News
Thursday 1st
January 1970

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! UK TOUR 2013

THE JOHN WILSON ORCHESTRA ALONG WITH SPECIAL GUEST SINGERS RETURN WITH A NEW SHOW CELEBRATING THE GOLDEN ERA OF HOLLYWOOD FEATURING SHOW STOPPING SEQUENCES FROM THE HIT MGM FILM MUSICALS including ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’, ‘High Society’, ‘The Band Wagon’, ‘Gigi’, ‘An American in Paris’, ‘Crazy Girl’,  ‘Easter Parade’,  ‘Show Boat’ and so much

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News
Monday 17th
December 2012

WATCH The John Wilson Orchestra on TV!

The Christmas schedule for The John Wilson Orchestra’s TV performances have just been announced. You can catch The John Wilson Orchestra over the holidays on the following days:  Dec 22nd @ 19:00 BBC HD: Swingin’ Christmas  Dec 26th @ 11.00 BBC2: John Wilson The  Broadway Sound   Dec 30th @ 19:00 BBC4: Hooray for Hollywood For

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News
Friday 12th
October 2012

FREE EXCLUSIVE TRACK – ‘OKLAHOMA’

To celebrate the recent release of The John Wilson Orchestra’s latest album, we are giving the fans an exclusive FREE bonus track – ‘Oklahoma’. GET YOUR FREE EXCLUSIVE TRACK HERE To get the track, simply visit the following link and sign up to The John Wilson Orchestra mailing list. FREE EXCLUSIVE TRACK – www.emiclassics.com/oklahoma

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Review
Wednesday 29th
August 2012

The John Wilson Orchestra | The Broadway Sound | 5 Star Review *****

The Broadway Sound performances at the BBC Proms take tunes that we know well, and remind us how lucky we are to have them, writes Laura Thompson. On the evidence of this Prom, it is impossible to doubt that the Broadway show tune is one of the finest inventions of the 20th century. Proof came

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News
Wednesday 29th
August 2012

TV BROADCAST OF THE JOHN WILSON ORCHESTRA AT THE BBC PROMS!

John Wilson & The John Wilson Orchestra Prom 59: The Broadway Sound  WATCH on BBC2 Saturday 1st September at 730PM For those who missed out on The John Wilson’s stunningg performance at their second prom – WATCH it on BBC2 this saturday! For more information click HERE.

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News
Tuesday 21st
August 2012

A special surprise for all the fans…

Look out for an exclusive treat on the official Facebook page at 2PM today! Visit the John Wilson Orchestr Facebook page HERE!

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Review
Sunday 15th
July 2012

My Fair Lady has Proms premiere

A packed house at the Royal Albert Hall had a “loverly” time on Saturday as classic musical My Fair Lady had its first performance at the BBC Proms. Brideshead Revisited’s Anthony Andrews played Professor Henry Higgins in the part-staged concert, whose finale was greeted with a standing ovation. The music, based on orchestrations from the

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Review
Sunday 15th
July 2012

Prom 2: My Fair Lady/John Wilson Orchestra – ****

Tonight we expected a semi-staged reading of this timeless musical. Instead we got as near as dammit to a fully staged, fully costumed, fully choreographed West End production, one that stage director Shaun Kerrison had somehow crammed into a 10ft gap in front of the orchestra. It was greeted with countless belly laughs and a

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Review
Sunday 15th
July 2012

BBC Proms: My Fair Lady, John Wilson Orchestra

“Let a woman in your life,” roars Professor Henry Higgins, “and your serenity is through. She’ll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome and then go on to the enthralling task of overhauling you.” It’s a scenario not unlike letting the winsome darling that is musical theatre loose among the club armchairs and

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Review
Monday 16th
July 2012

My Fair Lady BBC Prom Review – The Independent

After an opening fuelled by tokenism and filled to the brim with Edwardian sludge, the Proms redeemed themselves with a brilliant performance of the best-ever Broadway musical, followed by an authoritative account of a great Symbolist opera. Everything felt right as John Wilson led his orchestra in Andre Previn’s luxuriant scoring of the overture to

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