Viviana Zarbo - 'I am not Marilyn'
Tue 21 Jan
|Thorpe Hall Golf Club
With Chris Neill on piano & Stephanie Legg on sax


Time & Location
21 Jan 2020, 20:00
Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Thorpe Hall Ave, Southend-on-Sea SS1 3AT, UK
About The Event
Doors 6.30pm music starts at 8pm.
"Viviana Zarbo very much knows how to hold an audience imagination… the audience could not keep their eyes from the stage" - The Jazz UK
Marilyn's icon was build upon her unique blend of childlike innocence and provocative feminine sexuality. Despite being indisputably a hugely famous actress and a "bombshell", Marilyn contributed to set the standards of the Jazz and Swing golden age of the 1940s/50s. Her breathy brassy voice singing My Heart Belongs to Daddy, I'm Through With Love or Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend is history.
Today, having premiered to sold out houses, and gained excellent reviews at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019, Viviana Zarbo reinterprets her songs - masterpieces composed by geniuses like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin - in a personal way, devoid of clichés, surrounded by two amazing jazz musicians: Chris Neill on piano and Stephanie Legg on saxophone.
Viviana creates an atmosphere in which tales…
Tickets
Non Members
£14.00
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£12.00
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Students and MU members (on presentation of relevant ID)
£10.00
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