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Preview by Paul Nelson
HERE'S
one for the really keen collector, not the listener to Sherrin's Loose
Ends.
Shelly Goldstein - who is a cross between Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler
- is making her UK cabaret debut.
Shelly, who is a terrif talker!, is quite a mover and shaker in Los Angeles
but lives for half of the year in Clapham Common. She has just arrived in
London from LA.
Songs for Lovers and Those They Have Dumped will be at Larry's Room
at Pizza on the Park on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14 & 15. Do
not despair that the appearances are so short in number; there are two sets
per evening at 9pm and 10.30pm.
Direct from triumphant shows in Hollywood, Manhattan and San Francisco, this
is Shelly Goldstein's London debut. The show is her own inimitable mix of
music, comedy, romance and war stories from the Hollywood trenches.
Less than a year ago, Shelly returned to performing after spending 15 years
as one of Hollywood's busiest television writer-producers, working with such
diverse artists as Cybill Shepherd, Tracey Ullman and Yoko Ono!
After her very first appearance at Los Angeles' legendary Gardenia, she was
asked to be the opening act for Michael Feinstein at the Gala 2002 Aid For
Aids benefit in Hollywood.
Since then, she has been one of the busiest performers on the US cabaret scene.
She is currently co-writing the book for a major Broadway musical built around
the songbook of Motown legend, Smokey Robinson.
Musically, Shelly Goldstein explores a diverse blend of Broadway and West
End standards as well as the rock-pop hits of Carole King, Laura Nyro, Dusty
Springfield, Paul Simon, Lennon-McCartney, Randy Newman, Lesley Gore, Bill
Withers and Phil Spector.
If that impressive list does little to entrance you then I can tell you she
also sings her own comic songs. Songs for Lovers and Those They Have Dumped
recounts her own journey through the minefield of modern love, as well
as her Hollywood television career, which is mid-bogglingly extensive.
Drama, documentary, game show and sit-com, you name it. Her screenplay, the
political satire The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Fable of Baseball has
been optioned by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, she co-authored
(with Brendan Foley) the Irish action drama The Rising, which won the
2000 Australian Screenwriting Competition, and she is comedy consultant for
Columbia-TriStar International Television and has worked on series in London,
Belgium, Mexico, Romania and Taiwan.
While a senior at Northwestern, Shelly was discovered by producer Garry Marshall
(Pretty Woman, Beaches) who had seen her long-running play, Coming
Attractions. He offered her a job writing sitcom. She has since written
for many.
Shelly is a published fiction writer, playwright, singer-songwriter, and former
lead singer of the comedic girl group 'Shelly and the Sea Shells'. In addition,
she was the singing voce for a plethora of drag queens in the Showtime film
The Wharf Rat, starring Lou Diamond Philips and Rita Moreno.
Songs for Lovers and Those They Have Dumped starring Shelly Goldstein,
Musical Director Nigel Lilley. Presented in Larry's Room, Pizza on the Park,
11 Knightsbridge, London SW1, January 14 & 15. Reservations: 020 7235
5273
