The Australian
