Miss-Leading Ladies: The Revenge continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 27 March 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a joy to see a full house in a cabaret room again with brother-and-sister act Ceri Dupree and Ria Jones milking every moment in a riotous evening at the Crazy Coqs. Jones, […]
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Lorna Dallas to premiere new show at Crazy Coqs
Award-winning international theatre and singing star Lorna Dallas will bring her latest show Glamorous Nights and Rainy Days to London’s Crazy Coqs in April. Conceived with the star’s long-time collaborators director Barry Kleinbort and musical director Christopher Denny and featuring standards and rarities by composers as diverse as Michel Legrand, Harold Arlen, Jerry Herman 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 […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are two types of people in the world. Some people – some lucky people – meet another while young, fall in love and live a happy life together soundtracked by all […]
Maria Friedman and Friends Celebrate Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
Maria Friedman and Friends Celebrate Sondheim continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a belter of a start to 2022! The formidable Maria Friedman is rightly showbiz royalty and this was a right-royal celebration in song and story of her mentor and friend, the […]
Comparing Notes: Lucy Schaufer and Edward Seckerson – Crazy Coqs
Comparing Notes: Lucy Schaufer and Edward Seckerson at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After the madcap buffoonery of the inimitable Oscar Conlon-Morrey the previous month, it was a far more peaceful guest that Edward Seckerson introduced in his popular Comparing Notes series at the Crazy Coqs, that […]
The Lightning Thief composer and star to play London date
Broadway composer Rob Rokicki and actress Sarah Beth Pfeifer are heading for London for a rock-infused show at Crazy Coqs on 7 December 2021. Rokicki, co-creator of Drama Desk and Lortel Award-nominated The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical and Pfeifer, one of the stars of the 2017 Off-Broadway revival, the US tour and the […]
Lorna Luft – Crazy Coqs
Lorna Luft performed at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lorna Luft’s love affair with London goes back to the 1960s when her mother Judy Garland decided to move to the British capital, ultimately bringing her kids along. Aside from a few theatrical appearances at other venues, notably in Babes […]
Bette Midler …and Me – Crazy Coqs
Bette Midler …and Me was performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. West End star Sue Kelvin took to the Crazy Coqs stage, accompanied by performer Me’sha Bryan and pianist Erika Gundesen. Kelvin celebrates all things Bette Midler in her touring show Bette Midler …and Me, performing her hits, covers and providing tales of Midler’s life […]
Comparing Notes: Oscar Conlon-Morrey with Edward Seckerson – Crazy Coqs
Comparing Notes: Oscar Conlon-Morrey with Edward Seckerson at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There cannot be a better way of spending a Sunday afternoon than in the company of the outrageously talented Oscar Conlon-Morrey which is what those lucky enough to be at the Crazy Coqs did for […]
Flop! Hit Songs from Musical Misfires – Live at Zédel
Flop! Hit Songs from Musical Misfires at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zédel, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Never have I been treated to so many song gems from often obscure shows than during this show at the legendary Zédel which I had missed so much during my 18-month absence from England due […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Barb Jungr, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan. Three names that hovered in my musical consciousness. At the peak of the popularity of Dylan and Cohen my musical interests lay in other directions. […]
West End stars feature in Crazy Coqs’ reopening plans
Sophie-Louise Dann, Dominic Ferris, Ria Jones and Cassidy Janson will be among the line-up of artists to feature in the reopening programme at London’s Crazy Coqs from 17 May 2021. Subject to the Government’s ability to stick to its proposed roadmap to recovery, the popular venue within the Brasserie Zédel complex in Soho has announced […]
Black Matter – Crazy Coqs
Black Matter is available to stream on demand from 24-31 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and other crimes against people of colour, last year’s Black Lives Matter protests coincided with a pandemic lockdown, resulting in a conflict of personal isolation […]
Giles Terera to debut lockdown-inspired song cycle Black Matter
Olivier Award-winner Giles Terera takes centre stage online next month in Black Matter – a new song cycle written by the Hamilton actor inspired by the changes to life in London’s Soho during lockdown. Filmed using multiple cameras during lockdown at Soho’s Crazy Coqs, Black Matter features Terera accompanying himself on guitar and piano as […]
New season launch for online version of Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Party
Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Party has returned to the virtual stage on Zoom for the launch of its winter/spring season. Following on from a successful move online in 2020, the popular cabaret show which is the longest-running show at London’s leading jazz and cabaret venue The Crazy Coqs, is celebrating its eighth year with fortnightly […]
An Evening With David Bedella – Crazy Coqs
An Evening With David Bedella live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ London-based American David Bedella’s first solo cabaret for 15 years made light of the absence of a live audience at Piccadilly nightspot Crazy Coqs with a smooth, polished performance of the highest class for all his unseen, forced-to-stay-at-home […]
Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs
Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London (repeated at 6.30pm and 8.30pm on 17 December 2020). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the almost unbearably cute six-year-old who won TV talent show Opportunity Knocks to her multiple stage successes and TV soap fame, there hasn’t been much in […]
60 Glorious Years: I’m Still Here! – Stefan Bednarczyk – Crazy Coqs
60 Glorious Years: I’m Still Here! – Stefan Bednarczyk – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ An hour spent with cabaret maestro Stefan Bednarczyk is always a pleasure and this man of many parts did not let us down, even though the Crazy Coqs show he put together to […]
First Date – Crazy Coqs
First Date, a musical streamed from Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 24 October 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Two-hander boutique musicals have been staged before in the Crazy Coqs cabaret room at Zédel’s but First Date is different, a full-blown online show about the dating game with a cast of five that […]
Samantha Barks and Simon Lipkin to star in virtual version of First Date
Samantha Barks and Simon Lipkin will take the lead in a virtual production of the Broadway musical First Date next month. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions and Crazy Coqs, the production will be filmed at London’s Crazy Coqs and will be made available for streaming on 22, 23 and 24 October 2020 at 7.30pm. Due […]
Janie Dee: New Life – Live at Zédel
Janie Dee: New Life at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel, London until 10 September 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Live cabaret is back in town at last after five Covid-wrecked months and the Crazy Coqs could not have picked a more delightful star to launch the restart than the adorable, incredibly […]
Crazy Coqs announces August and September live and live-streamed programme
Janie Dee, Maria Friedman, Lauren Samuels, Sophie Evans, Cedric Neal and a celebration of the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber will be among the attractions lined up to feature over the next two months at London’s Crazy Coqs within the Brasserie Zédel complex. Subject to Government guidelines and any changes to lockdown rules, the popular […]
Home Again: Lorna Dallas – Crazy Coqs YouTube channel
Home Again: Lorna Dallas on Stay At Home With Crazy Coqs YouTube channel. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In these depressing times, the chance to spend 75 minutes in the company of a true star of a bygone era, the exquisite American soprano Lorna Dallas, was a rare treat. This was Dallas’ 2017 […]
Stay At Home with Crazy Coqs on YouTube
Popular London entertainment space Crazy Coqs will launch a new free online series from Monday (6 April 2020) to help keep the stay-at-home country entertained during the current crisis. Crazy Coqs artists have been submitting content, either previously recorded at the popular venue or created in isolation, to feature in the Stay at Home with […]
Kate Garner: Songs From the Art Deco Decades – Live at Zédel
Kate Garner: Songs From the Art Deco Decades at Live at Zédel, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Singer, pianist and songwriter Kate Garner presents a very eclectic programme of music in her programme of songs from an earlier age. Her father was the late Chas Hodges, of Chas & Dave fame, while […]
Gary Williams: A Swingin’ Christmas – Live At Zédel
Gary Williams: A Swingin’ Christmas continues at Live at Zédel, London until 23 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It just would not be Christmas without Gary Williams kicking off the festivities at the Crazy Coqs. The opening number ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ contains the line “Have a party tonight” and a […]
Live At Zedel announces over 100 shows for new season
London entertainment hub Live At Zédel at Crazy Coqs has unveiled a winter season packed with a record 110 shows covering a wide range of genres. Produced, once again, in partnership with Fane Productions Ltd, Live At Zédel’s programme of live music, musical theatre, comedy and cabaret includes solo shows from musical theatre leading ladies […]
Zedel return for Joan Vazquez’s Sondheim show
Spanish artist Joan Vázquez will return to London next month with his celebration of musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim, Something’s Coming – a Sondheim Tribute. The performer, who made his London debut last autumn as part of the launch season of entertainment concept Live At Zédel, will once again appear at the Crazy Coqs on […]
Liza sings… Streisand – Liza Pulman – Live At Zédel
Liza sings… Streisand – Liza Pulman at Live At Zédel, London (also shows on 22 May and 12 June). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When adding Barbra Streisand’s first album to the Chapman record collection in 1963 (still have it and it’s still sounding special 54 years later), little did we […]
Open Mic Night – 4th Birthday – Live At Zédel
Harold Sanditen’s Open Mic Night – 4th Birthday at Live At Zédel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Open Mic Night in the Crazy Coqs cabaret bar at Live At Zédel is now celebrating its fourth year. Originally a weekly event, this now monthly gig has become a Mecca for […]
Farewell to Ruth Leon at London’s Crazy Coqs
The Crazy Coqs, the premier cabaret room in the West End, is no more – it reopens in September rebranded as Tonight At Zedel under its new artistic director, American singer-songwriter Scott Alan, with a broader canvas of activities aimed at making more use of the space. Much-loved programmer and host Ruth Leon said ‘Welcome […]
Sally Kellerman – Crazy Coqs
Sally Kellerman performs A Little Jazz, A Little Blues, A Little Rock and Roll at the Crazy Coqs, London until 23 July. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Although best known as a movie actress, Sally Kellerman was Oscar-nominated for playing ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan in the original Robert Altman film M*A*S*H – she has also enjoyed […]
That’s Life – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel – Crazy Coqs
That’s Life – Barb Jungr and John McDaniel at Crazy Coqs, London until 2 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The much-travelled Barb Jungr takes the Crazy Coqs into its final month with her unique spin on classic pop before the lovely Piccadilly nightspot changes its name (to Tonight at Zedel), management and scope. She […]
Gary Williams – Hollywood Swings – Crazy Coqs
Gary Williams – Hollywood Swings continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 28 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Gary Williams, a great favourite of Crazy Coqs patrons, returns with his latest cabaret which he dubs ‘A Technicolor Celebration of the Silver Screen’. And what he delivers is what it says on the […]
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends – Michele Brourman – Crazy Coqs
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends was performed by Michele Brourman at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After two weeks of caressing the ivories while her great pal Amanda McBroom took centrestage, the pocket rocket of American cabaret, “4ft 11 on a good day” […]
Up Close and Personal – Amanda McBroom – Crazy Coqs
Up Close and Personal – Amanda McBroom continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 7 May, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Crazy Coqs host Ruth Leon announces Amanda McBroom as “arguably the greatest cabaret performer in the world”, but nobody was arguing after […]
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters – Crazy Coqs
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 24 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There aren’t enough stars in the galaxy adequately to convey the extraordinary pleasure of spending 90 minutes in the company of this […]
Let’s Do It! – Tiffany Graves – Crazy Coqs
Let’s Do It! – Tiffany Graves at the Crazy Coqs, London (also on 18 April). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ West End leading lady Tiffany Graves switches effortlessly and bewitchingly from the world of musical theatre to the very different art of cabaret in this multi-layered confection and those who have […]
Double Standards – Liane Carroll and Claire Martin – Crazy Coqs
Double Standards with Liane Carroll and Claire Martin continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 9 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Acclaimed and multi-award winning jazz singers Claire Martin and Liane Carroll join forces for the first time in this intimate night of song and musical mischief. Martin, a Crazy Coqs […]
Tiffany Graves brings new show to Crazy Coqs
West End star Tiffany Graves will be performing her new solo cabaret show Let’s Do It! at London’s Crazy Coqs for two nights next month. The actress/singer, whose show at St James Theatre Studio last year was nominated for the Best Musical Cabaret Show of 2015 at the MyTheatreMates.com awards, will return to the cabaret […]
Anne Reid – I Love To Sing – Crazy Coqs
Anne Reid performs I Love to Sing at the Crazy Coqs, London until 2 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Much-loved actress Anne Reid returns to the Crazy Coqs where she triumphed last year when she presented a long-deserved tribute to the prolific songwriting team of Comden and Green – an evening that made this old […]
London Festival of Cabaret 2016 – all the details
Full programme details have been announced for this year’s London Festival of Cabaret which will run at various venues across the capital from 22 April until 8 May. Now in its fourth year, the festival, which aims to celebrate the great composers, lyricists and interpreters of popular song, will take place at four host venues: […]
Marti Webb In Concert – Crazy Coqs
Marti Webb In Concert continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 17 March. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It would be indelicate to point out Marti Webb’s age, but as she lists a selection of her career highlights, it puts the performer into a remarkable perspective. Webb’s career officially began in 1961, when […]
KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar Sing Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
Another Hundred People – KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar Sing Sondheim – Act Two at Crazy Coqs, London until 5 March. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Forty examples of the genius of Stephen Sondheim shoehorned into 70 minutes of total delight and sung by two of Manhattan’s best-loved performers at London’s most charming […]
Liliane Montevecchi – Crazy Coqs
Liliane Montevecchi continues at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 27 February. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whatever the French is for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should be the title of Liliane Montevecchi’s second Crazy Coqs visit because it is an almost song-for-song, anecdote-for-anecdote replica of last February’s Paris On the […]
Julie Atherton – Crazy Coqs
Julie Atherton performs at the Crazy Coqs, London until 20 February. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Making her debut at Crazy Coqs, Julie Atherton comes with an extensive background in musical theatre. She created the roles of Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in the hit show Avenue Q and has played the lead […]
Julie Atherton debut at Crazy Coqs features special West End guests
Multi-talented West End star Julie Atherton will make her debut at London cabaret venue the Crazy Coqs tonight (16 February) in the first of five special shows. The Preston-born entertainer who created the roles of Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in the hit show Avenue Q, will perform a set list of songs taken […]
The Best Bits of Roulston and Young – Crazy Coqs
Michael Roulston and Sarah-Louise Young perform their show The Best Bits of Roulston and Young at the Crazy Coqs, London until 30 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This extremely talented couple makes a triumphant return to the Crazy Coqs to celebrate their ten-year partnership of songwriting together. It’s an evening which includes both old and new […]
Linzi Hateley – Crazy Coqs
Linzi Hateley continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 21 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Linzi Hateley opens and closes her cabaret with ‘True Colours’, perhaps a metaphor for her act which looks back on her life and her 28 years on the stage. Inevitably her starting point was playing, at 17, […]
