Theatre legend David Kramer has a new musical called Langarm and it looks so good

Cape Town - Langarm the latest musical created by the award-winning David Kramer, will be presented at the Fugard Theatre for the festive season from 20 November.  
 
Produced and presented by Eric Abraham for the Fugard Theatre, Langarm is a story of love and intrigue set in the story-world of Cape Town’s ballroom dance culture in the 1960s.

With the threat of the new apartheid laws hanging over their heads, people will do almost anything to survive. 

In 1965 when Dinah Levin is widowed, she invites her nephew Jeff whose fiancé has just dumped him to help her manage her late husband’s Canterbury Hotel. Here he meets the lovely, young ballroom dancer Angelina, and when she asks him to partner her in The Swaziland Ballroom Championships, he sees it as an opportunity to humiliate his ex. Aware that he’ll risk arrest by flouting the law, he throws caution to the wind and agrees. 

Jeff decides to rejuvenate the hotel by offering Langarm dances. When Eddie Jephta the leader of the Moonlight Serenaders Langarm band comes to play at The Canterbury Hotel, Dinah has to confront the secrets of her past. 

WHAT DAVID KRAMER HAS TO SAY ABOUT HIS NEW MUSICAL:

“I have been wanting for many years to do a musical inspired by the Langarm-ballroom bands from this time,” says David Kramer.  “I grew up watching my parents dancing to the music of these bands, and Langarm pays homage to the likes of the Johnny Lyners Blue Moon Jazz Band and Willie’s Starlite Orchestra.”  

THE TEAM BEHIND THE NEW MUSICAL: 

Langarm is written and directed by David Kramer. The stellar creative team includes Musical Arrangements by Resident Musical Director of the Fugard Theatre Charl-Johan Lingenfelder (West Side Story, King Kong, Funny Girl). Set Design is by Saul Radomsky (The Road to Mecca, Clybourne Park, District Six – Kanala), Costume Design is by Widaad Albertus (Significant Other, The Demon Bride, The Eulogists) and Choreography is by Grant van Ster (Aunty Merle the Musical, Calling Us Home, Figure of Eight Dance Collective).

WHEN THE PLAY IS ON AT THE FUGARD: 

Langarm will be performed at the Fugard Theatre from 20 November from Tuesdays to Saturdays at 20:00 with a matinee performance on Saturdays at 15:00.  From Sunday 16 December, there will be an additional Sunday matinee at 15:00. There will be a Monday night performance at 20:00 on New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2018 also at 20:00. 

Tickets ranging from R150 to R260 can be booked through the Fugard Theatre box office on 021 461 4554 or through the Fugard Theatre’s website. There is a 15% discount available for the Friends of The Fugard members.