One of Australia’s most adored, multi-award winning female entertainers, Rhonda Burchmore takes her beautiful new album “Pure Imagination” on tour for the first time.
With 25 years experience covering the scope of TV, musical theatre, opera, film and cabaret, “Pure Imagination” the album is the closest performance to Rhonda’s heart.
Pure Imagination will take you on a magical journey of songs and stories about love, life, loss and fantasy, which showcases Rhonda’s multi- octave vocal ability, backed by simplistic jazz influenced, touching arrangements and string orchestration.
Classics such as ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, ‘Unchained Melody’, ‘Crying’, ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, ‘If You Go Away’, ‘At Last’, ‘In My Daughters Eyes’, ‘Seventeen’, ‘Send in the Clowns’, and ‘The Way Were’ are just to name a few. Chosen for their importance and relevance at certain times of Rhonda’s career, every song has a meaning and place that will be revealed by Rhonda on stage around the country. This is definitely an up close and personal intimate tour.
We all know she’s got some of THE best legs in the business, but Pure Imagination is about something much deeper than that. It’s about a voice which sparkles, climbs, dips and ultimately has two-and-a-half decades of experience wrapped confidently around it.
The 2 hour show will feature songs from “Pure Imagination” as well as some of Rhonda’s well known performances from musicals and shows such as ‘Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend’, ‘Fever’, ‘Sway’ and ‘To Sir With Love’ and some fabulous tap dancing thrown in, all backed by the amazing Ray Alldridge Orchestra
“from Bette Midler to Burt Bacharach, from Anthony Newley to the inimitable Peggy Lee, Burchmore segued from soul to swing to croon and sensual jazz, backed by the stylish and impeccable accompaniment of the Ray Alldridge Orchestra. Burchmore knew how to vamp and weave and spell, and she fascinated the audience with anecdotes of her childhood, meeting her idol Midler and singing a Bacharach song to the man himself. Whether raising goosebumps with ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ or belting out her Midler version of ‘I’m A Woman’, the effervescent, electrifying Burchmore raised the bar with Pure Imagination and brought world-class entertainment to Canberra’s own world-class Teatro Vivaldi. Diamonds maybe a girl’s best friend, but Pure Imagination is pure gold under Burchmore’s artful alchemy, it doesn’t get better than this” – Peter Wilkins, Canberra Times April 08.
www.rhondaburchmore.com
FRI 8TH AUG CANBERRA THEATRE, www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au
$55 inc B/F, $50 inc B/F for students, seniors, pensioners discount
