Like Someone in Love: Chet Baker

The James Dean of Jazz

Like Someone in Love is a thrilling combination of beautifully melodic music, raw dialogue and insight into the heart of jazz legend Chet Baker.

For five days only, from the March 2nd to March 6th, Galatos will come alive with the unforgettable music and intriguing story of Jazz Legend, Chet Baker. Like Someone in Love is a new musical play written and performed by David Goldthorpe and accompanied by a live three piece Jazz band.

Known as the ‘James Dean of Jazz’ for his good looks and bad boy reputation, legendary Jazz musician Chet Baker had an extraordinary talent both with his trumpet and his spare and captivating vocal style. But his life off-stage was the antithesis to his cool and subdued stage presence as he grappled with drug related jail time, failed relationships and above all his crippling life- long addiction to drugs.

Through songs and narrative, this play looks at Chet Baker’s life, his success, his weaknesses and ultimately his demise and sudden death. Did he fall from a hotel window in Amsterdam in a drug- induced haze or did he throw himself out when his talent could no longer save him? Writer and performer David Goldthorpe says “if you don’t know who Chet Baker is, you should.” Like Someone in Love is “a no-holds barred glimpse at who Chet Baker really was. It’s a chance to get closer to the real Chet Baker than you ever would by picking up a book or reading a CD cover.”

Goldthorpe has a self confessed love affair with Chet Baker’s music and style. Like Someone in Love is a love letter to Chet, which has been has been honed and polished by Goldthorpe’s collaborators’ director David Lawrence and musical director Tim Solly.

Like Someone in Love debuted to great critical acclaim at the 2007 New Zealand Fringe Festival, it has also toured to the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin. This is a must see show – catch it while you can as part of the Auckland Fringe.

“a simple yet classy show that might well mesmerise us with cool jazz if it did not also challenge us with flashes of fact that are hard to ignore.” – John Smythe Theatreveriew

“This is no impersonation of Baker, or a boring chronology of his life, but an exceptionally well researched piece, professionally put together…this is a show for theatre-goers as well as jazz-lovers, and one that deserves a repeat season.” Ewen Coleman Dominion Post

For more information see www.davidgoldthorpe.com

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