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HIT TOUR REACHES ITS CLIMAX IN BRISBANE
‘The Dream Tour’ The Concert Hall QPAC, Sat 4 July 8pm
The ‘Dream Tour – Cliff & the Shadows & the Big O’ appropriately reaches its climax in
Brisbane on July 4 and there promises to be ‘fireworks’ for the final show of the tour.
This highly successful concert tour starring Australian music legend Marty Rhone and
the ‘new Roy Orbison’, the amazing Dean Bourne, started back on April 4 and has
visited every capital in every state except the NT. Ticket sales have been even bigger
than for last year’s hugely successful 50th Anniversary Cliff & the Shadows tribute tour
resulting in the concert moving into the much larger Concert Hall at QPAC to meet the
greater demand for tickets.
It took many attempts and considerable persuasion to convince Rhone to embrace a
50th Anniversary tribute to music icon Sir Cliff Richard and the Shadows and he only
gave his nod on condition he would do it his way and not pretend to be Cliff Richard.
On
the Dream Tour he is joined by Dean
Bourne who has been described as an
amazing talent’ by Australian radio personality Alan Jones, and A J Ferris who
recreates the unmistakable Hank B Marvin Shadows sound.
Rhone has survived a lifetime of personal and professional challenges to find himself
back on top of the entertainment tree with sell out concert tours, an ABC TV Special
earlier this year and his first major film roll in ‘Nude Study’
Fed up with the attitude of Australian promoters towards local artists and their belief
that more mature locally based acts can’t fill theatre venues Rhone, with his new
management team, has assumed business and artistic control over his affairs drawing
on his many years of experience as a producer of successful charity events such as
the Desperate & Dateless Balls and ROCKINC which he produced for Olivia Newton-
John’s charity at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.
The man who has shared the stage with the Rolling Stones, the late Yul Brynner, John
Denver & Peter Allen is on his second national tour of Australia in 12 months, following
his sell out 2008 tour to theatre venues around Australia.
After five decades in show
business this is quite an achievement for the artist who had the mega hits
Denim &
Lace and A Mean Pair of Jeans.
Rhone was recently described as a ‘darling of the YAH generation’ (young at heart). It
might best be summed up in the words of one female concert fan in Melbourne who
remarked “Marty Rhone is better than Botox - Botox makes you look good! Marty
Rhone made me feel young!”
Rhone’s audiences today are a mixture of the old, the in between and the young;
mothers bringing mostly their daughters to see the man whose picture they had on their
bedroom walls in those halcyon days of Countdown. But it is the quality of his shows
that has audiences admiring his presentation, energy, youthfulness and the quality of
his singing voice.
This world class All Australian production has already had the Manager of the
Laycock Theatre in NSW remark “This is the first time EVER we have had so much
positive feedback about a show.”
Media enquiries & interview opportunities with Marty Rhone, can be arranged by
contacting: Ben Maiorana, Maiorana Marketing 0409 988747
benmaiorana@bigpond.com Please advise if you would like an image sent.
DATE
VENUE
Saturday 4 April
Laycock St Theatre Gosford
Saturday 18 April
Gold Coast Arts Centre
Saturday 9 May 09
Melbourne : The Palms at Crown
Saturday 16 May 09
Sydney : State Theatre
Saturday 23 May 09
Canberra : Canberra Playhouse
Saturday 30 May 09
Newcastle : Civic Theatre
Saturday 06 June 09
Adelaide: Her Majesty’s Theatre
Saturday 13 June 09
Penrith : Evan Theatre NSW
Saturday 20 June 09
Perth : Burswood Theatre
Saturday 4 July 09
Brisbane : QPAC Concert Hall
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