Hal Cazalet Stars in PLAY ON WORDS Live at Zedel

Hal Cazalet returns to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel following his sell out debut in October 2017 to celebrate the centenary of P.G. Wodehouse on Broadway and his fellow wordsmiths - 'the Men Who Made Musicals' in Play on Words at Soho's Brasserie Zedel from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 February, 2018. The British tenor, a relative of author Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, will be joined by special guests, to be announced in due course, with Simon Beck on piano and directed by Hugh Wooldridge at London's premier cabaret room.

Play On Words sees multi-accomplished performer, composer and lyricist Hal Cazalet honouring the work of his step Great-Grandfather P.G. Wodehouse, alongside his favourite songs celebrating the birth of the Broadway musical and theatrical writing highlights of the last 100 years. Featuring the work of P.G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Maury Yeston, Stephen Sondheim, Dudley Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber with Alan Ayckbourn, and more.

Hal Cazalet, performer and co-devisor, has performed in opera, musical theatre and cabaret across Europe and the USA. He trained at the Juilliard Opera Centre, New York and has gone on to originate lead roles in world premiere operas including Tod Machover's Pulitzer Prize nominated Death and the Powers and Philip Glass's Les Enfants Terribles. Other shows include Rodgers, Rodgers and Guettel at The Kaufman Centre and PG's Other Profession at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York with pianist Steven Blier and the New York Festival of Song. As a composer and lyricist, Hal's new musical of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince was featured in New Songs 4 New Shows (Lyric Theatre, West End).

Simon Beck, musical director and piano, worked on original productions of Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Chicago, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, and revivals of Showboat, and The Woman In White. Beck has enjoyed a varied concert and cabaret career conducting/playing piano for Stephanie J Block, Barbara Cook, Cynthia Erivo, Maria Friedman, Haydyn Gwynne, Andrew Lippa and Lorna Luft, as well as concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Hugh Wooldridge, director and co-devisor, has directed the premieres Jeeves Takes Charge with Edward Duke, Tell Me On A Sunday with Marti Webb; Just Liz with Liz Robertson, and the award-winning Anthems with Kerry Ellis. Other credits include the world premiere of Nightingale, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; The Night of 1000 Voices; the Ira Gershwin Centenary; The Royal Anniversary Gala, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Circle of Life celebrating the work of Tim Rice and Chess in Concert.

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