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Who stars in the Adelaide season of Looking Through a Glass Onion?
Messenger Community News has eight double passes to give away to John Waters’ critically acclaimed production Looking Through A Glass Onion on Saturday, January 22, at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
The show is a homage to the music, mystery and memory of John Lennon.
“Glass Onion” was created by Waters and D’Arrietta back in January 1992 as a two man show and had a five week run in a small cabaret room at the Tilbury Hotel in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo. The show was an instant success.
In 1994 they toured the show around Australia, took a trip to New York to gain Yoko Ono’s approval and performed a three month season in the West End, London. “Glass Onion” has since successfully toured the country in 2001/02 and 2004.
The show is not a cut-and-paste biography of Lennon or an emulation of the original recordings. On stage, with shadows from the lighting arrangement fluttering over his face as he explores the essence of the man through song and spoken word, Waters, becomes synonymous with Lennon. He shies away from imitating the artist, but so emotive is his performance, it lulls the audience into believing anything is possible. Its part concert and part biography, though it doesn’t seek to tell the full story of Lennon’s life.
“Rather than to impersonate, I wanted to evoke his honesty, bitter-sweet humour, self criticism and disdain for pretentiousness and pomposity,” says Waters.
“The song Glass Onion was John Lennon’s postscript to The Beatles. ``It had such a strong image of crystal ball-gazing and peeling away the layers that it inspired the format for this show - a kaleidoscopic collage of song, word, emotion and image,” agrees D’Arrietta with Waters.
For the audience this is either an emotional trip down memory lane or a wonderful introduction to the life and times of one of the most fascinating icons of our time.
When you combine Waters’ unique performance as Lennon with the brilliant musical backing, you have an entertainment experience that should not be missed by anyone who has been touched by or intrigued by the legend of John Lennon and The Beatles.
With 31 songs performed including, ‘A Day in The Life’, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds’, ‘Working Class Hero’, ‘Imagine’ and more, this is a show for all ages. The music is delivered superbly by The Glass Onion Band that is lead by Stewart D’Arrietta (keys) and features some of Australia’s finest musicians, including former Sherbet bassist Tony Mitchell(who also co-wrote ‘Howzat’), drummer Greg Henson (Jon English, and the original Jesus Christ Superstar) and guitarist Paul Berton (Jimmy Barnes and Renee Geyer).
The promotion is open to South Australian residents. Be sure to leave a daytime phone number and address.
Entries open at 6pm on Tuesday, January 11, and close at 9am on Tuesday, January 18.
Winners will be contacted and their names will be published online by Thursday, January 21.
Winners will be given 3 days from the date of notification to collect or arrange the receipt of their prizes.
One entry per person please. Prizes are not transferable.
The trader is Messenger Community News Pty Ltd, PO Box 339, Adelaide 5001.
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