An evening of music by Irving Berlin

Equally at home on Broadway or in Hollywood, Berlin wrote scores for classic musicals, including the phenomenally successful Annie Get Your Gun, and movies such as Top Hat, There’s No Business Like Showbusiness and White Christmas.

In a newly compiled musical celebration Let’s Face The Music and Dance, three singers tell stories about love, life and laughter, through songs drawn from this prolific composer's extraordinary repertoire.

Audiences are enjoying enduring hits such as There May Be Trouble Ahead, Cheek to Cheek, Ragtime Band, White Christmas and, of course, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, pictured above right.

The cast includes Helen Anker (Parade at the Donmar Warehouse), Edward Baker-Duly, pictured left, and Melanie La Barrie (Mary Poppins and Les Miserables).

Edward, who lives at Lee-on-Solent and has a host of West End TV and film credits to his name including Grange Hill and Gone With the Wind, told Scene South: “It’s an incredible show. There are songs which are very familiar which we get people singing or even whistling along to, but equally there are songs which have not been heard for 40 or 50 years that have been dug out of the British Library especially for this.

Irving Berlin was a wonderful lyricist and this is a feelgood celebration of him and his work. It works really well at The Playhouse because it’s such a lovely intimate venue that it almost feels like you’re doing it in your front room.”

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