KT Sullivan & Jeff Harnar, Anne Reid and More Slated for The Crazy Coqs This Month

Nothing but blue skies at Crazy Coqs this month.

In like lions at the beginning of the month come the multi-award winning vocalists KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar with their Sondheim extravaganza Another Hundred People to be followed by the legendary king of campery Julian Clary the following week. The musical goddess Marti Webb continues the month, back by popular demand to perform songs from her shows and recordings.

Hot on her heels is "the most accomplished interpreter of American popular music performing today" Marlene Verplanck accompanied by John Pearce, Paul Morgan, and very special guest, British trombone star, Mark Nightingale to sing in Spring. Then to round the month off comes the grandest lady in the Easter parade, the hugely popular actress and cabaret artist, Anne Reid.

All this and more March madness at Crazy Coqs. For full listings, visit www.brasseriezedel.com.

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Crazy Coqs March 2016 Headliners:
All start at 8pm unless otherwise stated

TUESDAY 1st - SATURDAY 5th MARCH - £30

KT SULLIVAN AND JEFF HARNAR

Multi-Award-winning New York vocalists KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar return to The Crazy Coqs with Another Hundred People the sequel to last season's Our Time. Together they weave the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim into a tapestry that explores contemporary attitudes on love, loss and laughter with a gender- bending twist that The New York Times called "Sex role reversals in Sondheim"." Comprised of songs from Sondheim's hit Broadway shows, including Company; A Little Night Music; Into the Woods; Sweeney Todd and Follies and Hollywood scores (Dick Tracy) audiences can expect standards (Broadway Baby; Not a Day Goes By; Not While I'm Around; Side by Side by Side) and surprises, such as Sondheim's first published song, How Do I Know?, written when he was 15. The show has played to sold-out houses at New York's The Laurie Beechman and was recently filmed for PBS. The show has been nominated for 5 BroadwayWorld.com Awards including Best Tribute Show, Best Duo Show, Best Musical Director & Best Director.

TUESDAY 8th - SAT 12th MARCH - £35

JULIAN CLARY

'Any opportunity to grace the stage of Crazy Coqs must be firmly grasped. Apart from the fabulous de?cor, elegant atmosphere and thin-hipped waiters I get the chance to meet the public in all their Dorothy Perkins finery. It's more of an encounter group than a gig, to be honest.'

Following his sell-out residency in 2015, Julian Clary is back with An Evening With Julian Clary - a daringly intimate night of camp cabaret alongside pianist Simon Wallace. Expect music (after a fashion), an abundance of laughter, sharp- witted jibes - often at the expense of the audience - and partying up close and personal with the man himself. Oh, and eye watering filth.

Much-loved comedian and elder statesman of the double entendre, Julian remains one of the country's most popular and least predictable entertainers.

For the last 30 years he has amused and abused us and will soon be embarking on a National Tour called The Joy of Mincing.

TUESDAY 15th TO WEDNESDAY 17TH MARCH - £30

MARTI WEBB

Marti Webb returns to Crazy Coqs singing songs from her musical shows and recordings.

Long established as one of Britain's favourite musical stars she has performed leading roles in the West End productions of Stop The World I Want To Get Off, Half-a-Sixpence, Oliver, Godspell, The Card, Good Companions, Evita, Song and Dance, Cats, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tell Me On A Sunday, Blood Brothers and The 7 Deadly Sins (for the ENO). In addition Marti has starred in the touring productions of Oliver, Evita, The Goodbye Girl, Annie, The King and I, Hot Flush, Oklahoma and 42nd Street.

Marti recently had a sell-out week at the St James Theatre with Tell Me On A Sunday which transferred to the Duchess Theatre for a further 3 weeks. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and earned her a nomination for an Olivier Award. The musical was written for Marti by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, originally a number 1 album and TV special. She has made nine solo albums, appeared in four Royal Variety performances and has made many TV appearances.

FRIDAY 18th - SATURDAY 19th MARCH - £25

MARLENE VERPLANCK

Marlene VerPlanck will be featuring selections from her new CD, The Mood I'm In, a magnificent selection of songs by top songwriters including Harry Warren, Duke Ellington, Cahn/VanHusen. Marlene performs with John Pearce, Paul Morgan, and very special guest, British trombone star, Mark Nightingale.

Marlene began her career as the voice of countless commercials and performed as a studio singer alongside everyone from Sinatra to Kiss. Her career as a solo artist has spanned decades, with a growing roster of solo albums and acclaimed appearances across North America and Europe.

She is perhaps best known for the personal connection she brings to standards from the Great American Songbook, as well as new songs from today's composers.

TUESDAY 22 - SAT 26 MARCH & TUESDAY 29 MARCH - SATURDAY 2ND APRIL - £35

ANNE REID

Anne Reid is one of Britain's most-loved and respected actors, star of the very popular Last Tango in Halifax, Ladies of Letters, Dinnerladies and Coronation Street. What is less well known is her life as a cabaret performer, whose voice is perhaps more Mary Martin than Ethel Merman, is as versatile as a cabaret artist as she is as an actress and with timing that is equal of any stand-up comic. Telling backstage stories, Anne sings songs and ballads from a varied assortment of songwriters.

Every since she was memorably electrocuted by a hair dryer in the early days of Coronation Street, Anne Reid has been a familiar figure to audiences everywhere in her many roles on television, stage and screen. In 2004 she received accolades and acclaim for her starring role in the film The Mother, as a woman who has an affair with her daughter's boy-friend, played by Daniel Craig.

Only recently has she branched out into musicals, with roles in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods at the Royal Opera House and Cole Porter's Out of This World in Chichester.

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