Sun 7 September 2025 3:00pm

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.

Hal Cazalet

Acclaimed British tenor opera singer Hal Cazalet, who has performed at nearly all operatic venues in the world, including the Kennedy Center & Carnegie Hall, trained at the Juilliard School, New York, where he won the Shoshana Foundation Award. Hal has been part of Philip Glass Les Enfants Terribles (USA, European Tours), Roxanna Panufnik The Music Programme (Polish National Opera, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House) and Death and the Powers (Chicago Opera Theatre & Dallas, Boston and Monte Carlo Operas).

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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 has played the piano for many leading stars from London and the USA, including Hal Cazalet, Barbara Cook, Lorna Dallas, Sophie-Louise Dann, Lorna Luft, Karen Mason, Sally Mayes, and Liz Robertson. 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. 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 with the Scottish Pops Orchestra at Glamis Castle, Scotland for the Glamis Prom 2018.

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Play On Words: A musical celebration of P. G. Wodehouse on Broadway

P. G. Wodehouse once had a record-breaking FIVE musicals playing on Broadway at the same time. Today his step-Great Grandson Hal Cazalet, with pianist Simon Beck, transports us back to the Golden Age of stage and screen through stories and song. One of our greatest comic writers, ‘Plum’ Wodehouse said he wrote his stories like "musical comedies, without the music". His musicals between 1915-1935 not only defined the American Musical, but informed the way he crafted his novels and characters. Celebrate the birth of the American musical with theatrical writing highlights of the last 120 years from Gershwin, Kern, Rogers & Hammerstein, Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim and many more. Directed and Devised by Hugh Wooldridge.

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