The Crooner, Meet the Cast | Drayton Entertainment 2025
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Logo for The Crooner “Starring Michael Vanhevel”	
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Michael Vanhevel:
My name is Michael Vanhevel and I’m playing the crooner in The Crooner.	ON SCREEN: 
Michael Vanhevel speaks to the camera

	
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“Tell us about the show”	
Michael Vanhevel:
So the show itself is this beautiful sort of trip down memory lane, and we call it affectionately from Bing to Bublé. We start basically in the 1920s and work all our way forward, and touch on all these fantastic male and female crooners/singers throughout history.	ON SCREEN: 
Michael Vanhevel speaks to the camera

	
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“What goes into making a show like this?”	
Michael Vanhevel:
Well it sort of a collaborative piece, between myself, Alex Mustakas and Mark Payne, who arranges the show. So I’ve always been a huge fan of crooners and that genre of music. One of the hardest things was actually cutting stuff, because we only got two hours, and an entire catalogue of music to get through, and we work really hard to build something that we felt did service to this amazing catalogue of music. 	ON SCREEN: 
Michael Vanhevel speaks to the camera

	
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“What excites you about this year’s production?”	
Michael Vanhevel:
It’ll be bigger this year. There’s two things I think I’m most excited about. First of all, it’s the biggest house we’ve done, yet – at the Hamilton Family Theatre, which is going to be a larger audience, which is going to very fun. The other very exciting thing we’ve done is we’ve added a three-piece horn section this time, which we haven’t had in previous productions. We’ve now got a trumpet, a trombone, and a saxophone. That’s extremely exciting for me.
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Michael Vanhevel speaks to the camera

 	
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“Why should audiences come see The Crooner?”	
Michael Vanhevel:
Why should audiences come and see The Crooner? I think the best answer for that would be ‘nostalgia’. There is something in the show – I promise you – for everybody. It’s so special for us but also for the audiences.
Come on out and see The Crooner at the Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge!	ON SCREEN: 
Michael Vanhevel speaks to the camera
	
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Logo for The Crooner with the text 
August 6 to August 31
Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge