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Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week: Soho Tango

“This one is about meeting someone for the very first time and chatting her up on the streets of Soho and thinking I’d closed the deal and she got in the taxi and went home.” – Damian Lewis

This is Soho Tango.

What sounds like a playful Soho story turns out to be the first chapter of a love story. This week’s Song of the Week looks at Soho Tango — the song Damian Lewis wrote about thinking he’d “closed the deal”… when he hadn’t…

And before I get to unpacking this song for you, if you missed the previous “Song of the Week” posts, you can catch up with them here.

I love the playful storytelling in Damian’s songs, and Soho Tango is no exception. Boy meets girl, boy flirts with girl, boy does not get the girl… 🙂

Two in the morning
Smokin’ on a Soho street
You told jokes, and I was laughin’
I asked if I could kiss you, please

But you said “no”
And you were gone
“I ain’t kissin’ you”
I said, “Why?”
But you had flown
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Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis in Sondheim’s Into The Woods

I was fortunate enough to interview Damian in March 2o24 after his gig in Norwich during the second leg of his Mission Creep UK Tour. We spoke mainly about music, but the conversation eventually drifted to theatre. I mentioned meeting his father, Mr. Watcyn Lewis, who had told me how much he hoped to see Damian return to theatre. With Damian now focused on music, the idea of musical theatre naturally came up. When I asked him about it, he admitted he would love to do it, though family responsibilities and the demanding nature of theatre make it a difficult prospect. Still, as we keep our fingers crossed that he might step into musical theatre one day, it feels like the perfect moment to revisit the only musical he has performed on stage so far: Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

“Hello, little girl!”

Many viewers were surprised, as they watched the BBC Broadcast of the fabulous Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala, to see Damian appear as the Wolf to Bernadette Peters’ Red Riding Hood from the musical Into the Woods – one of Sondheim’s greatest musicals. 

But the thing is that Damian is not a stranger to the role at all. In fact, he was the Wolf in Into the Woods  at the London revival of the musical back in 1998! So why don’t we travel back to that time and visit a 27 year old Damian on stage?

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Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis in Into The Woods

This lovely picture tweeted by Michelle Blair a few years ago shows a group of young actors that were together in the 1998 London revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at Donmar Warehouse.

source: @MichelleBlair Twitter

Oh, yeah! Way earlier than being the big, bad wolf Henry in Wolf Hall, Damian Lewis was the Wolf in Into the Woods.  Continue reading “Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis in Into The Woods”

Damian Lewis on Stage: Into The Woods

Our “Fan Fun” Countdown to The Goat, or Who is Sylvia continues today with the only musical Damian Lewis has done to date.

Well, I told you earlier about American Buffalo programme booklet having fun questions asked by fans and answered by Damian Lewis!

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Here is a fan question from that booklet! Claire Bartlett asks: “I saw you playing the Wolf in Into the Woods at the Donmar in the late 1990s. Any more musicals on the horizon?”

Oh, yeah! Way earlier than being the big, bad wolf Henry in Wolf Hall, Damian Lewis was the Wolf in Into the Woods. 

wolves

Damian was cast as the Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince in the 1998 London revival of Into the Woods, one of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest musicals. The revival opened at the Donmar Warehouse on 16 November 1998, and closed on 13 February 1999.

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