Patrick Honoré reflects on a few Off-Broadway gems from a recent visit to New York… Wonderful Town, New York City City Center Encores! Wonderful Town, as part of Lincoln Center’s venerated Encores! series, continued to affirm its status as a Broadway classic, primarily thanks to Leonard Bernstein’s immortal score, which includes iconic compositions such as […]
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Linda Lavin: Love Notes / Billy Stritch: Cy Coleman Revisited – Crazy Coqs
Linda Lavin: Love Notes at the Crazy Coqs, London Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Billy Stritch: Cy Coleman Revisited at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ La crème de la crème from the New York cabaret scene were at the Crazy Coqs for the […]
Broadway star Linda Lavin to make London concert debut
Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress and singer Linda Lavin will make her London concert debut at Crazy Coqs in September. The Broadway legend who received the first of her six Tony Award nominations in 1970 for her performance in the Neil Simon play Last of the Red Hot Lovers, will bring her show Love Notes […]
Lillias White sings Broadway / Hoagy Carmichael & Friends – Crazy Coqs
Lillias White sings Broadway / Hoagy Carmichael & Friends at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (for each show!) Lillias White is making her cabaret debut in London, with master musical director Billy Stritch on piano. Her first show is Lillias White sings Broadway, appropriately starting with a mashup […]
Broadway star Lillias White takes centre stage at London’s Crazy Coqs
Multi-award-winning Broadway star LILLIAS WHITE will bring two of her most popular shows to London’s Crazy Coqs this April. The star whose Broadway credits include Cats, Fela!, Chicago, Barnum and How to Success in Business Without Really Trying will take centre stage from 14-23 April 2022 for alternate performances of Lillias White Sings Broadway and […]
Broadway’s Lillias White to star in two shows in London
Multi-award-winning Broadway star Lillias White will bring two of her most popular shows to London’s Crazy Coqs this April. The star whose Broadway credits include Cats, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Fela, Chicago and Barnum will take centre stage from 14-23 April 2022 for alternate performances of Lillias White Sings Broadway and […]
New York round-up – tributes to Cy Coleman, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin
During a recent visit to New York, Patrick Honoré was entertained by top-notch tributes to three of Broadway’s greatest composers – Cy Coleman, Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin. On top of all the new musicals opening this spring, Broadway was alive with the sound of the music from three of its greatest composers. The first of […]
Liza Minnelli interviewed at London Palladium show in September
Currently in her sixth decade of performing, Liza Minnelli, winner of four Tony Awards, an Oscar, a Grammy, two Golden Globe Awards, an Emmy and a BAFTA, is to follow in the footsteps of Hollywood movie greats Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, John Travolta and Arnold Schwarzenegger by getting up-close and personal with her British fans […]
Billy Stritch – My Musical Heroes – The Pheasantry
Billy Stritch: My Musical Heroes continues at The Pheasantry, London, until 4 October. Award-winning composer, arranger, vocalist and jazz pianist Billy Stritch is back in town and deserving of a far bigger audience than the meagre 20 who saw him open mid-week at The Pheasantry. In the full-house Ronnie Scott’s audience the night before to hear […]
