Centrestage's 'Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight'

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14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015
Centrestage's 'Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight'

Centrestage’s brand new Phil Collins show ‘In the Air’.

Phil Collins takes Centrestage as PE’s premier entertainment company announces its most ambitious show to date, ‘In the Air Tonight’, slated to run at the Boardwalk Amphitheatre in PE from 14 to 17 October and at The Venue at Hemingways in East London from 10 - 12 December.

The role of the Genesis drummer will be played by ex-Eminent Child front-man Brad Peens and musical director Wayne Kallis respectively, backed by a 13-piece Centrestage band, with a four piece brass sectioned modelled on Collin’s famous Paris live performances.

‘Brad has matured immeasurably as a singer and his voice is a perfect tonal match for the softer edged Collins material, while Wayne tackles the rockier material with his usual aplomb’, says show originator Gary Hemmings.

The show includes a number of firsts: This is the first time that Centrestage pays tribute Phil Collin’s, the show features the novel introduction of two drum kits performing at the same time as Kevin Mattheus and Devon Van Rooyen open the show with the traditional explosion of percussion, as well as including the biggest lineup presented in a show to date!

Shawn Lyon heads up the brass section, with Marlon Louis and Kyle Du Preez on trombone, and the show introduces Andrea Morris on sax and vocals.

The ace keyboard duo of Fenlin Pitie and Deborah Everard will reunite, along with bass player Andrew Warneke, guitarist Arno Erasmus, with Tara-Jane Metzler back on vocals.

Phil Collins is one of the most successful songwriters and performers of all time, singing the lead vocals on dozens of hit albums and singles in the UK and the US between 1976 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis.

He is one of only three recording artists (along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson) who have sold over 100 million albums worldwide both as solo artists and (separately) as principal members of a band!

The Phil Collins songbook reads like a hit parade in its own right, with no less than 29 beloved songs being featured.

Songs such as ‘Easy Lover’, ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’, ‘You’ll Be in My Heart’, ‘Separate Lives’, ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’, ‘Against All Odds’, ‘Groovy Kind of Love’ and ‘Another Day in Paradise’, amongst others, will be covered by Brad Peens.

Kallis kicks in with the rockier edged material, covering evergreens such as ‘Sussudio’, ‘I Wish It would Rain’, ‘In The Air Tonight’, ‘I Can’t Dance’ , ‘Invisible Touch’, ‘Abacab’ and ‘One More Night’.

“With the majority of musicians in the band also being strong vocalists, we are also taking on the show-stopping mainly acapella version of Cindy Lauper’s True Colours, taken from Collin’s Farewell Tour. This beautiful and complex vocal arrangement took me a couple of days to arrange and will extend the performers to their limits” says musical director Kallis.

Tickets for ‘Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight’ are R150 per person or R140 per person for eight or more and can be booked at Computicket or by calling Wendy on 082 661 6921.

Organizations interested in using the show to raise funds can call Jessica at Centrestage on 041-3683093 for more information.

Contact Details

Contact Person: Wendy
Telephone: +27 (0) 82 661 6921
Cellphone: +27 (0) 82 661 6921
Website: http://online.computicket.com/web/event/phil_collins_in_the_air_tonight/938918886/0/66903300
Email: jessica@centrestage.co.za

Where

Venue: Sun Boardwalk Amphitheatre
Event Address: Marine Drive
Port Elizabeth
6019
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