Hal Cazalet - Play On Words
at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye
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Hal Cazalet
Play on Words
Saturday 31 May 2025, 7pm – St Mary’s Church
PG Wodehouse, best known for creating Jeeves and Wooster, once had a record-breaking five musicals playing simultaneously on Broadway. In Play on Words, devised and directed by Hugh Wooldridge, Wodehouse’s step-great grandson Hal Cazalet and pianist Simon Beck transport us back to the Golden Age of stage and screen through stories, anecdotes and songs.
Wodehouse’s lyrics informed the way he crafted his novels and shaped his inimitable characters, as well as helping define the American musical. Celebrate the birth of the musical, with theatrical writing highlights of the last 120 years from Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and more.
Cazalet is an opera singer who has created leading roles in world premieres for composers across the world. Beck has been music director and pianist for a number of artists, and for the London debut of the Broadway institution Sondheim Unplugged.
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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