11:27am Thursday 11th May 2006
By Mark Edwards
THE golden age of the Hollywood musical is recreated by The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra at the Radlett Centre.
Hollywood Party features classics such as Cheek To Cheek, Puttin' On The Ritz and 42nd Street and plenty of others.
The mix of jazz, big band and dance band music celebrates a lost world where top hats, white ties and tails were the dress code, and love was forever in the air.
The orchestra has a longstanding renown, playing for dancing for the Henley Festival, Earl Spencer's 30th Birthday Party (where Princess Diana asked the orchestra to play In The Mood twice), special BAFTA awards parties for Julie Andrews and Sean Connery, the first ever Proms In the Park and a residency at London's The Ritz hotel.
Michael Law achieved a lifelong ambition when the twelve-piece version of orchestra began a series of Saturday night dinner dances at the cradle of British Dance Band music, the Savoy Hotel (Stompin' At The Savoy) in October 1997, which continued until December 2003.
The orchestra have been seen on television for Wogan, Daytime Live, Pebble Mill, Play It Again and Lorraine Live.
The show comes to Radlett on Sunday, May 14, at 7.30pm.
To book tickets, priced from £13 to £14, telephone the venue box office on 01923 859291.
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