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“This show is very comical, and explores those late night thoughts that can keep any of us awake,” says singer/producer Harold Sanditen of his musical show Thoughts ‘Round Midnight, which he’s performed in London, New York, and Chicago. The former San Diegan will stage his theatrical cabaret here for the first time on June 18 at Tango del Rey.
“The seed for the show began to germinate in 2007, when I attended my first cabaret boot camp in Tuscany. I learned that one can sing, as well as tell a story. It’s acting to music. Each song is an individual monologue, with some personal relevance.” Mixing jazz, Latin, pop, ballads, and Broadway theater, Thoughts ‘Round Midnight includes tracks from Sanditen’s 2010 album Taking Flight, as well as songs by Lennon and McCartney, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Bob Dylan, Jay Leonhart, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Sondheim, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
While living in San Diego, the former investment banker used to work for the NCR Corporation in Rancho Bernardo. “I was first an Inventory Control Specialist, and then the Manufacturing Systems Control Manager. At that time, NCR was building very large mainframe computers.”
Deciding on a career change, he became a theater producer and moved to the U.K., where he’s currently Vice Chairman of the Board of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). “I loved my time in San Diego. I had my first real job, bought my first house, and basically started my adult life there. I developed a love for theater there as well.”
Sanditen says his next career transition, from producer to cabaret crooner, was inspired by working with “difficult” performers. “I think that all began when I was producing one particularly difficult diva. Then, some more difficult divas came along, and I decided that life really is too short to put up with that kinda shit. I chose to follow my first love, singing.”
As a performer, he says he now understands the diva behavior that used to vex him, and that he’s become a bit of a diva (or rather “divo”) himself. “Whether or not anyone realizes this, it’s really hard work being a diva.”
“In the end, it’s the diva you know, whether that diva wears Prada or nada!”
“This show is very comical, and explores those late night thoughts that can keep any of us awake,” says singer/producer Harold Sanditen of his musical show Thoughts ‘Round Midnight, which he’s performed in London, New York, and Chicago. The former San Diegan will stage his theatrical cabaret here for the first time on June 18 at Tango del Rey.
“The seed for the show began to germinate in 2007, when I attended my first cabaret boot camp in Tuscany. I learned that one can sing, as well as tell a story. It’s acting to music. Each song is an individual monologue, with some personal relevance.” Mixing jazz, Latin, pop, ballads, and Broadway theater, Thoughts ‘Round Midnight includes tracks from Sanditen’s 2010 album Taking Flight, as well as songs by Lennon and McCartney, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Bob Dylan, Jay Leonhart, Dorothy Fields, Stephen Sondheim, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
While living in San Diego, the former investment banker used to work for the NCR Corporation in Rancho Bernardo. “I was first an Inventory Control Specialist, and then the Manufacturing Systems Control Manager. At that time, NCR was building very large mainframe computers.”
Deciding on a career change, he became a theater producer and moved to the U.K., where he’s currently Vice Chairman of the Board of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). “I loved my time in San Diego. I had my first real job, bought my first house, and basically started my adult life there. I developed a love for theater there as well.”
Sanditen says his next career transition, from producer to cabaret crooner, was inspired by working with “difficult” performers. “I think that all began when I was producing one particularly difficult diva. Then, some more difficult divas came along, and I decided that life really is too short to put up with that kinda shit. I chose to follow my first love, singing.”
As a performer, he says he now understands the diva behavior that used to vex him, and that he’s become a bit of a diva (or rather “divo”) himself. “Whether or not anyone realizes this, it’s really hard work being a diva.”
“In the end, it’s the diva you know, whether that diva wears Prada or nada!”