Hot Stuff!
Last updated: 03/10/2006 - 09:24
Take one smash hit West End & Broadway musical, add a decade-defining soundtrack, some slick moves and ‘that’ suit and you’re in for one ultimate disco extravaganza.
The legend that is Saturday Night Fever has been spinning the West End into a disco inferno since it returned to London in July 2004 following a sell out UK tour. This production has now been seen by a staggering ¾ million people, including a record-breaking 2300 audience members tearing up the dance floor at the Apollo Victoria each Saturday night (the largest audience total of any current West End show).
As The Mary Tyler Moore Show made the world laugh, kids roller-skated for their lives and some people got a little too attached to their CB radios, one film eclipsed all others, Saturday Night Fever. In Brooklyn, Tony Manero is a humble paint store clerk by day, but after dark he becomes the polyester-clad stallion king of the local nightclub.
Flares
Every Saturday night Tony slips into his flares, pulls on his huge-collared shirt and hits the streets to prove he can walk the walk, talk the talk and most definitely dance the moves. Each week he parts the dance floor like the red sea as the club falls under the spell of the thumping disco beat and Tony’s phenomenal routines. But as the club lights snap on at the end of the night and the real world returns, Tony and his disco obsessed friends must face the sometimes harsh truth of growing up in the tough urban jungle of New York.
Featuring a dozen Top 10 Bee Gee disco classics, including: Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, How Deep is Your Love, You Should Be Dancing, If I Can’t Have You, Tragedy, Disco Inferno, Jive Talkin’ and To Love Somebody, Saturday Night Fever brings the mean streets of New York City to life in an explosion of hot-stepping, glitter-ball spinning action. Originally premiered at the London Palladium back in 1998, this multi-million pound production has gone on to conquer Broadway and cities across the globe as the world remembers why it fell in love with Saturday Night Fever.
Here’s what the critics have made of this smash-hit show:
“The audience were up on their feet and boogying ecstatically during the prolonged encores.” - The Daily Telegraph.
“There is a danger of a foot-tapping, hip-swaying, finger-snapping epidemic breaking out” - News of the World.
“Hot stuff any night of the week.” – The Times.
“Staggering, magnificent and spectacular” – London listings magazine Time Out.
“Stunningly choreographed...an all out retro romp” – Metro.
“Slick and spectacular...an addictive spectacle” - The Guardian.
“This sassy revival is a dance fest to make your feet ache” - The Sun.
Now Australian musical theatre star Adam Jon Fiorentino has joined the current West End company following his critically acclaimed performance as Tony Manero in the Australasian production of the show, recently seen by ½ million people. His West End debut – he had previously starred in the Australian productions of hit musicals Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Cats, Mamma Mia and The Boy From Oz, and in the roles of Carlos in The Tribe and Casper Mack in Neighbours on TV around the world.
Adam Spiegel, producer of Saturday Night Fever, said: “We are delighted that Adam Jon has joined the cast of Saturday Night Fever. He is a huge talent and already has a loyal following in Australia which I’m sure will get a lot bigger when he makes his UK debut!”
From the producers of the smash hit Fame - The Musical (and in association with record industry impresario and Hollywood producer Robert Stigwood) Saturday Night Fever fuses a blistering soundtrack with some of the most groundbreaking choreography ever seen in musical theatre. The show comes from renowned Director and Choreographer Arlene Philips, star of BBC TV’s Strictly Come Dancing and Strictly Dance Fever, and features some of the country’s hottest young performers and one of the best live bands around. Saturday Night Fever is a show for all the family because whether it’s your first time or you were there when it all began, disco never looked or sounded this good...
Released in 1977 - the same year as Star Wars - the movie Saturday Night Fever made Oscar-nominee John Travolta an instant Hollywood legend. The multi Grammy-Award winning music, written by the Bee Gees, became the definite disco soundtrack and the film captured the imagination of millions, making it the iconic movie for a generation. It remains the best selling motion picture soundtrack of all time and songs from it regularly feature in 'Top Ten' all-time lists.
The West End production of Saturday Night Fever has now ended at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Street, London - as has the current UK and Irish tour. Watch this space - and the Saturday Night Fever website - for further productions and tours!
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