Packed Majestic for Jonathan | Noosa Today

By Ian Jobling

Noosa entertainer Jonathan Anstock showed it isn’t only “big names from the glittering world of showbiz” who can pack a theatre.

It was standing room only last Saturday night at the Majestic Theatre in Pomona when Jonathan, in an all too brief two hours, presented ‘The Spirit of Leonard Cohen’ – his personal cabaret-style tribute to the Canadian singer-songwriter who died four years ago.

Complete with hat and charcoal-grey suit, the Cohen look-a-like Jonathan strolled on stage and from the moment he started his first of 17 songs, ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’, he had the audience enthralled.

In addition to his ability to sustain the character of Leonard Cohen, other highlights of the show…