BEATLEMANIA SET TO TAKE CARNIVAL CITY BY STORM AS GLOBAL HIT TRIBUTE SHOW RETURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA NEXT MONTH

Beatlemania On Tour at Carnival City’s Mardi Gras Theatre, 3-19 May 2019, presented by Showtime Australia.

After enjoying successful tour runs in Durban and Cape Town last year, the world-famous Beatles tribute show, Beatlemania On Tour, returns to South Africa for yet another exciting stint of performances, this time at Carnival City in Gauteng this May.

Celebrating the biggest hits of the famous Fab Four from Liverpool in the United Kingdom, Beatlemania On Tour kicks off at Carnival City’s Mardi Gras Theatre on Friday 3 May. The show, which runs until Sunday 19 May, will deliver a true fan experience with rock ‘n roll classics and nostalgia live on stage every night.

Beatlemania On Tour brings a full cast of three Australian singers and one Scottish vocalist for the show’s first performing run in Boksburg – nine years after making its South African début in 2010.

The cast includes the multi-talented singers Joe Kane (as Paul McCartney), Zac Coombs (as John Lennon), Brent McMullen (as George Harrison) and Ben Harper (as Ringo).

For the very first time, Boksburg audiences will experience a rocking musical concert experience, which includes state-of-the-art updates production and lighting, as well as a huge repertoire of replica Beatles costuming have also been made – all to relive to nostalgia and magic of the Beatlemania phenomenon that swept the globe during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Fans can expect the cast to belt out some of the Fab Four’s biggest and most treasured hits from the 1960’s rock era will be performed live on stage –

The musical concert experience will see fans dancing and rocking to classic Beatles hits such as Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Please Please Me, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Day Tripper, Nowhere Man, Help, Yellow Submarine, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Hey Jude being performed throughout the two-hour musical experience,

Throughout the two-hour musical spectacular, the Beatlemania on Tour cast are set to perform all the songs in their original key and on replica Beatles instruments – with unseen attention to detail creating the sincerest Beatles sound around.

The show’s lead singer, Joe Kane is excited to perform in Boksburg for the first time and says the cast has a deep love for South African audiences.

“South African fans really love the music The Beatles and they come out and support our shows in big numbers on every tour we do in SA. We really had a blast in Cape Town last October and now we are super excited to perform in Boksburg for the very first time.”

With previous sold-out shows across the US, Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand under its belt, the production is one of the world’s finest Beatles tribute spectacular – a reputation that’s successfully upheld by Showtime Australia – a leader in the tribute show entertainment genre.

Producer, Director and CEO of The Showtime Australia Group, Johnny Van Grinsven, shares:

“This show focuses on the early years of the Beatles and their rise to stardom from the early days of Liverpool and in this musical concert, our cast will provide the best rock ‘n roll memories, live singing and performing on live instruments that will transport the audience to back in time to relive the memories as to why we all fell in love with The Fab Four. It’s a concert experience like no other and it’s a must see for all die-hard Beatles fans.”

Tickets for the Boksburg of the SA tour can be purchased via Computicket at eitherwww.computicket.com or via Checkers and Shoprite retail stores, countrywide, and are priced at R150 – R250 each.

For more details about the show, visit: beatlemaniaontour.com

Connect with Beatlemania On Tour via their social media channels:

  • Instagram and Twitter: @BeatlemaniaTour
  • Facebook: www.facebook.com/beatlemaniaontour

MORE ABOUT JOE KANE
Scottish-born Joe Kane has been portraying Paul McCartney professionally for almost ten years. At the age of 12, Joe, discovered The Beatles after accidentally watching the movie Help on television. It inspired him to get a guitar, write songs, start a band and “avoid reality completely”.
As a massive Beatles fan, Joe first joined performed as Paul McCartney with his band, Them Beatles, in 2013. Along with the band, Joe went on to tour the show in SA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East.

Joe says he has watched and listened (for pleasure as well as study) to The Beatles for over 25 years so he knows how to channel the aspects he want to get across in a show. He refers to it as “a bit like basic method acting rather than impersonation”. Joe does not consider himself a great mimic but that he can reprogram his head a bit to “not be himself’” any more.

This trip to Boksburg will be Joe’s first, but his fifth time in SA, having previously performed at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, Innibos Festival in Nelspruit previously, as well as in Durban and Cape Town in 2018.

So does he feel any pressure portraying the role of Paul McCartney? “I don’t feel any pressure performing Beatles music as its part of my heritage and culture. The only anxiety I feel is to get it right and improve aspects of the performance and that’s ongoing. It can always be better and if I can bring a bit of my knowledge to a show and suggest things here and there it’s only ever to make it truer to the source material and that’s surely the aim of any tribute show? The Beatles are on another planet. I’ve been orbiting that planet for most of my life now and I’m not coming down.”