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Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 – Gold Standards, Or Happily On The Band Wagon

Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 – Gold Standards, Or Happily On The Band Wagon

May 26, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Swingin’ Las Vegas 2025 / Conducted by Adam Howard / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways   It’s often the case that top-class music, theatre and/or entertainment involves technical excellence, committed performers, well-written or curated...
Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas – Brassy Brilliance, Or Anything But Standard(s)

Music Review: Swingin’ Las Vegas – Brassy Brilliance, Or Anything But Standard(s)

Jul 15, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Swingin’ Las Vegas / Conducted by Adam Howard / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   The title of this musical extravaganza (an accurate term, for once) is slightly misleading. While a good chunk of the running order...
Music Interview: Corlea Botha – What Happens In Vegas Is Spectacular, Or Learning To Be Lifted

Music Interview: Corlea Botha – What Happens In Vegas Is Spectacular, Or Learning To Be Lifted

Jul 3, 2024 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Swingin’ Las Vegas pays homage to the music of the stars over the past few decades who have made Vegas… Vegas! It features the music of Elvis, Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack, Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones as well as contemporary...
Music Review: Swingle Bells – Brass With Bells On, Or Santas Of Swing

Music Review: Swingle Bells – Brass With Bells On, Or Santas Of Swing

Dec 16, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Swingle Bells / Directed by Daniel Geddes / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   Swing music speaks to the way the songs performed in that style feel – it makes you want to dance. It also refers to the way the music is...

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Bruce Dennill is a BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Writing Awards Silvear Award winner (Opinion and Features), a South African Music Awards judge and a recording artist. His first play, the pocket musical Actress,for which he wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the script, was the recipient of a Broadway World South Africa Award for Best New Play Or Musical and a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical (Talia Kodesh).
Find his music on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and wherever else you stream and download music.