PLAY ON WORDS' A CELEBRATION OF P. G. WODEHOUSE ON BROADWAY. Hal Cazalet, Janie Dee & Simon Beck
at St Mary the Virgin, Wingham, Canterbury
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'PLAY ON WORDS' A CELEBRATION OF P. G. WODEHOUSE ON BROADWAY.
Hal Cazalet, Janie Dee & Simon Beck
St Mary the Virgin Church, Wingham, Canterbury, CT3 1BB
Sun 7th September 2025
Performer, composer and lyricist Hal Cazalet honouring the Broadway career of his step Great- Grandfather, P.G. Wodehouse, is joined by Janie Dee, star of stage and screen and pianist Simon Beck to perform favourite songs celebrating the birth of the American musical and theatrical writing highlights of the last 120 years. Featuring the work of P.G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Cazalet, Dudley Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Ayckbourn, and many more.
Janie Dee
Multi-talented star of West End musicals, Janie Dee has earned herself a TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical (Hello Dolly) plus two Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards.
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Simon Beck
Simon, the singer, has headlined at The Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry, Jermyn Street Theatre, Pizza On The Park (all London), plus Jazz On Top (Osaka, Japan), Haymarket Theatre (Leicester), Hazlitt Theatre (Maidstone) and sung backing vocals in Maria Friedman’s Re-arranged (Trafalgar Studios, London). Simon's album 'The Courage of a Dreamer' is available on CD (Amazon), all digital platforms, and from simonbeckmusician.com. Simon has played the piano for many leading stars from London and the USA, including Stephanie J Block, Hal Cazalet, Barbara Cook, Lorna Dallas, Sophie-Louise Dann, Ramin Karimloo, Andrew Lippa, Lorna Luft, Sally Mayes, and Liz Robertson. He made his conducting début at the age of 20 as the assistant conductor of the German premier production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Sunset Boulevard'. He made his classical debut conducting Holst, Barry, and Elgar with the Scottish Pops Orchestra at Glamis Castle, Scotland for the Glamis Prom 2018.
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St Mary the Virgin, Wingham
Canterbury Rd
Wingham
Canterbury
CT31BB
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