Enjoy fantastic Christmas cabaret at Zédel.

 

1 December 2024, 17.00
Lorna Want: All I ‘Want’ for Christmas
£25.00
Olivier Award Winner Lorna Want returns to the Crazy Coqs for an evening of Christmas classics, Musical theatre hits, and more. She will be joined once again by Chris Hatt on Piano, and James Turner on Percussion. In the intimate atmosphere of Crazy Coqs, with Want’s rich and warm vocals, and an array of music through the ages, it is sure to be the perfect start to the festive season…

 

1 December, 19.30, 8 December 2024, 17.00
Michael Dore… My kind of Christmas
£27.50
Michael Dore returns to Crazy Coqs for his popular sell-out annual Christmas shows. Join him as he sings the Christmas hits of Michael Bublé, Barry Manilow, Gregory Porter & many others, along with tracks from his many albums, including his latest, ‘Who am I?’. The show will feature special guests & musical direction from John G Smith.

 

2 December 2024, 19.00
John McCrea & Tori Allen-Martin: Letters To My Younger Self
£30.00
Join John McCrea & Tori Allen-Martin as they embark on a musical journey down memory lane. In a friendship spanning over fifteen years, the two have shared countless triumphs, failures and heartbreaks. Give way to an intimate evening of acoustic numbers that best capture the music that has shaped them both individually and together. Plus special guests.

 

2 December 2024, 21.15
What Would Julie Do? It’s a Jolly Holiday with Julie
£22.50
The popular cabaret group What Would Julie Do? returns to Crazy Coqs with a seasonal special. Join host Rosie Williamson, Musical Director Matthew Samer and their “Juliez” for a Winter evening of musical theatre therapy guided by the practically perfect cardboard Dame Julie Andrews. It’s a Jolly Holiday with Julie is an uplifting show filled with What Would Julie Do?’s signature vocal arrangements, comedy songs, and a festive favourite or two! Expect gorgeous harmonies, much-loved show tunes, new musical theatre numbers, modern takes on Julie Andrews’ classics, plus a bit of Beyoncé! Whatever the Christmas conundrum, the “Juliez” and their trusty cardboard cut-out guru can help! They promise to boost your spirits with a very large spoonful of show tunes in stunning 5-part harmony.

 

3 December 2024, 19.00
A Very Tiano Christmas
£30.00
Chris Hamilton & Shimi Goodman met at Guildford School of Acting twenty-four years ago and have been making music together ever since. Together, they form the exciting musical Tenor & Piano duo – Tiano. They are delighted to return to Crazy Coqs with a brand new Christmas show. These two world-class performers truly put the class into classical as they take the audience on a journey of musical styles from classical to popular. The genre “classical crossover” perfectly describes their style since everything they present is informed by highly developed musicianship that never fails to entertain.

 

3 December 2024, 21.15
An American Songbook Christmas
£22.50
Sam Furlonger and the acclaimed London band, The Fraser Smith Quintet, are back at the Crazy Coqs! This time, they’re bringing a festive twist to their celebrated performances from the American Songbook. Following their previous sold-out ‘Frankly Sinatra’ shows, this group of exceptional young jazz musicians deliver a performance that’s so much more than a tribute act. Living and breathing swing, they bring the inimitable music from the American Songbook to life for a modern audience, now with a touch of holiday magic.

 

4 December 2024, 19.00
‘JARMAN’ Written and performed by Mark Farrelly, Directed by Sarah-Louise Young
£19.50
Derek Jarman: film-maker, painter, gardener at Prospect Cottage, activist, writer… his influence remains as strong as it was on the day AIDS killed him in 1994. But his story, one of the most extraordinary lives ever lived, has never been told. Until now. This vibrant solo play by Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope / Howerd’s End) is being staged to mark World AIDS Day and brings Derek back into being for a passionate, daring reminder of the courage it takes to truly live while you’re alive. A journey from Dungeness to deepest, brightest Soho and into the heart of one of our most iconoclastic artists.

 

4 December 2024, 21.15
Shirley & Shirley: Geriatric Mums Christmas Special
£20.00
Shirley and Shirley are back and feeling more geriatric than ever. The award-winning double act returns to bring more hilarious home truths about the pleasures and pitfalls of motherhood. The creators of the podcast Motherfunk – whose guests have included Jen Brister, Bryony Gordon and Lady Rizo – are back where they belong: in the limelight and with a lockdown baby each.

 

5 December 2024, 19.00
Kat Pearson
£20.00
The Kat Pearson sound has been described as “New Generation Blues,” a kind of “Night Club Blues” with a touch of cabaret-style story-telling that she delivers with a dynamic and contemporary flavour. During the show, Kat and her band sonically approach issues of Life, Love, Loss and Happiness, opening within the listener musical emotions hiding deeply in the soul!

 

5 December 2024, 21.15
Joe Thompson’s Birthday & Christmas Bash
£25.00
Celebrating both his Christmas Eve birthday AND Christmas itself, Joe Thompson joins us for his legendary Crazy Coqs Christmas/birthday bash along with Sophie Alloway on drums and Robert Rickenberg on electric bass, both legends in their own right.

 

6 December 2024, 19.00
Claire Martin with Rob Barron: A Gershwin Holiday
£30.00
Claire Martin, the UK’s greatest and most awarded jazz singer, returns to Crazy Coqs, accompanied by the much-in-demand, ace piano style of Rob Barron, for an early Christmas Holiday evening with the music of the 20th Century song master George Gershwin.

 

6 December 2024, 21.15
The Cocoa Butter Club Presents: The Black Burlesque Revue
£35.00
The Cocoa Butter Club presents The Black Burlesque Revue. From the internationally renowned cabaret company, where the melanated are celebrated, comes an evening illuminating the legacy of Black burlesque. Expect powerful, provocative performances that decolonise and mesmerise. Hosted by ‘warm and witty’ chanteuse, Sadie Sinner The Songbird, this spirited soiree invites the audience to revel in the rhythm and soak up the stories.

 

7, 21 December 2024, 14.00

9, 17 December 2024, 19.00, 21.15
Holly Dolly Christmas
£30.00
Prepare for a dazzling holiday experience as Kelly O’Brien returns to Crazy Coqs, embodying the glamorous country icon Dolly Parton! After two sold-out years, this magical show is making a grand comeback, and it’s time for you to be part of the festive cheer.

 

22 December 2024, 17.00

7, 10, 14, 18 December 2024, 19.00

22 December 2024, 19.30

10, 18 December 2024, 21.15
Gary Williams: A Swingin’ Christmas!
£30.00
Gary’s Christmas show has become a fixture in our seasonal calendar, and this year promises to be better than ever, with more crooning classics, more sing-alongs and the usual terrible jokes. It’s packed with favourites like The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and Let It Snow – all wrapped up in Gary’s trademark wit.

 

8 December 2024, 19.30
The Crazy Coqs Presents: The West End Sings… Christmas at the Musicals!
£27.50
The Crazy Coqs continues its season of new shows, each with a different musical theme, featuring the cream of the West End and Beyond, presented by Mark Robert Petty and with Musical Direction by Tom Arnold.

 

11 December 2024, 19.00
Eve Ferret’s Festive Fabaret
£25.00
Eve Ferret is back for the Christmas Season at Crazy Coqs and she invites you all to come and pull her cracker and have a babycham or two. Dubbed as the ‘Queen of Cabaret’ (Libby Purves BBC Radio 4), Eve Ferret is regarded as one of the most original performers on the stage today, spinning cabaret on it’s head and back again!

 

11 December 2024, 21.15
Velma’s Christmas
£25.00
Join multi-award-winning Cabaret SUPER star Velma Celli for the campest Christmas special this side of Lapland. From haunting Xmas classics such as Judy Garland’s Have Yourself a Merry f++king Christmas to parodies of your favourite yuletide songs, our Velma cannot wait to jingle her belt, murder and oversing all of your favourite seasonal classics accompanied by the ever fabulous Scott Phillips tinkling those ivory’s in this jam-packed festive Cabaret Christmas romp!.

 

13 December 2024, 19.00
Barb Jungr & Dillie Keane: Two Turtle Doves
£30.00
Join two of international cabaret’s grandest dames, Dillie Keane and Barb Jungr, as they jump giblets first into the festive season. In 2021 these two giants joined forces for the first time ever to perform side-by-side and proved that this is an evening not to be mistletoed.

 

13 December 2024, 21.15
Cabaret with Claus
£27.50
Glad Tidings abound as Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes return with ‘The Christmas Show.’ An evening of shamelessly festive insanity. Classical Nativity intertwines with contemporary insensitivity, all performed with dazzling ingenuity. See what I’m doing here?

 

15 December 2024, 17.00
Sandra Marvin: ‘Sweet Soul Christmas’
£25.00
Currently staring as Angeliqué in the critically acclaimed Broadway and West End hit musical & Juliet, Sandra Marvin returns to Crazy Coqs with her fabulous Christmas Show.

 

15 December 2024, 19.30
La Bouche Manouche Presents: A Gypsy Jazz Christmas!
£27.50
La Bouche Manouche, featuring Irene Serra, presents an evening of much-loved festive tunes and Christmas swing numbers from the Great American Songbook, all in their inimitable Manouche style! For this performance, they’ll showcase tunes from their Christmas album “Swingin’ In A Winter Wonderland.” This includes foot-tapping swing tunes, French chansons, and much-loved Christmas songs that have seen them amass over 5 million views on YouTube. Come and be part of an unmissable night of gypsy jazz festive fun.

 

16 December 2024, 19.00
Ceri Dupree: The Ladies I Love
£27.50
Ceri Dupree is the UK’s leading female impersonator. After a previous successful show alongside his sister Ria Jones in Miss Leading Ladies, Ceri brings his spectacular one-man, 21-woman show to Crazy Coqs.

 

16 December 2024, 21.15
In the Christmas Mood with the Satin Dollz!
£32.50
Swing into the holidays at Crazy Coqs with international pin-up darlings, The Satin Dollz. Enjoy a glamorous evening of holiday big band classics backed by a live five-piece swing band.

 

19 December 2024, 19.00, 21.15
Emma Smith Presents Snowbound
£30.00
A show that promises to charm with festive magic, laughter, swinging jazz and a healthy dash of camp Christmas humour. This evening’s two shows will feature brand new bespoke arrangements of well loved festive tunes such as Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm’, and ‘What are you doing new years eve’ as well as Barbra Streisand’s ‘Snowbound’. Emma will be joined by her trio of jazz stars, Jamie Safir on Piano, Conor Chaplin on Bass and Luke Tomlinson on drums.

 

20-21 December 2024, 19.00
Shaw Shimmers Into Xmas
£30.00
In this inimitable one-man powerhouse show, written especially for Crazy Coqs, join Ian Shaw as he explores the joys, tears and sheer horror of the festive season. Join this mischievous artist for a cracker of a show, after another right old figgy pud of a year. Expect seasonal songs, razor-sharp comedy and some very special guests from the world of music and theatre in these exclusive shows for Crazy Coqs.

 

27 December 2024, 19.00
One Night With Marilyn
£25.00
A laugh out loud, immersive, comedic heartfelt tribute to Hollywood’s most iconic blond Bombshell. The show takes the audience on a journey through the life of the silver screens brightest star. What dose it mean to be a sex symbol, is she looking for a husband and what really happened with the president?

 

27 December 2024, 21.15
Jazz Dynamos: ‘Jazz ‘n’ 80s’ featuring Lucy Randell
£22.50
Jazz Dynamos are a 5 piece band that takes well-known songs from the 1970s and ‘80s and transforms them with a mix of jazz, bossa, and samba! Fronted by world-class vocalist Lucy Randell, their unique set of exuberant, original contemporary jazz arrangements includes hits by, amongst many others, Dolly Parton, Madonna, U2, Police, a-ha, Human League, and Britney Spears.

 

28 December 2024, 19.00, 29 December 2024, 17.00
Gary Williams: Legends
£30.00
‘Legends’ is Gary’s tribute to the biggest stars to have headlined Las Vegas, including Burt Bacharach, Elvis Presley, Frankie Valli, Matt Monro and Nat ‘King’ Cole. Gary portrayed the role of Frank Sinatra in the West End, so the ‘Rat Pack’ are strongly featured with the greatest hits of Frank, Dean and Sammy.

 

29 December 2024, 20.30
Ben Richards: Swing Into ‘25
£30.00
The perfect post-Christmas, pre-New Year, festive show, in the company of West End leading man Ben Richards, plus his special guests from the award-winning musical Moulin Rouge, Charlotte Gooch and Ian Carlye.

 

30 December 2024, 19.00, 21.15
A Very Merry Vinny Coyle & Friends
£35.00
A Very Merry Vinny Coyle & Friends is a classy celebration of the holiday season. A time to see out 2024 in style and enjoy the holiday classics, along with your favourite musical theatre classics. Join us as we celebrate the year gone by, and to party our way into 2025 with your talented West End friends.

 

31 December 2024, 19.00
Judi Jackson: My American Songbook
£40.00
Having started out playing piano and singing in the church choir of her hometown of Roanoke, Virginia, Jackson took early inspiration from the likes of Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, and it’s the long-standing influence of these artists that inform My American Songbook.

 

31 December 2024, 22.00
Le Grand Cabaret: New Year’s Eve Spectacle
£97.50
Welcome to Le Grand Cabaret's New Year’s Eve Spectacle, an enchanting evening of intimate cabaret and world-class entertainment! Step into a night of glamour and allure, where the stage comes alive with the finest cabaret performers that London has to offer. Indulge in a night of exceptional entertainment showcasing Burlesque, dancing, circus and of course the fabulous live music and singing that Crazy Coqs is famed for.

 

4 January 2025, 19.00, 21.15
The Rainer Hersch Orkestra: New Year’s Classics for Laughs
£30.00
The 9-piece Rainer Hersch Orkestra presents a totally different New Year’s Concert – it is really funny. From The Blue Danube Waltz to Auld Lang Syne by way of James Bond and The Beatles, the Orkestra offers a unique combination of virtuoso music and stand-up comedy.