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Artful dodger musical12/24/2023 ![]() We are not some obscure mid-’60s group that came and went. We packed them in and the place went bonkers. Micky and I were in Vegas over Labor Day weekend. The tour was cut short, due to internal group issues and business conflicts, according to individual statements from the band members.īut in 1995, Jones spoke highly of his old bandmates. ![]() The band’s most recent tour, in 2011 for their 45th anniversary, saw Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork travel across the North America and the U.K. I am adding, just as David Cassidy and Donny Osmond and a lot of the sort of teen heartthrobs, a few more bottoms on the seats.’Īs a band, the Monkees reunited on stage from time to time, in an attempt to capture some of their old chemistry. The project aims pop, r&b and hip hop for a. The single launched David's career, landing at 2 in the UK. During this period the then unknown Craig David featured on the track 'Re-Rewind'. They achieved notoriety in the 1990s and early 2000s, releasing seven consecutive singles all of which charted in the United Kingdom Top 20. I am not revolutionizing theater by appearing in it. STARCHILD & THE NEW ROMANTIC is a musical project lead by singer/multi instrumentalist and writer, Bryndon Cook. Artful Dodger were originally a UK garage duo featuring songwriters and producers Mark Hill and Pete Devereux. ‘I think people have an image of the theater of being something that you go to wearing a bow tie and tuxedo,’ Jones said. In 1995, Jones talked to the Times’ Susan King about his turn as the slick deejay Vince Fontaine in a traveling production of ‘Grease.’ Though many of his fellow Monkees were theater stars as well - Micky Dolenz, for instance, appeared on the London stage in ‘Hairpsray’ in 2010 - Jones thought he and his bandmates might still be pulling in audiences who hadn’t ventured to the theater before. In 1989, he was cast as Fagin, the elder crime master, in a Miami Beach-area production of ‘Oliver!’ According to his website, he also starred in productions of ‘The Boyfriend,’ Harry Nilsson’s ‘The Point,’ and appeared as Jesus in ‘Godspell,’ which played in the West End. The theater, particularly the classic based on Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist,’ continued to be good to Jones throughout his career. He might’ve only been 5 feet 3 but that didn’t bother millions of American girls, who, much like the eldest Brady daughter, pined for the show’s version of Paul McCartney, replete with a British accent. ![]() Jones’ success as the rogue pickpocket also brought him to the attention of Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Television, which created the Monkees, clearly designed after the Fab Four. In the book ‘Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan’s America’ Jones recalls the frenzy: “I watched the Beatles from the side of the stage, I saw the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that.” It was an auspicious encounter that would set Jones’ agenda for the rest of his life. ![]()
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