The Age of Stephen - Fringe World Review
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 - Sat 16 Feb 2019
It is entirely possible that musician and comic Stephen Valeri may just be John (Farnsey) Farnham's biggest fan.
Certainly he knows a hell of a lot about his idol, including where his father worked and a host on minor details, but more of that later.
The Fringe World show,
Age of Stephen, takes place in the intimate, subterranean, Lion's Lair situated in the basement of His Majesty's Theatre. One gets there via the stage door entrance and going down (and down) several flights of stairs (Disabled access? Not hardly) past lots of memorabilia of stars and shows long gone to the intimate performance space.
The show opens with Stephen bursting onto the stage belting out one of Farnham's best wearing a blond, slightly unconvincing, mullet. Backed by a guitarist and a keyboardist Stephen has a really nice voice and a most professional style and a wry comic timing.
Stephen soon admits he's not really John Farnham, the wig falling off was a clue, but maintains that he and John have a spiritual connection and takes us through a list of similarities, some fairly tenuous – both Stephen's and John's father worked for Ford – admittedly on different continents and in different departments – but still …
The facts are interspersed with some of John's finest songs from
Sadie, the Cleaning Lady right up to
The Voice. There was quite a lot of audience participation from the almost capacity crowd and a thoroughly good time was had by all.
Very Highly Recommended.
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