The Everyman Sunday Songbook: The Nat King Cole Story
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About this event
Join our Sunday Songbook team as they bring you Unforgettable, the thrilling story of Nat “King” Cole’s fight against bigotry, and brings you a score and more of his best-loved singalong songs.
A very special guest for Nat King Cole: Unforgettable will be Conor O’Shea (a.k.a The Loungeman). Conor O’Shea is a perfect choice to join The Everyman Sunday Songbook team, he even sounds like Nat.
From his birth in a black ghetto in Montgomery, Alabama, Nat Cole had to fight racial prejudice. Although he was thrilling audiences all across the United States with his brilliant piano playing and his smooth, satin voice, he had to use the “coloureds only” facilities and frequently could not stay in the hotels in which he was performing.
But that golden voice made him a star! A series of hit records, Rambling Rose, Unforgettable, Mona Lisa, Too Young and Nature Boy brought his fame all around the world and he became a beacon of hope for dozens of other black artistes. He was also the first black performer to host his own show on coast-to-coast television.
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STARRING LINDA KENNY, DAMIAN SMITH, OUR SUNDAY SONGBOOK BAND, MD ALAN CARNEY, MC ALF McCARTHY AND SPECIAL GUESTS CONOR O’SHEA (a.k.a The Loungeman)
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CATHAL MACCABE
Location
15 MacCurtain Street
Venue details
The Everyman is a non-profit company that produces and presents the best in Irish and international performance for Cork and Irish audiences. Our mission is to be indispensable to all of the communities we serve: audiences, artists (local, national, international), employees and suppliers, while remaining rooted in, and inextricably linked to, Cork.
Our beautiful theatre is 650-seat listed building and a jewel of late Victorian architecture, celebrating its 120th birthday in 2017. The building is steeped in history and the auditorium is a favourite with audiences and performers alike for its intimacy and atmosphere.
