Catch two hilarious and versatile performers in a laugh-a-minute clash of cultures in one of their holiday season shows in Plettenberg Bay, St Francis and Port Elizabeth.
The ultra-classy Ian von Memerty – of Strictly Come Dancing, SA’s Got Talent and A Handful of Keys fame – reluctantly teams up with the unashamedly philistine from De Aar, Gino Fabbri for an outrageous musical comedy, Common and Class.
The show is on at: Plett Bernyard on Thursday December 20;
The Links at St Francis Bay on Friday, December 21;
The Boardwalk Amphitheatre on Sunday, December 23. Common and Class pits drummer-comedian Fabbri’s dynamic drumming and guitar-playing against Von Memerty’s pyrotechnic fingers on the piano, resulting in a roller-coaster of musical contradictions.
This sees them move from Rock to Rocky Horror, Boeremusiek to Broadway and Country to Classical, even sharing a master class on how not to look sexy on the dance floor along the way.
Class musters all the self-control he can as he is dragged kicking and screaming through Country cowboy-land, whilst the finer expressions of classical music whistle past Common like tumbleweed trundling through a deserted town.
The confusion of Ian’s stuck-up class being forced to work with the dim-witted but moronically enthusiastic common is the backbone to a show that brings belly laugh after belly laugh.
As owner of the nationally successful production company Centrestage, Fabbri approached Von Memerty last year and the pair produced a terrific Elton John show together which toured the Eastern and Western Cape.
With Fabbri on drums and Von Memerty bringing down the house each night as the flamboyant Elton John, the pre-show backstage banter and one-upmanship which ensued paved the way for their natural collaboration.
Common and Class will be staged at the Boardwalk Amphitheatre at 7.30pm on Sunday December 23.
Tickets are R140 at Computicket, and pensioners’ discounts are available. Further information from Wendy, 082-661-6921.