Tommy Steele in The Glenn Miller Show
Tommy Steele is to feature in an extraordinary new stage production of The Glenn Miller Show. As his legion of fans already know, Tommy Steele – Britain’s first Rock and Roll Star – made his legitimate debut in 1958 starring in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, which enjoyed a sold out run at the London Coliseum. What they probably don’t know is that the inspiration for Tommy’s extraordinary career was an American band leader whose music Tommy had worshipped from the moment he first heard it in his early teens… And so, 60 years on, Tommy Steele returns to the London Coliseum to salute his idol Glenn Miller in a new musical celebration. Glenn Miller was the best selling recording artist in the world from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known big bands. In those four years he scored 23 number-one hits – more than Elvis Presley and … Read more
