Richard Shelton brings award-winning show Sinatra: RAW to New Theatre Royal, Lincoln

Award-winning actor and singer Richard Shelton is bringing his critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning show, Sinatra: RAW to Lincoln.

Fresh from an acclaimed residency at the Broadwater Theatre in Hollywood, where he won a Hollywood Fringe Award, Richard Shelton is taking Sinatra: RAW on a UK tour.

He is at the New Theatre Royal, Lincoln, on Monday (October 16).

Shelton, who played murderous Dr Adam Forsythe in Emmerdale, was nominated as best actor in a leading role for his portrayal of the icon in Rat Pack Confidential.

In Sinatra: RAW audiences meet Sinatra as he prepares to retire for the first time in 1971. Sinatra gathers a few friends together in the Purple Room, Palm Springs, to sing a few songs around the piano, smoke a few cigarettes and reminisce. As the Jack Daniels goes down, the memories surface and he rails against the iniquities of Mafia allegations, a trail of broken love affairs, a life as the leader of the Rat Pack and a life in Hollywood littered with indiscretions and even a suicide attempt.

Richard’s lifelong affinity with Sinatra, has seen him tour the world extensively, performing by Royal Command for both British and European royalty, at the world-famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Big Band.