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Comments & a critique...!

"Larry is the most infuriating condescending piano player we have ever met. He  bullies us into giving him a request.  When we do he either refuses to play it -  tells us to go into the elevator and
listen out for Kenny G....! Great fun..."
GF, Ohio (Crystal
Symphony)
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"You have a voice that  makes lonely women
feel that little bit less lonely..." SF
(Crystal Harmony 2005)
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"Great fun,  great voice, great piano playing - insulted us nightly and still we came back  for more and more..." R & G M (USA) Queen Mary 2 2007
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"Get out of my way...."
Frank  Sinatra, London Palladium 1972
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"I'm  trying to do a sound check. Can you please get out NOW..." 
Barry Manilow, QEII, Osaka
1990
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"One thing you never do is try  and out talk Larry. When he's behind the piano he's in charge and  boy does he  keep reminding us....
We heard some of the funniest put downs  to people who thought they could outsmart him. Great show, Larry..."
GD (Santa Barbara, Calif) Coral Princess
2007
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"Forget about going to the
tour office and asking what a port is going to be like. Listen to Larry's
nightly report on how 'ghastly' the next day is going to be!!!!
He had us in  stitches every night.
A really funny guy who just happens to play the piano and  sing great..." 
Martha V (LA) Coral  Princess 2007
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"If Larry isn't on  our next Princess cruise we're going to book
Celebrity...!" 
The 'BRITISH SISTERS'  Coral Princess  2007
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 "A first class performer who not only  dominates Crooners Bar but brings his  audience in and involves them. Every  person left feeling they had seen someone very  special....
George G. (UK Member of  Parliament. Coral Princess 2007
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 "You are a  despicable anarchist..."
Fr. George Earle SJ
1971 (Stonyhurst  College)
as he revelled in expelling  aforementioned piano player.
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 "No  music - no rehearsal, Larry - we'll just do it!
So waddaya  know?"
Ella  Fitzgerald to a very young  quivering piano player who suddenly felt he was wearing boxing  gloves!
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"..He has been likened to Simon Cowell, Frasier, Basil Fawlty and even Stewie  from Family Guy. But whatever the comparison Larry Dunsmore is simply the funniest acerbic piano entertainer in the business today!
 
Possessing an extraordinary voice, great piano playing coupled with a  
scathing wit Larry is guaranteed to have any audience laughing and bopping at the same time. He is the ultimate performer and draws his audience in (victims  as he affectionately likes to call them) from the moment he sits down at the piano and frowns.  They are in for a treat!\

We heard some of the funniest put  downs we have ever heard and we marvelled at the speed he delivered in what is  always an unscripted and totally improvised show. 

We watched his piano bar show no less than 14  times and each time it was completely different from the previous night. It is  understandable why his audience are reserving seats up to 2 hours before he  begins...

His headline shows "To Be Perfectly  Frank" and the amazing "Hollywood Heroes" leave his audiences feeling as though  they have witnessed something very  special..."

GMF 2011
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