ROCKETMAN V PIANOMAN | THE MUSIC OF ELTON & BILLY
Schedule
Fri, 28 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC+10:00Location
35-41 Wharf Street, Cairns, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4870 | Cairns, QL
𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐕 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐎𝐍 & 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘
MARCH 28,29 from 9pm March 30 from 5:30pm
3 huge nights full of hits live & free on the BAR36 stage.
The Casino has been all ‘galactic’ since the massive success of the NYE ROCKETMAN show!
‘Even the Casino promo ‘Rocketing into 2025’ supports an intergalactic theme so it seemed fitting to bring back the ROCKETMAN for the weekend finale to the promotion’ comments Bruce Stewart Entertainment Manager! ‘However, it’s time to add a little more Rock to the show, as it’s ‘Still Rock n Roll to me’ Bruce humorously plays on the massive Billy Joel hit!
Australia’s premier Elton John performer Greg Andrew and Australia’s premier Billy Joel performer Anthony Mara come face to face to deliver ROCKETMAN versus PIANOMAN.
Elton John and Billy Joel have collectively amassed global sales edging on over half a billion albums and both are titled with being in the top ten selling music artists of all time.
Since the advent of their careers, they have both had successful and enduring touring resumes, but in 1994 begun one of the world’s most successful and longest running tour partnerships in pop music history. Elton John toured extensively with Billy Joel on a series of Face-to-Face tours which toured globally in constant succession over the space of two decades, including for the first and only time in Australia in March 1998 where they performed to sold-out stadiums in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.
In this special two-hour concert production, Greg and Anthony will each perform a set of classics to the artist they each pay tribute to as well as performing several duets.
‘This is one incredible show you don’t want to miss, backed by a masterful band of musicians and packed with hit after hit including ‘Benny and The Jets’, ‘Philadelphia Freedom’, ‘Rocketman’ ‘I’m Still Standing’, ‘Just The Way You Are’, ‘My Life’, ‘Uptown Girl’, ‘It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me’, ‘Piano Man’ and many more.’ Greg quotes.
Our production crew and BAR36 are getting into the interstellar theme and everyone is welcome to get their ‘star trekkie’ on and get dressed up’ comments Bruce
GREG ANDREW
No one quite embodies the charm, the versatility, the dynamic charisma, and be able to recreate the flamboyant stage show of Sir Elton John, quite like Greg Andrew.
With blindingly accurate and faithful recreations of Elton’s greatest hits, combined with his effortless melodic skills and his reputation as a virtuosic pianist, Greg’s uncanny likeness to the Rocketman himself has transformed him in to becoming one of the single most recognised Elton John performers in the world. In 2017, Greg was hand-picked with a personal invitation as the only global Elton John tribute, to perform on the world’s biggest tribute music festival stage in the UK, TRIBFEST.
ANTHONY MARA
Adelaide-based, Anthony Mara has been touring his Billy Joel Show since 2017, that’s seen him play to capacity theatres and concert halls across the country’s metro and regional towns.
He, along with his 6-piece band of seasoned musicians, have gained a reputation as one of the greatest Billy Joel tributes in the world. Adelaide Advertiser describes Anthony’s show as “one hell of a concert”.
LIVE@THECASINO – PLAYING BAR36
ROCKETMAN V PIANOMAN
CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL & ELTON JOHN
MARCH 28,29, 30
3 huge nights full of hits live & free on the BAR36 stage.
This is a non-ticketed event
Where is it happening?
35-41 Wharf Street, Cairns, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4870
