POPULAR singing team The Seven Sopranos are invariably seen on stage in elegant, full-length opera-style gowns.
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But for their current touring show, Songs from Stage and Screen, they are back in the 1950s, with flirtatious fluttering petticoats, bright nylon stockings, killer high heels and eye-popping lipstick.
The Seven Sopranos have been wowing Australian radio listeners on Saturday nights for the past five years, and this new stage show draws on their hit 2016 album Popcorn – Songs from Stage and Screen.
The album makes it clear why the hit numbers in 1950s musical stage shows and films helped to establish the careers of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, and to negate the unhappy predictions of wireless broadcasters that the rise of television would lead to the death of radio.
Songs from Stage and Screen includes numbers such as Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend (sung by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and I Got Rhythm from the Gershwin Brothers stage musical Girl Crazy, which featured in several films, including Gene Kelly’s An American in Paris.
There’s also Big Spender, from the 1960s musical Sweet Charity; Hello, Young Lovers, from The King and I; and, among others, I Enjoy Being a Girl and Fly Me to the Moon.
Songs from Stage and Screen will appear at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday, April 17 at 8pm. Call into the box office, phone 4993 4266 or visit cessnockperformingartscentre.com.au for tickets.
