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Trumpets has announced the addition of two new shows for the closing weekend to what is fast becoming a hit musical for 2022, “Joseph The Dreamer”.
“The audience demand for tickets has surged since the opening weekend, so we decided to open two new shows to give the audience more chances to watch the musical,” shared Butch Jimenez, Head of Trumpets.
“Joseph The Dreamer” chronicles the up and down life of the well-loved Biblical character, Joseph. It is an inspiring story of faith, forgiveness, family, and the sovereignty of God. It stars Sam Concepción as Joseph, Gary Valenciano as Jacob, and Kayla Rivera as Asanath. Alternates include Neo Rivera and Audie Gemora respectively.
The additional shows are scheduled for Aug. 6, Saturday, 3 pm and Aug. 7, Sunday, 8 pm at the Maybank Theater BGC. Tickets are available at Ticketworld 8891-9999.
22 November 2019, 16:39 | Updated: 26 November 2019
Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-Ki Joo are joined by the Vienna Symphony for this hilarious Vangelis parody.
We’re rarely ones to resist an amusing musical parody, and comedy duo Igudesman & Joo’s recent orchestral take on Chariots of Fire is a hoot.
With violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-Ki Joo at the front of the stage as soloists, Vienna Symphony orchestra hilariously mimics the iconic slow-motion running scene in the opening of the 1981 film, Chariots of Fire – scored so memorably by Vangelis – by swaying about on stage (watch above).
Igudesman on violin adds the electronic whooshes, which those of you familiar with Vangelis’ track will know, with his own mic’d-up voice.
Meanwhile, Hyung-Ki Joo accompanies the whole spectacle expertly on the piano at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Igudesman & Joo perform Chariots of Fire with Vienna Symphony. Picture: Igudesman & Joo / YouTube
The fun doesn’t stop there – Chariots soon morphs into Monti’s virtuosic Czárdás, with members of the orchestra – who happen to be still standing up from the swaying antics before – fire off a skilled ensemble arrangement of the flashy piece.
Igudesman & Joo high-five as they leave stage – as would we have done had we been there.
Julie Andrews on losing her voice after an operation...
Julie Andrews lost her voice after an operation. Picture: PA
By Maddy Shaw Roberts, ClassicFM London
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After having vocal surgery to remove ‘nodules’, Julie Andrews was left with permanent damage that destroyed her four-octave soprano voice.
Julie Andrews, the 84-year-old soprano and musical theatre legend, has opened up about the 1997 operation that caused her to lose her singing voice, saying: ‘I went into a depression’.
“When I woke up from an operation to remove a cyst on my vocal cord, my singing voice was gone,” she told AARP The Magazine for their October/November 2019 issue.
“I went into a depression. It felt like I’d lost my identity.”
Andrews, who won an Academy Award for her starring role in Mary Poppins (1964), first noticed her voice was hoarse during a Broadway show in 1997.
Shortly after, she had surgery to remove what she thought were ‘non-cancerous nodules’ from her throat at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. The surgery left her with permanent damage that destroyed her voice.
Julie Andrews had surgery that permanently destroyed her singing voice. Picture: Getty
In 1999, Andrews filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital. The lawsuit was settled in September 2000.
Ten years later, the Sound of Music actress revealed that she did not have cancer or nodules but was suffering from ‘a certain kind of muscular striation’ on her vocal cords, after straining her voice while making Victor/Victoria – the 1982 comedy directed by her late husband, Blake Edwards.
Andrews has since had several unsuccessful operations to repair her voice. Fortunately, around the time of operation, a new path opened up for the singer.
“But by good fortune,” she tells AARP, “That’s when my daughter Emma and I had been asked to write books for kids,” she said. “So along came a brand-new career in my mid-60s. Boy, was that a lovely surprise.”
“But do I miss singing,” she added. “Yes. I really do.
“I would have been quite a sad lady if I hadn’t had the voice to hold on to. The singing was the most important thing of all, and I don’t mean to be Pollyanna about how incredibly lost I’d have been without that.”
Julie Andrews is best known for her role as Maria in The Sound of Music (1965). Picture: 20th Century Fox
On being cast as Mary Poppins – her feature film debut – she said: “I don’t know what P.L. Travers [the author of the Mary Poppins books] thought. She said to me, ‘You’re very pretty, and you’ve got the nose for it.’ I’m sure she laughed all the way to the bank. She was very tough and canny.”
Now, Julie is starring in the TV series Bridgerton and has a new book coming out on 15 October, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.
But it seems those aren’t the only plans on the horizon for the singer.
“I’d love to be able to paint,” she tells AARP. “I’d love to be a good cook, but I’m rotten. I don’t have the patience for it. But I have to say, I’m a very good whistler. A lot of singers are.”
