Delighted to announce that Joan will light up the Las Vegas Strip this coming Thanksgiving Weekend, with her worldwide smash hit show ' A Night With Joan Collins'.. For three exclusive performances in the Showroom at The South Point Hotel & Casino
Daniel Nardicio presents…Joan Collins: One Night With Joan- Direct from London!
November 5th at BB Kings
“in a word: FAAAAABULOUS!” New York Times
“a terrific storyteller…not a dull moment. Joan is such entertaining company!” Sunday Times of London
Tuesday November 5th 8pm (doors 6pm)
BB Kings 237 W 42 St New York
Joan Collins - One Night With Joan is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to spend an intimate evening in the company of a true English Hollywood legend. Joan Collins will take to the stage with honesty, style and grace and with the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs, Past Imperfect and Second Act, into international best-sellers. Among the many confidences, she tells us the ups and downs of her career and screens rare and often hilarious film footage from her life. It's a chance to hear first hand about her screen test for Cleopatra and why she lost the role to Elizabeth Taylor, her on-set encounters with the formidable Bette Davis and many others including Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Paul Newman and Richard Burton; and, of course, her relationships! Another highlight of the evening are outtakes and her legendary bitch-fights with Linda Evans in Dynasty. The evening includes a question and answer session with the chance to ask Joan anything you've always wanted to know about her amazing life.
Joan Collins has appeared in more than 118 feature films and TV shows, including creating the role of Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, one of the most highly rated television dramas of all time. Her novels and memoirs have sold over 50 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages. She is a regular diarist for The Spectator and a contributor to The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times and Harper's Bazaar. On stage, Joan Collins has performed on Broadway, the West End, and in national tours in the UK and North America. She is recognised world-wide as a fashion maven of timeless beauty, and is a brand ambassador and pokeswoman for top cosmetic, health and beauty companies. On the humanitarian front, Joan Collins is devoted to the well-being of women, children and families and regularly lends her support and celebrity to causes that include finding a cure for breast cancer and empowering children with learning disabilities. She is also a commited patron of Shooting Star/Chase Hospice for Children. She is married to Theatrical Manager Percy Gibson, and they live between heir homes in Los Angeles, London, New York and the South of France. In 1997 she received an OBE for her lifetime contribution to the arts and her continuing charity work. Official Site Facebook Pinterest Twitter
Daniel Nardicio Presents
JOAN COLLINS
"One Night With Joan"
November 5, 2013
Showtime @ 8:00PM
Doors Open @ 6:00PM
Tickets $55.00 in advance, $60.00 day of show
Tickets go on Sale August 1st 2013
$55 General Admission, $60 Day of Show
$90 VIP Admission
*Reserved premium seating
General Admission - Fully Seated
* First Come, First Seated
* Full Dinner Menu Available
* $10 Minimum Per Person, For All Tables
JOAN COLLINS ON THE CATFIGHTS & CAMPERY ON 'DYNASTY'!!
As her one-woman show hits London, the legendary diva talks us through her favourite scraps from the '80s series
As her one-woman show, 'One Night With Joan' hits London, ‘Dynasty’ legend Joan Collins gives Alex Hopkins her top five Alexis Colby scraps from the ’80s show.
1. Alexis’s studio
‘My all time favourite was the first catfight I had with Krystle, played by Linda Evans. I’m in my studio and Krystle comes in and says something typically venomous. We’re soon hitting each other with pillows and the feathers are flying everywhere.’
2. Alexis’s atelier
‘Alexis has decided to become a dress designer and I’m in my atelier, in a yellow blouse and black trousers, when Krystle bursts in and starts fighting with me. We’re rolling all over the floor, feather boas everywhere, and she really goes at me, grabbing my hair and bashing my head against the floor.’
3. Queen Elizabeth I
‘I’m dressed in an utterly divine, pearl-encrusted Elizabeth I gown, which cost thousands of dollars, and Krystle and I are having a tug of war. We did this over several takes and eventually Krystle pulls the rope hard, and wins, with me falling face first into the mud. That gorgeous dress was utterly ruined.’
4. The lily pond
‘If I’d known that this was going to be so popular I’d have worn a better dress. As it was I had on a terrible polyester thing – most unflattering. Krystle was supposed to hit me, but before she connected the director was supposed to call “cut” and my double was supposed to go in. Unfortunately, the director didn’t call “cut”, so I got the full brunt of Linda Evans’s right hook on my chin. Now, Linda’s a big girl and she knocked me out. I ended up in the emergency ward. Oh, the perils of filmmaking!’
5. The mud hill
This was terribly difficult to do as we didn’t use doubles and I was in a very short skirt and consequently spent most of the time trying to hide my modesty. Krystle and I were rolling down a muddy hill, fighting, and when we finally got to the bottom we had to sit in this vile fuller’s earth. They then smeared chocolate on our faces and suddenly all these ants and bugs in the area descended upon us. We needed an entire team of people with fly swatters and bellows to get rid of them.’
Outdoors it may be grey and drizzly; the theatre may be in need of a scrub up; but onstage it’s pure starlight, as Joan Collins enters in shimmering skintight sequins and a head of hair with more volume than a My Bloody Valentine gig.
Working on GT I’ve done some pretty gay things in my time but it’s just possible that One Night With Joan may have topped the bill.
The one-woman show – celebrating the life and career of Joan Collins – is played for laughs with fantastic comedic timing, while still managing to be an impressive feat in showing off just how much she’s done other than Dynasty (pronounce it how you will, as you’ll discover in the show).
Joan herself plays up the misconception that all she’s ever portrayed is super-soap bitch Alexis by halting the proceedings as the show gets underway with the all-so-familiar theme tune. And so begins two hours of tales from Hollywood, of papier-mache ants and getting Cinzano poured down her twice a year.
Hanging. Off. Every. Word.
Who else has stories of encounters with Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe? Of having worked with Bette Davis? And who else would exasperatedly stop the show with a sigh - while fanning herself - to shout at press photographers snapping away during the first ten minutes.
“Click, click, click! Are you ever going to stop?” she snaps, rolling her eyes and realising the audience are completely on her side. Amazing.
Her life story is accompanied by clips from her many films and TV appearances, as well as a series of incredible photographs which look set to see print later this year.
She still looks utterly fantastic of course (goodness knows how she does it), she keeps the audience in the palm of her hand and ultimately leaves them desperate for more. I could’ve listened to her all night - if the end had been the interval I’d have happily sat for another two hours.
5/5
Get tickets for her London shows here and details of her UK tour here.
In advance of her opening night tonight in London of 'One Night With Joan', Joan appeared on today's Loose Women.. Here is an exclusive photo of Joan on the Loose Lounge sofa with McFly's Harry Judd...
Tune into BBC1 tv at 6.30pm to catch Joan on tomorrow's edition of BBC London News where she disusses her show 'One Night With Joan' which opens at The Leicester Square Theatre this coming Friday 12th with Brenda Emmanus...
Joan was the special guest on tonight's edition of BBC1's 'The One Show'.. Here is Joan with presenters Alex Jones & Jake Humphrey. If you missed the show you can catch up here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tcw7
As a teenager, I used to love lying in bed until
noon. These days I’m awake between 7 and 8, and before I get up, I stretch like
a cat. I make sure everything is moving.
I then put on my Terrycloth
dressing gown and make a very strong instant coffee. My diet isn’t faddish, but
I look after myself. I eat boring stuff. If you look in my cupboards, you’ll
find things like tins of tuna and loaves of white bread. I love a piece of white
toast in the morning with Smucker’s raspberry jam.
My husband, Percy, is
usually up by the time I finish breakfast, so we go through emails and make
calls while listening to the Today programme. Although we’re in New York right
now — we’ve also got homes in London, LA and the south of France — I still like
to know what’s happening in England.
*** You can read the full interview in
today's Sunday Times Magazine!***
Joan Collins on beauty tips, staying fit and looking good. The glamorous film and TV star spoke about her beauty tips, staying looking so young, and her show coming to the Wycombe Swan next month.
Joan Collins has been on the stage since she was nine, although she has never been to the Swan Theatre before.
She is bringing her own tour of One Night With Joan to High Wycombe in April, which will see Joan tell stories from her long career from Dynasty to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Footballer's Wives, with lots of clips from the various shows.
And she said she simply loves doing it: "Audiences are all different. Sometimes they are all laughing at everything you say.
"Sometimes they sit there and rarely move a muscle. "That is one of the exciting things about live theatre is that you never know."
But one thing you are always sure to know about Joan is she will look immaculate, without a hair out of place and picture perfect make-up.
But Joan does not have a stylist or a hairdresser or a make up artist- she does it all herself.
And she said the most important thing is to be comfortable in what you are wearing. She designed the dress she wore to the Oscars in February.
She said: "Most of my evening dresses and cocktail dresses I design myself. I am a strange shape. I am much bigger on the top than I am below. I have quite small hips but broad shoulders and back- like an upside down pear.
"So I can't buy off-the-peg dresses."
But how does she manage to stay looking so trim and healthy?
She said: "I am very fit. I have exercised all my life. Somebody asked me once, 'What would you bring back to England that you had when you were a child?
"Playing fields and playgrounds. I was always out playing and exercising. "We had physical education. I have exercised all my life but not to the extent where I now have broken hips and broken knees. "I keep moving all the time. I stretch- it is very important to stretch.
"I stretch every part of my body for about five minutes, even if I don't exercise."
Joan said her mother encouraged herself and her siblings to make the best of themselves and look after their skin, and she has been using moisturiser on her face since she was 14.
She said: "What I find is people do seem to spend so much time cruising the net on their computer. They sort of don't give themselves enough time for personal maintenance.
"Yeah it takes time but so does cleaning your teeth or washing your hair."
When she starred in Dynasty she said she had all her dresses made and clothes were run up for her overnight. Joan starred as Alexis Carrington in the soap opera from 1981 to 89. And she has had lasting success on screen.
She said: "In the show I say something like isn't it amazing how lucky hard working people are? I was on stage first when I was nine-years-old."
"My parents, particularly my father, gave me some good rules. Don't ever expect anyone to do it for you. Do it yourself.
"I never got anything from my parents- money or praise. Both my sister and my brother- we did it ourselves. We worked hard and realised life doesn't owe you anything.
"You have to put what you want out of life into it."
Behind the scenes of her show is her husband, Percy Gibson, who she married in 2002.
She said: "You have to really look after each other. You have got to get to know each other before you start falling in love so you really know each other. "Too many people fall in love instantly."
And I couldn't finish the interview without asking about the Star Trek episode she starred in, The City On The Edge of Forever, which BFP editor Steve Cohen raves about.
She said: "Yes it is amazing. When I did it, it was just another gig as I was doing a lot of TV at the time. So many people think that is the best Star Trek ever."
One Night With Joan is at the Wycombe Swan on April 7 at 7.45pm. Tickets are £30 to £32.50 from 01494 512000 or go to www.wycombeswan.co.uk
Joan features in an exclusive 6 page interview and sensational new photo's in the latest issue of Gay Times which is on newstands now! A preview of the article can be seen below!!
Delighted to announce that Joan will light up the Las Vegas Strip this coming Thanksgiving Weekend, with her worldwide smash hit show ' A Night With Joan Collins'.. For three exclusive performances in the Showroom at The South Point Hotel & Casino 
Joan Collins - One Night With Joan is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to spend an intimate evening in the company of a true English Hollywood legend. Joan Collins will take to the stage with honesty, style and grace and with the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs, Past Imperfect and Second Act, into international best-sellers. Among the many confidences, she tells us the ups and downs of her career and screens rare and often hilarious film footage from her life. It's a chance to hear first hand about her screen test for Cleopatra and why she lost the role to Elizabeth Taylor, her on-set encounters with the formidable Bette Davis and many others including Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Paul Newman and Richard Burton; and, of course, her relationships! Another highlight of the evening are outtakes and her legendary bitch-fights with Linda Evans in Dynasty. The evening includes a question and answer session with the chance to ask Joan anything you've always wanted to know about her amazing life. 
Joan dropped into the BBC London studios to record an interview on The Robert Elms Show.. Here is Joan with broadcaster Sam Delaney..
Joan appeared on todays edition of 'This Morning' on ITV1 with Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.. If you missed it you can catch it here .
Tune into BBC1 tv at 6.30pm to catch Joan on tomorrow's edition of BBC London News where she disusses her show 'One Night With Joan' which opens at The Leicester Square Theatre this coming Friday 12th with Brenda Emmanus...
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Joan was the special guest on tonight's edition of BBC1's 'The One Show'.. Here is Joan with presenters Alex Jones & Jake Humphrey.
Joan's tour of 'One Night Of Joan' get's a mention in the latest issue of Attitude magazine....
Joan Collins on beauty tips, staying fit and looking good. The glamorous film and TV star spoke about her beauty tips, staying looking so young, and her show coming to the Wycombe Swan next month.
