Comedy Cabaret MR JOHNSON PRESENTS for UKZN's Hexagon Dive

MR JOHNSON PRESENTS is the latest solo show from award-winning musician, composer, cabaret star, director and actor, Godfrey Johnson. Following its recent run at the Kalk Bay Theatre in Cape Town, KBT Productions brings this musical sitdown comedy cabaret to the Hexagon Dive.

Armed with only his piano, his voice and his wit, Johnson transports you to the cabaret houses of Europe, his local gym, the 1980s, the most hipsterish of coffee shops and the bottom of the ocean. Imagine Victor Borge meets Sid Vicious with a twist of Bach and Sinatra as Johnson entertains in his incomparable style, with songs about lovers, fanatics and noses. His dazzling range encompasses the work of Kurt Weill, Wolfgang Mozart, Tori Amos, The Sex Pistols, and maybe an Elizabethan love song or two.

Featuring a pianissimo, forte and popular audience-choice section, the line-up might also include his unique arrangements of Prince's "When Doves Cry", "Mariner's Revenge" by The Decembrists and Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat". Johnson also impresses audiences with his own original songs such as "Modern Man" and "I'm Not Gonna Sing".

Johnson has performed over twenty one-man shows nationally and internationally and has worked for many years as a musician, director, actor and composer. In 2007, he won the Fleur du Cap award for Best Performance in a Cabaret for his work in KISSED BY BREL, and in 2009 was nominated for the same award for his performance in FLIRTING WITH COWARD. He is well known for his interpretations of the music of Jacques Brel and recently released the CD, THE SHADOW OF BREL.

Johnson's illustrious career includes accompanying Pieter-Dirk Uys in numerous cabarets and also musical direction for F.A.K SONGS AND OTHER STRUGGLE ANTHEMS. Mostly recently they performed together at The Fugard Theatre and The Auto and General Theatre on The Square in FIFTY SHADES OF BAMBI. Other of his acclaimed one-man shows include, ALICE SAL REGKOM, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HARNESSED, SONGS MY LOVER FORGOT TO SING TO ME and STORIES OF CRIME AND PASSION. He has also delighted audiences in cabarets such as MINNIE & JOHNSON, THE GODFREY JOHNSON SHOWCASE and COWARD & COLE.

MR JOHNSON PRESENTS will be performed at the Hexagon Dive at UKZN on 21st and 22nd November at 7.00 for 7.30pm. Tickets cost R85 per person and tables in the venue seat ten people. Doors open at 6.45pm for the picnic-style evenings. Please bring food, but no drink as there is a cash bar. Bookings can be made by email. For further enquiries, please phne 033 260 5537.

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