Starring one of Australia's Leading Ladies of Song
Melanie Parry

presents

'to hal & bach'
a tribute to burt bacharach & hal david

This show takes the audience down a musical anthology of one of the finest songwriting teams in pop history, Burt Bacharach & Hal David...These two remarkable composers have written some of the world’s best known and loved songs.

To paraphrase a Bacharach-David song, There’s always something there to remind us, their songs are so much more than occasions for nostalgia. They’re unclassifiable. As in their song The Look of Love, we discover, there’s a strong thematic strain in Bacharach and David’s songs. They’re restless pilgrimages toward love, pensive journeys that are more internal than simply getting home to San Jose.

In “A House Is Not a Home,” the unforgettable title song to an all but forgotten movie where pride has evaporated altogether: When I climb the stair/ And turn the key/Oh please be there. Such exquisite torture is familiar to anyone who’s ever been in love.

The Bacharach-David catalogue addresses our longing to be loved and our desire for confirmation that we’re loved still. And if “What the World Needs Now” makes some of us flash back to the mid-1960s—the Bacharach-David heyday when London was swinging, California, as germinating flower power, televisions were blooming”in living color,” and we were on our way to the moon—the theme remains relevant. Threatened by radio active “dirty” bombs and germ warfare, we may feel it’s more pertinent than ever.

In Bacharach-David’s best songs, an answer isn’t guaranteed. The pensive search for love is tantamount to the search for a state of grace. And you’ll find love any day, Alfie. Maybe he’ll find it, maybe not. Either way, these are songs even non-believers can believe in.

Songs in the show include:

Alfie, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, Don't Make Me Over, You'll Never Get to Heaven, This Guy's in Love with You, A House is Not a Home, Wishin' & Hopin', Close to You, Always Something There to Remind Me, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, What's New Pussycat, Make it Easy on Yourself, The Look of Love, I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, Anyone Who Had a Heart, What the World Needs Now, Thats What Friends are For, and many more.....