Harold Sanditen Kicks Off World Tour of FLYIN' HIGH Today

Harold Sanditen, the versatile performer and host of the über-popular Open Mic Night at London's Crazy Coqs, is taking his newest show, Flyin' High, on, as he puts it, "a California tour that now includes London, New York, Paris and Montenegro."

Flyin' High is a comic look at travel, with Sanditen, an intrepid traveller who has visited every continent except Antarctica, as your tour guide. The audience will travel from Albuquerque to the Zambezi, via a repertoire ranging from Bacharach and the Beatles, through Jobim and Weill.

Sanditen will be joined on stage by guest vocalists including Dame Janet Suzman in her professional singing debut (Crazy Coqs in London today, March 31 and April 1), Linda Purl and Shelly Goldstein (April 14 - Rockwell Table and Stage, Los Angeles) and three other locations in California: San Diego, Palm Springs, and San Francisco). The tour then makes stops at New York's Metropolitan Room, Paris and Montenegro. Sanditen will be travelling with UK musicians, Michael Roulston on piano and Jonty Fisher on bass. The show is directed by New Yorker, Barry Kleinbort. Flyin' High, Sanditen's sixth cabaret show, premiered in London in 2014, and played New York's Metropolitan Room the same year.

For complete schedule information, visit: haroldsanditen.com and read down.

An Oklahoma native, Sanditen moved to London in 1987 where he became a theater producer working with actors ranging from Academy Award winners to complete up-and-comers. After 20 years of producing theater, he burst onto the cabaret and jazz scene in 2008 after deciding to follow his life-long dream to sing. Since then he has created and performed six shows in as many years, which have played to packed houses from London to LA. Shows include: The Secret of Life (2008), Love Exposed (2009), Thoughts 'Round Midnight (2010), Shades of Blue (2012), Full Circle (2013) and Flyin' High (2014). Sanditen has recorded two CDs: Taking Flight (2010) and Shades of Blue-Live at The Pheasantry (2013). Flyin' High will be recorded as a "live at the Crazy Coqs" CD - the first to be recorded in the venue for commercial release. It will be released by LML Music in October.

In 2013 Harold made his professional theatrical debut in London's West End in Café Society Swing, playing the role of the late, real-life impresario, Barney Josephson. He later packed out the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in the first concert in his hometown of Tulsa. In 2014 he made is Ronnie Scott's debut in the upstairs venue. Harold also participated in the Guinness World Record-breaking event - the world's longest variety show (60 hours of non-stop entertainment) at New York's Metropolitan Room on January 3, 2015.

Flyin' High Tour Dates:

The Crazy Coqs, London, 31 March, 1 & 2 April 2015 (with Dame Janet Suzman March 31 and April 1)

Martini's Above Fourth, San Diego, on 9 April, 2015

Arthur Newman Theater at the Joslyn Center, Palm Desert, 12 April, 2015

Rockwell: Table + Stage, Los Angeles, on 14 April, 2015 (with Linda Purl and Shelly Goldstein)

Society Cabaret, San Francisco, on 18 April, 2015

Metropolitan Room, New York, on 23 April 2015

Club RaYé, Paris, on 5 & 6 June

Montenegro, July 2015 tbc

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