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LET ME BE FRANK
Award-winning vocalist Ben Jones and legendary pianist, composer and music director Ron Abel combine their considerable talent for an evening of side-splitting laughs and unbelievable music celebrating the deep catalog of Frank Sinatra.
Let Me Be Frank includes swinging Sinatra Standards and lush blue-eyed ballads from the songbooks of Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Brel and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In this hilarious followup to Ben's two “Jaw-Dropping” (BroadwayWorld) 2022 solo shows–I Think I'm in Love and I Think We Should See Other People–Ben confronts Frank truths about marriage, family and a life in the entertainment industry.
Jones and Abel have brought their magic to stages all over the world and together bring an incredible depth and originality to Sinatra's hits and deep cuts alike. It’s an incredible and joyful presentation of some of the best music of the 20th century and an evening you won’t want to miss!
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Let Me Be Frank Sizzle Reel
"Why Try to Change Me Now"
Blue Strawberry, St. Louis
"The Best Is Yet to Come"
Feinstein's at the Nikko, San Francisco
"How Insensitive / Ne Me Quitte Pas"
Parker Jazz Club, Austin
"But Beautiful"
Birdland, New York
BEN JONES
Ben Jones is a singer, comedian, storyteller and actor who has appeared in front of audiences worldwide, from the Edinburgh International Festival to the Shanghai Concert Hall. He's shared the spotlight with the likes of Rita Moreno, Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Helmuth Rilling, Michael Morgan, Val Diamond and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
His versatile voice has been featured on recordings on the Albany, Naxos and Delos labels, on A Prairie Home Companion, on the soundtracks for the best-selling video game franchises Halo and Civilization, and on commercials for Coors Light and Meow Mix.
Jones made his Carnegie hall debut in the 2021 Voices of Hope Festival. He was most recently seen as Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game in San Francisco, for which he received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Performance in a Musical.
His last two one-man shows–I Think I'm in Love and I Think We Should See Other People–played to sold-out houses across the US before being featured in BroadwayWorld's "Best of 2022."
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Tech Rider
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Set List
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