FREEWAY Closes At The Cremorne Orpheum, October 15

Tim Draxl in "Freeway - the Chet Baker Journey" has met with universal critical acclaim and audience praise during its short two week season at the El Rocco café in Kings Cross.

As a result a transfer performance and an extended season at the same venue has been planned. The show will transfer for one performance only to the Cremorne Orpheum on Tuesday 12 October and will then return to its 'home", El Rocco, on 13, 14 & 15 October.

In the '50s he was called the "James Dean of Jazz". For good reason. The American jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker looked like an angel and sang and played trumpet with a magical sway over people's souls.

Taking centre stage in "Freeway" is Tim Draxl, one of Australia's most acclaimed cabaret artists and actors who divides his time between Los Angeles and Sydney. His films include Swimming Upstream, The Shark Net, In My Sleep and Red Canyon. He has performed dramatic roles for Company B Belvoir and Griffin Theatre Company. Tim also won the prestigious MAC award in New York for his cabaret work in 2001.

Freeway has been devised as a vehicle to further showcase the talents of Tim Draxl, who has long admired Chet Baker. Draxl says ''It was his rendition of My Funny Valentine that first caught my attention and which began my adoration and intrigue 12 years ago. That haunting, melancholic tone of his voice in that song resonated with me at a time in my life when I was not only at the beginning of the unending path of discovering myself as an artist and also who I was as a person . . ."

Draxl's collaborator Bryce Hallett, arts writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, is equally drawn to the music and mystique of Chet Baker. Hallett says "He looked like a matinee idol and played trumpet by instinct and ear, much to the chagrin of well-established jazz greats at the time, including Dizzy Gillespie and MiLes Davis. Baker's hushed renditions of Time After Time, Someone to Watch Over Me and There Will Never Be Another You are all the more effective for their economy and restraint. He was a natural storyteller."

Freeway is presented in association with Lambert House Enterprises.

Venue Cremorne Orpheum

Date Tuesday 12 October at 8pm

Bookings Box Office and on line (fee applies). www.orpheum.com.au

Venue El Rocco Room, Cnr Brougham & William Streets, Kings Cross

Dates Wednesday 13 October at 8.30pm
Thursday 14 October at 8.30pm
Friday 15 October at 8.30pm

Bookings MOSHTIX - www.moshtix.com.au
telephone 1300 438 849

Dinner Reservations 0417 467115

Prices Show Only - $35.00
Student Concession - $25.00

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