One Night with Joan: TWO Nights in Amsterdam - April 20 & 21, 2012

Joan Collins exclusief in DeLaMar

Na haar succes in Londen en New York komt Joan Collins in april 2012 naar Amsterdam voor een exclusief optreden in het DeLaMar Theater.  In haar internationaal gewaardeerde ‘one woman show’ One Night With Joan deelt ‘s werelds meest glamoureuze en intrigerende persoonlijkheid de verhalen en geheimen over haar gevierde carrière. Met dezelfde humor en openhartigheid die haar biografieën Past Imperfect en Second Act tot bestsellers maakten, betreedt Ms Collins het podium. Oprecht, stijlvol en elegant. 

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Joan Collins Returns to Leicester Square Theatre: March 14-18, 2012

Leicester Square Theatre is delighted that Ms. Joan Collins is back with us after her sell out performances in October 2011.

For five nights only Ms. Collins will share the stories and secrets of her celebrated career as one of the world’s most glamorous and intriguing personalities. With the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs Past Imperfect and Second Act into best-sellers Ms. Collins takes to the stage with honesty, style and grace.  The show debuted in the United Kingdom, and the Times hailed Joan as ‘riveting’ ‘endearing’ and ‘a terrific storyteller’.  Ms. Collins played New York in autumn 2010 to sell out shows and rave reviews.  Reserve your tickets today!

Experience One Night with Joan Collins! Purchase your Tickets for March 13th, 2012

JOAN COLLINS
In Her Internationally Acclaimed One Woman Show

One Night with Joan

Tuesday 13 March, 2012 7:45pm

"The Dynasty Diva Regales us with her Life Story..." --New York Times

The Civic Centre, St. Alans presents:

For one night only, Ms. Collins will share the stories and secrets of her celebrated career as one of the world’s most glamorous and intriguing personalities.  With the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs Past Imperfect and Second Act into best-sellers Ms. Collins takes to the stage with honesty, style and grace.  The show debuted in the United Kingdom, and the Times hailed Joan as ‘riveting’ ‘endearing’ and ‘a terrific storyteller’   Ms. Collins played New York in autumn 2010 to sell out shows and rave reviews.  Book your tickets now!  http://www.alban-arena.co.uk/whats-on/one-night-with-joan/

Book Your Tickets to See Joan Collins Live on Stage: October 1 & 2 at Leicester Square Theatre, London

For 2 nights only, Ms. Collins will share the stories and secrets of her celebrated career as one of the world’s most glamorous and intriguing personalities.  With the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs "Past Imperfect" and "Second Act" into best-sellers Ms. Collins takes to the stage with honesty, style and grace. 


The show debuted in the United Kingdom, and the Times hailed Joan as ‘riveting’ ‘endearing’ and ‘a terrific storyteller’  
Ms. Collins played New York in autumn 2010 to sell out shows and rave reviews:  Ms. Collins is currently preparing for the release of her latest book "The World According to Joan."    Book your tickets now by clicking here.

The Telegraph: Joan Collins puts on the glitz for her panto debut

Dick Whittington, Birmingham Hippodrome, review

If you’re going to make your panto debut at the age of 77, you might as well do so stepping out from a giant rotating glitter ball, surrounded by scantily-clad performers and accompanied by a flourish of the theme tune from the Eighties American soap that made you an international star.

Joan Collins always had style, and, as Alexis Colby in Dynasty, became such a byword for bitchiness that she acquired the status of a gay icon. Her participation in Britain’s annual outbreak of arch villainy, kitsch decor and outlandish dressing-up must be counted long overdue.

Cracking her tail like a dominatrix’s whip, cavorting on stiletto heels in a silver-lined bodice, and generally looking a million dollars – and half her age – Collins is on hand to hog the limelight as Queen Rat in Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Almost!

They pride themselves on doing things bigger, better and brasher at the Hippo, and, in a stroke of casting that verges on the over-zealous, they’ve hired self-styled “Lord of the Mince” Julian Clary to play the Spirit of the Bells.

Clary, you may recall, started out his comedy career with the Joan Collins Fan Club, but there’s nothing approaching fan-like subservience in the role as he plays it. Here you get two attention-seeking queens for the price of one.

Read the full review in The Telegraph online by clicking here.

Joan Collins: Christmas on Stage

Thanksgiving is always a huge deal in the US and this year was no different, except for the fact that the media were full of dire warnings about the inconveniences travellers would face at the airports due to the new regulations imposed by the Transportation Security Administration in the US, and the new body-scanning techniques and the euphemistically named ‘pat-down’, which is not so much a pat-down as a feel-up. Watching a news programme, I was treated to the sight of a lady whose breast implant had been poked so violently that it became dislodged and slid down to her diaphragm. Then I listened to a poor soul whose colostomy bag had sprung a leak due to a severe going-over. Rather than face the indignity of the pat-down when flying back to London last week, I decided in advance to choose the body scan, but I needn’t have worried. At JFK there were no new x-ray machines or indeed pat-downs, just a laconic TSA employee who politely waved me through the metal detector, then asked if I was Joan Collins. As I had stripped myself down to bare minimum — no shoes, hat, sweater, jewellery or sunglasses — I was surprised he recognised me. Not so polite were some of my fellow travellers — one, after removing his belt, flourished it like a lariat and nearly garrotted me. But our flight to Heathrow was excellent, landing on time in spite of doomsday prophecies about England being completely frozen over. Two days later I was complaining about my overheated apartment.
I was in Manhattan to perform my one-woman show, One Night with Joan, at Feinstein’s at the Regency Hotel for two weeks and it was a joy — not only to me, but to the world (joke!). It was fun, fabulous and, most importantly, full. Every night the audience was packed with friends, some famous, some not, some who I knew were attending and some who were a total surprise, but all of them to a fault wonderfully supportive and appreciative and delightfully enthusiastic. New York was more glorious than ever, clear blue skies, crispy cool days and exquisitely and tastefully decorated throughout all the shop windows and avenues, bringing the Christmas spirit alive. Nowhere is more glamorously festive than Manhattan in the holiday season.

Read the full article in the Spectator online by clicking here.

Joan Collins: Do I love my first panto? Oh YES I do!

When I was a little girl, Christmas was always a thrill — but the years when my father Joe booked his variety acts into pantomime shows were even more exciting.
He was a theatrical agent and during those special Christmases his acts would showcase their panto turns in the living room of our flat in Great Portland Street, central London.  I would be allowed to watch only if I was seen, but not heard; a common rule for children of my generation.

It was magical to see these performers at these early rehearsals —despite the fact they were stumbling over their lines, book in hand and often quivery voiced at the piano.  When I finally went to their pantomimes, they were transformed into fairy-tale princesses, dastardly villains, red-nosed comedians and, of course, everyone’s favourite — the dame.
When someone whom I clearly knew to be a man in my living room turned into a matronly woman on stage, I admit it confused me somewhat.

Read the full article in the Daily Mail online by clicking here.

Express and Star: First look at Joan Collins' glitzy panto dresses

When Hollywood star Joan Collins makes her pantomime debut in Birmingham wearing thigh-length boots there will be some appreciative whistles from the audience at the Hippodrome theatre.

The glamorous 77-year-old is bringing the glitz associated with Dynasty’s Alexis Colby to the West Midlands, thanks to costume designer Hugh Durrant.  Hugh has been working closely will the actress for the last few months and next Monday Joan will be at his London studio for her first fitting.

Dick Whittington begins on December 18 when Joan, starring as Queen Rat will be joined by stars Nigel Havers as King Rat, Julian Clary as The Spirit of the Bells, Keith Harris & Orville as the hopeless Rat Catchers as well as Jeffrey Holland as Dame Felicity Fitzwarren.
Hugh said: “Joan and Nigel are the only ones new to the play this year, whereas I made Julian Clary’s costume three years ago when he did the same part.

With someone like Joan Collins it is important to get their ideas first and so I went to see her at her London home in the summer.  “She had very strong ideas about how she wanted to look, and it was that whole Dynasty image — very glamorous with a bit of comedy. Joan is definitely not going to be a tawdry Queen Rat.”

Joan has three costumes for the show — the first is covered in thousands of small purple sequins and dozens of feathers.  The second is a black and green number, where the skirt can be whipped away to reveal Joan’s thigh-high boots, and the third is a flamboyant white feathered number that she will wear for her finale.

“My initial design for her first dress was red coloured but she wanted it to be purple,” says Hugh. “However, she liked the design which is good because you can often do hundreds of drawings before the person settles on the one they like.

“We went to St Tropez to measure Joan for the outfit and she will be having her first fitting on Monday. She’s very straightforward and professional to deal with — you know exactly where you are with her.”

Read the full article in Express and Star by clicking here.

Joan Collins packs in a star audience

Joan Collins continued to pack them in Tuesday night at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. In the audience wereBrooke Shields, interior designer Susan Gutfreund and financier husband John, Turner Classic Movies hostRobert Osborne and singer/actress Monique van Vooren. But the real buzz was onstage. Joan recalled that when she told Richard Burton "he would sleep with a snake," he responded, "only if it was wearing a skirt." And when Collins showed off her still remarkable flexibility by dropping into a full split, she declared, "That is what they call the British Open!"

Joan Collins at Feinstein's: Lovely Mention on Page Six of the NY Post Today:

The New York Observer: "Wine and Dynasty: Joan Collins at Feinstein's"

By Rex Reed
November 22, 2010 9:13 p.m.






Joan Collins has devoted her life to illusion, so in the third act of her career, why hold back now? Watching her New York nightclub debut at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, it was reassuring to discover she has lost none of the beauty, self-effacing humor or erotic appeal that turned her into the kind of popular, antediluvian icon that is never dated, and woe to the macho adversary or unwise female contestant who challenges her. You can accuse her of hanging on beyond her prime, but if you meet her in a dark alley, bring Mace. I might have thought otherwise if I had not seen her immediately after suffering through a Broadway matinee of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a junk pile of dreck that hideously resembles a garbage strike in downtown Newark. After the trashy pulchritude crashing its way through that train wreck, Joan Collins is as fresh, funny and full of paprika as she was when she burst upon the Cinemascope screen in the 1950s. She's ageless, and she even does an acrobatic split to prove it.


Read Rex Reed's full review in the New York Observer by clicking here.

One Night with Joan - NYDaily News Review: Collins seduces audience with her post-Dynasty Charms

Joe Dziemianowicz
Thursday, November 18th 2010, 4:00 AM

She's got the iconic red lips, man-eater attitude and padded shoulders that helped define the '80s on "Dynasty."
While Joan Collins is famous for acting up as evil Alexis on the glitzy prime-time soap, arguably her best performance came post-"Dynasty."

And you probably didn't see it.

She delivered it playing herself in a real-life court battle with Random House in the mid-'90s over her book manuscript. She came out smiling. And still is.

That's one of the familiar, but juicy, bits Collins shares in her solo memoir, "One Night With Joan," at Feinstein's through Nov. 27, a dishy affair that goes down easy.

Read the full review in the NYDaily News by clicking here.

Joan's Arc: The Tweet Life with Joan Collins

by VENESSA LAU
From WWD ISSUE 11/15/2010

In April, The Spectator reported Joan Collins’ dis of Twitter. “It is the most banal and boring pastime ever invented,” she told the British magazine. So when rumors circulated later this year that the actress had taken to tweeting, some reporters were plenty skeptical. After all, there’s more than one Collins account out there, including one peppered with a few too many obvious “dahlings.” But the inaugural tweet from “joancollinsobe” sounded authentic enough: “Well, I finally gave in, joined the 21st century! I have an iPhone, iPad so now I’ll start tweeting. This IS me...aka Alexis! Stay tuned!” Her official Web site linked to the feed. She had messages from the verified account of sister Jackie. For the record, Collins was in Saint-Tropez when she entered the Twitterati ranks.

It was Collins. The “obe” stood for Order of the British Empire, which she had received from the Queen in 1997. Soon the world discovered that, on Aug. 27, Collins watched an old episode of “Dynasty.” On Sept. 24, she felt “sorry for Demi and Ashton.” She launched an official Facebook page on Oct. 22. (There were already six others claiming to be Collins.) Two days later, it was “just a regular Sunday for me!” And on Nov. 1: “It’s over 80 degrees [in L.A.] who knows what to wear?”  Joan Collins’ life is an open book. Again.


Read the full article in WWD by clicking here.

Joan Collins: Straight Up. The legendary actress previews her new One Night With Joan, and shares her thoughts on Dynasty

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Nov 12, 2010  · New York

Joan Collins (© Fadil Berisha)

Joan Collins has been a working actress for over six decades, first gaining mainstream attention for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. She has since conquered the stage and television in a variety of projects, most notably as Alexis Carrington Colby on ABC's hit drama Dynasty. She's also no stranger to the gossip columns, for her frank opinions, many marriages (including one to the late Anthony Newley), fashion sense, and her relationship with her sister, best-selling author, Jackie Collins.

The celebrated star is now making her first foray into New York's cabaret world -- albeit without doing any singing -- with her one-woman show,One Night With Joan, which will play the Ballroom at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, November 16-27. TheaterMania recently had the pleasure of briefly chatting with Collins about the show, her career, and her life.

THEATERMANIA: You've done a version of this show in many cities, including London. What do you expect the Feinstein's audience to be like?
JOAN COLLINS: I think New York audiences are very sophisticated and expect something special when they go see a show. And they like to have something to talk about after they see it!

TM: So what will they be talking about? Tell us about the show.
JC: It's mostly a monologue, with some clips from my movies andDynasty. I talk a lot about the great people I've worked with, from Paul Newman to Bette Davis, and I do a little talking about my parents and my sister. I like to say I have a great supporting cast behind me. Still, it is quite exhausting to be alone on stage the whole time.

TM: Speaking of stage, did you enjoy doing Private Lives on Broadway?
JC: I did enjoy it; I had a wonderful time. I had done it in London and toured it in America, but Broadway is every actor's dream.

TM: What do you consider the hardest role you ever did?
JC: I am never one of those actors that has to struggle with characterizations, but I had to play this dowager gorgon in a movie with Nigel Hawthorne called The Clandestine Marriage and that was probably the hardest one for me.

TM: You just played David Spade's mom on the sitcom Rules of Engagement. How would you describe that experience?
JC: It was very different for me, because it gave me a chance to do something very comedic.

TM: What was your first reaction when you were offered the role of Alexis Carrington on Dynasty?
JC: I thought I had the potential for a steady six-month gig. It wasn't meant to be a long-term job. So I thought, it's a gig, I like the role, I'll do it. That's what actors do. I was living in Europe at the time and I had never heard of the show or seen it.

TM: And in the end -- after more than 200 episodes -- what was that experience like for you?
I think people lost track of Joan Collins, especially the media, who wrote about all these things that didn't happen, like me throwing mink coats on the floor. But all the press helped the show.

TM: Did you watch the show while it was on?
JC: Never. I only watched it for the first time this summer when I was in the South of France and England, and it was on in reruns. Actually, I found it quite fascinating to watch and I finally understood why people liked this show.

TM: Is acting still the most important thing in your life?
JC: I always want to work, but motherhood has always been much more important to me than acting. I just don't like to talk about my children; they're private people.

TM: How do you keep finding work?
JC: It is so competitive now. So many actors and actresses are out of work; and most of the roles in movies and TV are for men. There are not many jobs for women -- and especially for women over 35. So I am creating a show for myself; I'm in the middle of meetings about it. But I don't want to say anything else yet..

TM: When you're out and about, either by yourself or with your husband, Percy Gibson, are you constantly recognized?
JC: 75 percent of time I'm ignored, about 10 percent of the time, it's "Oh My God, it's Joan Collins" and the rest of the time, I think people recognize me but just don't say anything. And that's okay. I like to be ignored. 

Joan Collins at Feinstein's: One Week Away. Get Your Tickets Now!

Click here for more information about "One Night with Joan Collins" at NYC's Feinstein's at Loews Regency Ballroom, playing November 16-27.

Joan Collins Live at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency Ballroom

  

From November 16 - 27, living legend Joan Collins performs "One Night with Joan" at the Regency Ballroom at Feinstein's in New York City.  In "One Night with Joan" Ms. Collins will share the stories and secrets of her celebrated career as one of the world's most glamourous and intriguing personalities.

With the same engaging wit and frankness that turned her two memoirs "Past Imperfect" and "Second Act" into New York Times best-sellers, Ms. Collins takes to the stage with honesty, style and grace.  When the show debuted in the United Kingdom, the Times of London hailed Joan as "riveting," "endearing" and "a terrific storyteller." 

Book your tickets today and enjoy "One Night with Joan!"