Bacharach Reimagined...
Effortlessly Cool...
A seriously fun evening with Templeton Events...
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Blog Updated 22 Feb 2016...
We were delighted that the Burt Bacharach show "What's it all about" was renamed to "Close to You", its planned showing duration extended and the show transferred to the wonderful west end theatre "The Criterion" where show played until 14th February. It was our pleasure to design an event around the show where our client and guests stayed at the Five Star Metropolitan Hotel on London's Park Lane. Please see the below itinerary for the evening...
Arrival at Metropolitan Hotel
19 Old Park Lane, London W1K 1LB
14:00 Check-in opens
16:00 Rendezvous in your reserved area of The Met Bar for Master Mixologist Cocktail Making & Tasting Class
17:00 Three course pre-theatre dinner served in your private dining room
18:40 Prepare to depart for The Criterion Theatre
18:50 Depart Hotel
19:30 Close to You curtain up
Champagne Interval
22:05 Show ends. Return to Hotel
Post theatre buffet and refreshments in your reserved private area
Late Retire to your executive room for overnight stay
Sunday Full English breakfast available until 11.00
Midday Check out
Bags can be left in storage for those who wish to explore nearby Bond Street
Event feedback comments include:
“I just wanted to Thank You and Lucy Electric again for an Absolutely Fantastic weekend which we thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end!
The experience Exceeded Expectations in every way! The hotel, the hospitality, the food, the theatre – Everything was sensational.
The organization was superb and myself and Baz had an Extraordinary experience.
We feel very honoured to have been invited to such a calibre of event and once again, Thank you for the efforts that everyone went to, too make it such a special weekend.”
Operations Director - Stone
“Thank you so much for the invite to London over the weekend.
I have to say that I am fortunate enough to be invited to a number of corporate events but this event was one of the best I have ever attended. Claire and I had a fabulous time.
The organisation and attention to detail was superb. To be sat on the stage is something we will “dine out” on for many years.
Please pass on my gratitude to Justin and Robin – nothing was too much trouble.
Again, thank you and I look forward to catching up with you all soon.”
J B
Group Managing Director
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Before the show we all enjoyed a delicious early dinner at Hutong at the Shard before the short stroll over to the very cosy Menier Chotolate Factory Theatre...
Burt Bacharach’s songs are exquisitely beautiful emotional bombs that evoke an era that could possibly have been the swinging sixties, but probably some other scene too hip to ever have been part of before it was over.
Each song is quite distinct from any of his others, so that one could easily be forgiven for not realising it was written and arranged by the same man even though it becomes obvious with hindsight that only one man could have conceived them.
It was as though he had discovered the source of the themes of popular songs- dancing, flirting, desire, unrequited love, love and rejection, sexiness or despair- and let the listener feel these sensations as intensely as if for the first time, over and over again.
You really should have been there. we were, last Friday, in a former Chotolate Factory in Southwark called the Menier Theatre on a sofa in a timeless Grenwich Village bar, spotlit by borrowed furniture lamps so that you could barely make out the band’s instruments. So dreamlike it could have been the set of a theatre show, so intimate it should have been a love nest.
Burt Bacharach described Kyle Riabko’s ‘What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined’ as a love letter to him and that is the most accurate review I can think of.
Riabko and the rest of the cast are so multi-talented in their singing, dancing, musicianship and posing that it makes the suspension of belief so irresistible that you feel as if you have become part of the Bacharach cognoscenti - the “in crowd”, gathered around to hear his latest song, where he wrote it.
The classics; ‘Walk On By’, ‘Say A Little Prayer’, ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ et al; are showcased in a seamless cavalcade of vignettes each celebrating the unique atmosphere of the individual song and bringing a deeper appreciation of Bacharach’s craft. Above all though is the romance, the smooth giddy romance of the moment, the swift delusional romance that can’t last forever. But at least you can say you were there.
After the show we retired to the bar at our Park Lane hotel for finger buffet and drinks until late in the knowledge our comfortable rooms were just a short stroll away ...
Effortlessly cool...
Anastacia McCleskey sings "Don't make me over"...
I knew in the moment I was witnessing something very special.
This lady sings with the veracity and passion of Dionne Warwick.
For those of you who do not know the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David and are wondering...
"What's it all about"?
We suggest you might enjoy at the below recording of Trijntje Oosterhuis "Best Of Burt Bacharach Live Full Concert".
Best of Burt Bacharach live concert.
Burt also appeared live on the Pryamid Stage at Glastonbury on June 27th 2015.
Song List:
00:06 - Look of Love
06:00 - Never Fall In Love Again
09:15 - Love's Still The Answer
13:20 - House is Not a Home
17:23 - Stronger Than Before
21:12 - Don't Make Me Over
25:10 - House is Empty Now
30:57 - Walk On By
36:37 - Close to You
41:12 - Anyone Who Had a Heart
48:08 - Any Day Now
54:20 - Who'll Speak for Love
58:38 - Waiting for Charlie to Come Home