Daryl Sherman performs her show Tale of Three Cities at the Crazy Coqs, London until 12 July. “It’s a hermetically-sealed bubble of civilisation,” says American jazz singer-pianist Daryl Sherman of the increasingly popular London cabaret room Crazy Coqs, but it’s also worth pointing out that this kind of atmosphere can only be created when artists as […]
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Kate Dimbleby – The Dory Previn Story – Crazy Coqs
Kate Dimbleby performed The Dory Previn Story at the Crazy Coqs, London. Right at the start of her set at this stylish, somewhat bijou art deco venue in the heart of bustling Piccadilly, Kate Dimbleby asked a small but clearly enthused audience: “How many of you had even heard of Dory Previn before you came tonight?” […]
Emerging Artists – catch the latest show at Crazy Coqs
“Despite the financial rewards of a West End hit, there are still relatively few avenues for new musical theatre writers to showcase their new work. Thankfully Simon Greiff has recognised this need and created Emerging Artists at the Crazy Coqs in central London. Picking up the late night slot at the popular cabaret venue, Emerging Artists offers to introduce […]
Bryan Batt – Batt On a Hot Tin Roof – Crazy Coqs
Bryan Batt performed his show Batt On a Hot Tin Roof at the Crazy Coqs, London. Some performers’ cabaret sets stuggle to feel coherent. I’ve lost count of the number of times the sole theme seems to be “here are songs I learnt for audition purposes, and so help me I’m going to reuse them now”. And it […]
Time After Time – KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler – Crazy Coqs
Time After Time – KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Stopping over in London for a few days after performing on a Queen Mary 2 cabaret cruise from New York to Southampton, the delicious KT Sullivan made a most welcome return visit to the Crazy Coqs, this time with her […]
Harold Sanditen – Flyin’ High – Crazy Coqs
Harold Sanditen performed his show Flyin’ High at the Crazy Coqs, London. Regulars at the ever-sophisticated London music room Crazy Coqs will know Harold Sanditen best as the host of the popular weekly Open Mic nights at the venue (Thursdays at 10.30pm), a venture which recently celebrated its first birthday. However, on this occasion the […]
Claire Martin and Joe Stilgoe – April in Paris – Crazy Coqs
Claire Martin and Joe Stilgoe perform April in Paris at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 19 April. When they played at the Crazy Coqs last year these two highly talented artists were an outstanding success. They now return with their new show which celebrates that most romantic of cities – Paris – the City of […]
Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
Ann Hampton Callaway: Diva Power continues at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 12 April. It’s been 13 years since the multi-talented American singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway last aired her amazing vocal pyrotechnics and wicked sense of fun in London town and that’s far, far too long. She claims she hasn’t been back since 2001 “because […]
Emerging Artists – Crazy Coqs
Emerging Artists at the Crazy Coqs, London. Despite the financial rewards of a West End hit, there are still relatively few avenues for new musical theatre writers to showcase their new work. Thankfully Simon Grieff has recognised this need and created Emerging Artists at the Crazy Coqs in central London. Picking up the late night slot […]
Patti Boulaye – Crazy Coqs
Patti Boulaye performs at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 8 March. First of all, I have to declare an interest. Along with thousands of red-blooded males, I was totally smitten by Patti Boulaye when she won the 1978 edition of New Faces, the X Factor of its day, and many a good marriage was put […]
Jeff Harnar – Crazy Coqs
Jeff Harnar performs Does This Song Make Me Look Fat? at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 1 March. With his dapper charm and New York polish, Jeff Harnar was always a cabaret singer who made the game look easy, but the eye-catchingly named Does This Song Make Me Look Fat? show he brings with him […]
Emerging Artists season at Crazy Coqs
Simon Greiff for SimG Productions, in association with the Crazy Coqs, is presenting the Emerging Artists season. Following last November’s successful launch (as part of the inaugural London Festival of Cabaret), Emerging Artists will return for three nights at the acclaimed Crazy Coqs. This season will feature emerging British based writers and performers presenting original […]
Natalie Douglas – Crazy Coqs
Natalie Douglas sings Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey & Billie at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 15 February. New York jazz and cabaret star Natalie Douglas is one of those performers who fills a room with warmth and sheer loveability just by coming on the stage. Her second residency at the Crazy Coqs, one of […]
Liz Callaway – Crazy Coqs
An Evening with Liz Callaway at the Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 1 February. Just when everybody thought the evening was going like clockwork, Broadway star Liz Callaway ‘forgot’ her lines in the ridiculously fast ‘Another 100 People’ and had the first night Crazy Coqs audience gasping in surprise and sympathy as the Sondheim classic […]
Brent Barrett – Crazy Coqs
Brent Barrett performs his show Night Songs at the Crazy Coqs, London until 18 January. Having wowed audiences at the Victoria Palace in 2001 with his performance as Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate, for which he received an Olivier nomination, Brent Barrett returns to make his London cabaret debut with Night Songs. The theme […]
Carole J Bufford – Crazy Coqs
Carole J Bufford performs her show Body and Soul at the Crazy Coqs, London until Saturday 11 January. Now we know why the New York cabaret world is raving about the new kid on the block. Carole J Bufford is very, very special. A standing ovation for her very first gig outside the USA at […]
Open Mic nights at Crazy Coqs
Open Mic nights at the Crazy Coqs, London, every Thursday at 10.30pm. Night-owls grumble there is not much cabaret around in London once they have seen a show or a movie, so the success of the Crazy Coqs’ Open Mic Thursdays is to be welcomed. Starting at 10.30pm and hosted by cabaret singer and performer […]
Emerging Artists – Crazy Coqs
Emerging Artists was performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. It’s all well and good to celebrate the songbooks of America and Europe as part of the London Festival of Cabaret but the concept would be considered a museum piece if there wasn’t adequate time given over to new, original work. Kit and McConnel, Miss Hope Springs […]
KT Sullivan – Crazy Coqs
KT Sullivan performs Rhyme, Women and Song at the Crazy Coqs, London until 2 November. If there’s anything better than having KT Sullivan in London for a week, it’s having that delicious Oklahoma songbird here for two. Following her Vienna to Weimar show alongside Karen Kohler in the London Festival of Cabaret series at the […]
Frances Ruffelle – French Connection
Frances Ruffelle’s new cabaret, Paris Original, will be a celebration of French singers and songs. The show premieres at the Crazy Coqs from 8–12 October and represents something of a golden Gallic thread that has run through her career. This began when, at the age of 19, she originated the role of Eponine in Les […]
Miss Hope Springs – Crazy Coqs
Miss Hope Springs performs Out of this World at the Crazy Coqs, London. Whilst the lion’s share of events for the London Festival of Cabaret will be taking place through October and November, here is a chance to sample early one of the delights on offer. Miss Hope Springs is the brain-child of accomplished singer/songwriter Ty […]
John Barr – Self Portrait – Crazy Coqs
John Barr performed Self Portrait at the Crazy Coqs, London. Monday nights at the Crazy Coqs are rapidly becoming something of a treat as they afford fledgling artists and seasoned performers a chance to try out new material or hone their cabaret style in a one-off show. Among those seasoned performers is John Barr, a […]
Leanne Masterton – Crazy Coqs
Leanne Masterton performed Something Good at the Crazy Coqs, London. The tinkling piano strains to be heard over yet another packed house at the Crazy Coqs, as this most enchanting of London venues plays host to Leanne Masterton, performing her one-woman tribute to Richard Rodgers. A newcomer to this stage, Masterton has already performed in occasional […]
Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano – Crazy Coqs
Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack – Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano at the Crazy Coqs, London. It was most inconsiderate of Andy Murray to drag out his quarter-final until 7.20pm on Wednesday as nobody was going to leave their sofa or Wimbledon seat until the final point had been won, and that was surely […]
Anne Reid at Crazy Coqs
Anne Reid In a New Key, at the Crazy Coqs, London. Electrocuted as Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street in 1971, Dinnerladied by Victoria Wood in 1998, kit off as a daring 66-year-old who beds a pre-Bond Daniel Craig in The Mother in 2003 and wooed by Derek Jacobi in last autumn’s wonderful TV series Last Tango […]
Liz Robertson Sings Her Favourite Songs
Reviewed at The Crazy Coqs, London. Forty years on from making her showbiz bow as a cabaret dancer at the nearby Savoy Hotel, the ageless Liz Robertson is back in cabaret mode for her one-woman show at The Crazy Coqs, the new go-to Piccadilly nightspot for lovers of the genre which becomes ever more polished […]
