TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS, Songs Of Johnny Mercer Plays 7/14-18 At Landor Theatre

Too Marvellous For Words, The Songs of Johnny Mercer, directed by Robert McWhir with musical Direction by Andrew Friesner.

Tuesday 14th July - Saturday 18th July 2009 at 7.30pm
(Tuesday - Saturday)
Matinee - Sun 19th July at 2.30pm)
Ticket prices; Tuesday - Sunday £12 - £10 concessions

Those who entertain, and those who love entertainment, have long known Johnny Mercer's work. Now it's your turn!

From the mid 1930s through the mid 1960s many of the songs Mercer wrote were among the most popular hits of the time. Born in Savannah, 100 years ago this year, Johnny's exposure to black music was perhaps unique among the white songwriters of his generation. The music he loved - Jazz and Blues - was booming in Harlem when he moved to New York, and Broadway was singing along to the like of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. He may have collaborated with the greats - Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Henry Mancini among them, but Mercer has remained the unknown of the American Musical Scene - the guy behind some of the greatest music of the 20th century.

Song after song trips a memory synapse...Think The Days of Wine And Roses, Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive, One For My Baby and of course Moon River... Sit back, relax and remember an incident, a friend, a lover, a beautiful day...

Box Office: 020 7737 7276

Landor Theatre
70 Landor Road
London
SW9 9PH

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