We Think You Should See Ben Jones at Blue Strawberry

Ben Jones is a singer, comedian, storyteller and actor who has appeared in front of audiences worldwide, from the Edinburgh International Festival to the Shanghai Concert Hall. His versatile voice has been featured on recordings on the Albany, Naxos and Delos labels, on A Prairie Home Companion, on the soundtracks for the best-selling video game franchises Halo and Civilization, and on commercials for Coors Light and Meow Mix. He was most recently seen as Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game in San Francisco. In 2022, he won a BroadwayWorld Cabaret award honoring his work in New York’s hottest clubs during the height of the pandemic.

Ben returns to St. Louis on November 19 to share his new show, “I Think We Should See Other People”, at Blue Strawberry. He spoke with Classic 107.3’s Julie Schuster about how he and his music director Ron Abel put the show together and some of the great music that audiences can expect to hear during his performance. Listen to their conversation below; find out more about the show and purchase tickets here.

Classic 107.3 · We Think You Should See Ben Jones at Blue Strawberry

Ben Jones returns to Blue Strawberry with a funny, moving and deeply personal evening of classic standards, soaring showstoppers and modern hits, punctuated with raucous, side-splitting and devastatingly honest stories from his own love life. Serenading audiences with his “extraordinary voice” (Night Life Exchange), Jones appears alongside his music director and collaborator, the legendary Ron Abel. In this hilarious followup to his “Jaw-Dropping” (BroadwayWorld) first show, I Think I’m in Love, Ben confronts relationships, breakups, sex and infidelity head-on with his original “puckish sense of humor” and “tongue-in-cheek mixture of comedy and sex” (BroadwayWorld).

Featuring songs by Joni Mitchell, Harold Arlen, John Mayer, Bruno Mars, Peter Allen, Bo Burnham, Stephen Sondheim and Lin-Manuel Miranda, this show is sure to be an evening of “musical talent, humorous storytelling, authentic personality, and energetic positivity” (BroadwayWorld) that you won’t want to miss!

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