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[Boydoll]

After recommendation from a friend, a few nights ago we went along to catch Bobby Crush (as Liberace) in the small, sold out downstairs space at Leicester Square Theatre.  If you love live piano and Liberace as we do, then you’ll be treated to an absorbing, fun show. What amazed me most was how he manages to play those intricate numbers without one note of written music. He even takes a random selection of songs from the audience and turns them into an instant medley. A show even more outrageous than Liberace himself – worth going just to gawp at for the frocks and rhinestones alone.

[Orchestrator]

After recommendation from a friend, a few nights ago we went along to catch Bobby Crush (as Liberace) in the small, sold out downstairs space at Leicester Square Theatre.  If you love live piano and Liberace as we do, then you’ll be treated to an absorbing, fun show. What amazed me most was how he manages to play those intricate numbers without one note of written music. He even takes a random selection of songs from the audience and turns them into an instant medley. A show even more outrageous than Liberace himself – worth going just to gawp at for the frocks and rhinestones alone.

Many musicians have quite amazing memories for music. Classical concert pianists rarely use sheet music when they play in public, the normal exceptions being for new, modernist pieces.