Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/Oct/2023
Genre - Theatre
Performed & Conceived by Hal Cazalet
Music Director / Pianist – Simon Beck
Director / Co-writer – Hugh Wooldridge
An Evening of Music, Laughter, Romance & Glamour.
Play On Words sees multi-accomplished performer, composer and lyricist Hal Cazalet honouring the Broadway career of his step Great-Grandfather P.G. Wodehouse, alongside his 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, Maury Yeston, Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Cazalet, Dudley Moore, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Ayckbourn, and many more.
Simon Beck
Simon Beck is the Music Supervisor/Conductor of the Glamis Prom with the Scottish Pops Orchestra, Live At Las Vegas, Scott Alan Live at IndigO2, West End Stars In Concert with the Orchestra of Contemporary Music of ERT starring Ramin Karimloo, and Dancing On Ice on Greek national TV.
Hugh Wooldridge
Hugh Wooldridge is a director, teacher, producer, lighting designer and writer. He has been a resident director in three UK theatres including the Old Vic in London; he was the Head of Music for Television South. For the past 25 years, he is best known for creating and directing large scale concerts and events including the international tours of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Golden Wedding Celebration of HM The Queen at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
