Sixties British pop crooner Engelbert Humperdinck
will take the stage at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
at Brooklyn College Feb. 28 at 8 pm.
Humperdinck, 67, will perform many of the romantic songs that
have made him a (difficult-to-pronounce) household name over
the last 30-something years, including "After the Lovin’,"
"Release Me" and "Quando Quando Quando."
Born Arnold George Dorsey, Humperdinck got his start in showbiz
doing impersonations of actor Jerry Lewis.
His comic aspirations asserted themselves again when he changed
his stagename from Gerry Dorsey to Engelbert Humperdinck, the
name of the Austrian composer who wrote "Hansel and Gretel."
(At press time it could not be confirmed if The Hump’s set list
will also include the hilarious "Lesbian Seagull,"
the song he recorded for the 1996 film "Beavis and Butt-head
Do America.")
Humperdinck will perform at the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn
College, 2900 Campus Road at Hillel Place (one block from the
junction of Nostrand and Flatbush Avenues) in Midwood. Tickets
are $75, $65, $60 and $55. For more information, call (718) 951-4500.
