St. James Studio: Sept - Oct 2014

CAB ARE T COM E DY MU S I C T HEATRE

DOORS OPEN Mon - Sat 7.15pm* Sun 6.30pm* [show starts 8pm]

[show starts 7pm]

*Unless otherwise stated

SEPT - OCT 2014 0 8 4 4 2 6 4 2 1 4 0 | st j a m e st h e a t re.co. u k

SEPT

9th to 13th

THIS IS YOUR TRIAL Tuesday 9 September postponed to Monday 29 £12.50 / £15 September This brand new improvised show comes to the Studio following a successful run at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Top comedians are the lawyers, prosecuting and defending charges set against YOU! In this mock trial everyone is GUILTY until proven INNOCENT! The presiding Judge of this Court is Tim Fitzhigham assisted by his Court Clerk.

Together they will ask you, the jury, to decide the verdict on each case.

HHHHHHHHHH The Mirror (10 Stars!)

JULIA BIEL Wednesday 10 September £15 / £17.50 Award-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Julia Biel is blazing a trail on the British music scene blending vocals reminiscent of the greats of jazz’s golden age with a poetic yet conversational lyrical style, a uniquely sharp perspective on contemporary life and love, and accessible chorus led songwriting presented in a widescreen sound you can lose yourself in.

“Soul-baring songs of great beauty from the best British vocalist to emerge in an age…” The Independent

MATT FORDE’S SPORTS PARTY Thursday 11 September £12.50 /£15 Sports-mad comedian and talkSPORT presenter Matt Forde hosts a brand new comedy chat show featuring some of the biggest professional names in sport as well celebrity fans and officials.

“Certain to ruffle the feathers of the right-on brigade” The Guardian

AN AUDIENCE WITH LENNY BEIGE Friday 12 September £20 / £25 Lenny Beige returns after two sell-out shows at the St. James Studio. This time he is flying by the seat of his slacks as he invites the audience to ask questions in this special one off improvised ‘Audience With’ show. Probe the wigged legend about his career, his private life and his style choices. Malcolm Edmonstone joins Beige at the piano.

ACTING THROUGH SONG MASTERCLASS Saturday 13 September £65 / £15 observer 10.30am - 4pm The Acting Network brings you an intensive one day workshop focusing on finding the truth in a song for theatre. Participants will work through a piece of their choice in a technical manner with an emphasis on text analysis and character and an understanding of how these fit musically.

Hadley Fraser is one of the country’s top theatre actors. His varied CV includes musicals in the West End and on Broadway, including 25th anniversary concerts of Les Mis and Phantom. He has most recently been seen as Aufidius in the Donmar Theatre production of Coriolanus.

STUART MATTHEW PRICE: MELODIES IN MOTION Saturday 13 September £18 / £20 For his final UK performance this year, award-winning singer/composer Stuart Matthew Price returns to the St. James Studio with a unique one night event celebrating his compositional work. Featuring special guests Lauren Samuels and Charlotte Wakefield.

“Stuart Matthew Price is one of the best singers around at the moment” Mark Shenton, The Stage

“The St. James Studio is absolutely my favourite cabaret venue in London” Mark Shenton

SEPT

14th to 17th

DAVID BEDELLA AND FRIENDS: PRIMETIME! Sunday 14 September £20 / £25 Continuing his monthly Sunday night residency, Olivier Award winner David Bedella hosts an evening of laughter, song, gossip and chat, featuring a live band and his many celebrity friends from the worlds of film, television, Broadway and the West End. “Ferociously charming, witty, and possessing that mellifluous voice, Bedella weaves a magic on the stage that allows his guests to shine…” Paul Vale, Musical Theatre Review

LUNCHTIME THEATRE COMEDY OF ERRORS Monday 15 – Friday 19 September £8 / £10 on the door 1pm only Mon - Tues 12pm & 1pm Wed - Fri ROLL UP!! ROLL UP!! Butterfly productions return with The Comedy Of Errors where twins run riot at The Ephesus Fair. Expect nonstop blunders in Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of mistaken identity, wrongful beatings and misjudged seductions.

“A sly masterstroke……plenty of high spirits” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

To get exclusive news on the latest shows coming to St. James Studio, follow us on twitter & like us on facebook... /stjstudio

/st_jamesstudio

FENTON GRAY - IT’S ONLY A WAY I’VE GOT Monday 15 September £20 / £25 with CHARLES MILLER at the piano and guests EMMA ODELL & ROBERT METSON

This hilarious and eclectic cabaret programme will feature songs by Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Gilbert & Sullivan, Charles Miller and many more, culminating in an Old Time Music Hall selection featuring songs made famous by Fenton’s Great Grandfather, the music hall comedian Dan Crawley (1872-1912).

MARK JENNETT – ALBUM LAUNCH Tuesday 16 September £12.50 / £15 “Soulful and exuberant” (Time Out) jazz vocalist Mark Jennett celebrates the release of his second album, Everybody Says Don’t (Jazzizit Records). 20th century standards rub shoulders with 60s pop favourites in an evening of tuneful, highspirited music-making.

“Everybody Says Don’t is a welcome release from a male singer who thankfully sideswipes the deluge of post Sinatra crooners yet homage to the great swinging vocal tradition is ever present.” Ian Shaw

ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE Wednesday 17 September £12.50 / £15 Composer Isobel Waller-Bridge performs music from her film scores and her most recent album, Saratoga Station.

With her ensemble of live strings, piano and electronics, and likened to the music of Johannes Johannson, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Julia Holter and Max Richter, Isobel’s growing reputation joins her to the evolving new musical zone where post-classical, electronic, ambient and song meet.

“Isobel Waller-Bridge’s gorgeous score sighs and twinkles” The Guardian

“Inspired” Evening Standard “Swelling music by Isobel Waller-Bridge” New York Times

SEPT

18th to 24th

THE PAUL ZERDIN SHOW Thursday 18 – Friday 19 September £19.50 / £22.50 The Master Ventriloquist returns with a brand new show featuring your favourite sponge characters, stand up and some wicked audience participation. They might be cute little puppets but leave the kids at home..!

“Zerdin has a sense of comic timing that other comedians should take note of...When you are not laughing you are simply in awe.”

Three Weeks

SOPHISTICATED LADIES: Tina May & Lee Gibson Saturday 20 September £20 / £25 Sophisticated Ladies is a collection of tunes from the heyday of the great female vocalists, arranged and interpreted by two of the most respected jazz performers of today.

“Great show” Sheila Tracy, BBC radio presenter

SUNDAY IN THE APARTMENT Sunday 21 September £25 | 2pm Part cabaret, part chat show… totally entertaining! Join hosts Nick Hardcastle and Dan Fletcher as they introduce some of Australia’s most talented established and emerging artists, for an intimate afternoon’s entertainment with a twist.

INVADE MY PRIVACY Sunday 21 September £17.50 / £20 Fresh from their sell out debut at Crazy Coqs Lucy Dixon and Howard Samuels are delighted to bring Invade my Privacy, a cabaret devoted to the genius that was, and is, Fran Landesman, to the St. James Studio.

“Sexy, sleazy, sizzling, sorrowful and fabulous” Musical Theatre Review July 2014

CITY STORIES Monday 22 – Tuesday 23 September £15 / £17.50 Back in the St. James Studio, and featuring two brand new stories and new original music, City Stories is a unique type of Cabaret Drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories and a love letter to London. Written and directed by award winning playwright James Phillips and with original music composed by singer-songwriter Rosabella Gregory, City Stories is a magical journey through a magical city.

“Rosabella Gregory’s lyrics seem almost to give London itself a voice.” One Stop Arts

THE POLITICAL PARTY with Matt Forde Wednesday 24 September £12.50/£15 Matt Forde (as seen on Have I Got News For You, Russell Howard’s Good News & This Week) hosts a comedy night combining topical stand-up and a big interview with a political heavyweight. A celebration of politics with “a first-class comic” (The Guardian).

Previous guests have included Jack Straw, George Galloway, Nigel Farage, Matthew Parris and Charles Clarke, to name but a few.

Direct from a sell out run in Edinburgh

KINGMAKER

Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 September £17.50 / £20 Thurs - Sat 8pm, Sat 3pm A bumbling, charismatic London Mayor challenges his enemies to become prime minister. But will his comic and colourful past destroy him? Set in a stuffy office in the House of Commons in a time quite close to the present, Kingmaker takes a sly satirical look at the ruthless game of politics and reveals a man behind a myth and a myth behind a man.

A new satire by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky. Directed by Hannah Eidinow. Starring Alan Cox as Max Newman.

HHHH “Clever observations combine with cutting one-liners to hugely entertaining effect” Three Weeks

HHHH

The List

SEPT - OCT

28th to 13th

BEFORE AFTER: A NEW MUSICAL Sunday 28 September £12.50/£15 United Theatrical, with the support of the Arts Council of England, present a unique opportunity to attend the first workshop presentation of BEFORE AFTER, a new musical with music & lyrics by Stuart Matthew Price and book & add. lyrics by Timothy Knapman. The cast features Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen.

LUNCHTIME THEATRE HENRY IV Part 1 Monday 29 September - Friday 3 October £8 / £10 on the door 1pm Henry Bolingbroke faces his greatest leadership challenge after his recent hostile takeover. Crisis management is needed. This timeless struggle for power vividly plays out as a battle of the boardroom in this bold, fresh adaptation of Shakespeare’s favourite history play.

HHHH Remotegoat “Bold, ambitious, and terrific.” Reviewing Shakespeare “A delightfully unusual take on one of Shakespeare’s very best plays” The Londonist

HEART STRINGS Tuesday 30 September £25 / £30 Considered “the short story experts” by the Sunday Times, each WordTheatre gathers London’s finest actors to bring great literature to life. Heart Strings, the first in a three part series, features Ian Hart, Natascha McElhone, Ben Miller and Rhashan Stone reading brilliant contemporary short stories accompanied by virtuoso violinist Lizzie Ball.

FRANCES RUFFELLE - PARIS ORIGINAL Wednesday 1 - Friday 3 October £25 / £30 Frances Ruffelle’s last solo show in New York was named one of Playbill’s Unforgettable Theatre Experiences of 2013. Now the Tony Award winning actress will perform her critically acclaimed, sell out solo show Paris Original.

“Frances Ruffelle is a real original in any language and any city, but don’t miss her adopt Paris as home.” Mark Shenton

HEADS SOUTH ALBUM LAUNCH Saturday 4 October | £15 / £17.50 Top Latin Jazz Salsa band Heads South play an exhilarating repertoire of original and classic tunes featuring the UK’s top jazz trumpeter and leading Cuban percussionist in a special night to launch their brand new album.

“Impeccable musicianship” The Times

DAVID BEDELLA AND FRIENDS: PRIMETIME! Sunday 5 October | £20 / £25 Continuing his monthly Sunday night residency, Olivier Award winner David Bedella hosts an evening of laughter, song, gossip and chat, featuring a live band and his many celebrity friends from the worlds of film, television, Broadway and the West End. “Ferociously charming…Bedella weaves a magic on the stage that allows his guests to shine…” Paul Vale, Musical Theatre Review

AL MURRAY THE PUB LANDLORD Monday 13 October | £12.50 Twenty years ago Britain’s favourite publican Al Murray, The Pub Landlord, embarked on his one man mission as the King Cnut of Common Sense, holding back a tide of bottled beer and nanny state nonsense.

To celebrate this milestone join this icon on his new tour with his brand new show One Man, One Guvnor.

“Murray’s interaction with the crowd remains one of the wonders of the comedy world” The Times

OCT

6th to 18th

MARRY ME A LITTLE

By Stephen Sondheim

Monday 6 - Saturday 11 October £18.50 / £22.50 Mon - Sat 8pm Fri - Sat 3pm Following a critically acclaimed sell-out run earlier in the year, Marry Me a Little returns to the St. James Studio. The show, not seen in London for 17 years, uses material by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical Stephen Sondheim to tell a charming and bittersweet tale of love, loneliness and heartbreak.

In a new interpretation, the show finds two ex-lovers on separate Saturday nights alone in the flat they once shared. Remembering the highs and lows of their relationship, each are visited by memories of the other as they contemplate what made them fall in love, stay in love and ultimately fall out of love. ★★★★★ Remotegoat ★★★★ WOS ★★★★ TheatreGhost ★★★★ JonathanBaz ★★★★ The Upcoming ★★★★ GizzleReview ★★★★ West End Wilma ★★★★ Everything Theatre ★★★★ West End Frame Directed by Hannah Chissick Musically Directed by David Randall Starring Simon Bailey and Laura Pitt-Pulford

OUTINGS

By Matthew Baldwin and Thomas Hescott Directed by David Grindley

Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 October £20 / £30 The world’s first show based on coming-out stories transfers direct from a hit Edinburgh Fringe season for two nights only. This powerful, funny and confessional collation of over 20 true stories is performed by an acclaimed cast of four comics, joined each night by a guest star to be announced via www.OutingsTheShow.com “Punchy, lucid and moving… Highly recommended.” Guardian “An impressive production… Extraordinary.” Observer

MATT FORDE’S SPORTS PARTY Thursday 16 October £12.50 / £15 Sports-mad comedian and talkSPORT presenter Matt Forde hosts a brand new comedy chat show featuring some of the biggest professional names in sport as well celebrity fans and officials.

SINGERS INC. Friday 17 October £18 / £22 Singers Inc. present an evening of new interpretations of classic songs, performed in a warm acoustic style by Kele Le Roc, Zoe Birkett, Austin Drage and Amy Diamond.

This show will launch their second album, Singers Inc. Vol. 2.

FUNNY WOMEN IMPROV WORKSHOP Saturday 18 October £65 10.30am Do you ever wish you could improvise your way out of tricky situations? Then the Funny Women Players improvisation workshops are for you! This introductory session will give you some insight into how the best improvisers work together. Unmissable!

THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN & ARTIE SHAW Saturday 18 October £17.50 / £20 Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw were ground breaking clarinet playing American band leaders, fronting the most popular music groups in the 1930’s. Mark Crooks on clarinet, makes a welcome return to St. James with his Swing band.

An evening of very happy toe-tapping music.

“Mark Crooks is a star on clarinet” Jazz UK The first in the Wonderful Music of The Jazz Greats series at St. James Studio

OCT

20th to 28th

3 DIVAS AND A PIANO Monday 20 October £17.50 / £20 Julez Hamilton, Nikki Parker and Jordan Saflor lead ordinary unglamorous lives most of the time… Dress them up and give them lights, microphones, cocktails and a piano with a hot pianist and what happens? They turn into proper divas – and divas with bags of talent too!

FUNNY WOMEN PLAYERS Tuesday 21 October £25 / £30 Journey with the Funny Women Players, a fast paced, all women improv on the path to enlightenment. Based on suggestions from the audience they will turn your stories into theatre, right before your very eyes.

Celebrating 25 years of international women’s rights charity Womankind Worldwide.

FINGERSNAP Wednesday 22 - Thursday 23 October £20 / £25 After three sell out shows, London duo Fingersnap return to their “favourite venue” to celebrate a successful 2014, with their latest classic, Blackbirds, “the most gorgeous song I’ve ever heard”, Michael Ball. The popular duo generates a joyous, haunting ambience with original material, astute covers and the Great American Songbook. Don’t Miss.

“Stunning” Richard Madeley “Smoldering, mesmerising & magical” Evening Standard

JAMES HASLAM: On Shpilkes!

Saturday 25 October £20 / £25 Raconteur & cabaret queen James Haslam returns to the St. James Studio to celebrate 10 years of glitz and tears performing sold out shows at many of London’s hotest cabaret venues. In true cabaret style, Haslam’s wit and charm create a relaxed atmosphere as he delivers more personal stories with an eclectic mix of song.

Musical direction and arrangement by Richard Bates & musicians

MY STORY IN YOU - THE MUSIC OF OLIVER PAYNE Sunday 26 October £18 / £20 Oliver Payne is an up and coming composer with depth and virtuosity far beyond his years. Having orchestrated and composed works for other recognized composers it is time for him to venture out on his own. The performance of “My Story in You “ at the St. James Studio marks Oliver’s first solo production. Starring West End performers including Carole Stenett, Laura Pitt-Pulford and Matthew Barrow.

CITY STORIES Monday 27- Tuesday 28 October £15 / £17.50 Back in the St. James Studio, and featuring two brand new stories and new original music, City Stories is a unique type of Cabaret Drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories and a love letter to London.

Written and directed by award winning playwright James Phillips and with original music composed by singer-songwriter Rosabella Gregory, City Stories is a magical journey through a magical city.

“Rosabella Gregory’s lyrics seem almost to give London itself a voice.. Raw, informal and quietly profound.. This surprising evening of London stories for our times, linked through musical interludes, addresses the big questions of life.” One Stop Arts

OCT

29th to 31st

THE POLITICAL PARTY with Matt Forde and Michael Portillo Wednesday 29 October £12.50 / £15 Matt Forde (as seen on Have I Got News For You, Russell Howard’s Good News & This Week) hosts a comedy night combining topical stand-up and a big interview with a political heavyweight. A celebration of politics with “a first-class comic” (The Guardian).

Previous guests have included Jack Straw, George Galloway, Nigel Farage, Matthew Parris and Charles Clarke to name but a few.

PETER STRAKER: BLACK MAGIC Thursday 30 October | £20 / £25

SPECIAL

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, this award winning star of stage and screen charms and seduces you in this fabulous new show…just in time for Halloween.

Straker and this great band will tease and rock you with an eclectic mix of songs by The Rolling Stones, Queen, Randy Newman and from his own albums. An evening of fast, fun, furious and indefinable entertainment!

HHHHH “Straker’s voice, one of the most extraordinary in British musical theatre, has never sounded better or stronger.”

WhatsOnStage

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925): Screening with Live Music

SPECIAL

Friday 31 October £15 / £17.50 | 6.15pm & 8.45pm A special Halloween screening of the original Phantom Of The Opera from 1925, accompanied by a live soundtrack.

Unsilent Movies (Ric Elsworth – Percussion & Andrew Shirtliff – Piano) is a project dedicated to giving classic Silent Movies a uniquely modern soundtrack played live as the film is screened.

“Unsilent Movies first performance with us was an evening to treasure, we can’t wait for them to come back!”

The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford

Coming Soon...

AN EVENING WITH PETER JOBACK Monday 3 - Wednesday 5 November £40 / £75 From the West End via Broadway to sold-out arenas: the multi-platinum Swedish superstar Peter Jöback has built an impressive career.

“An Evening With Peter Jöback” sees this amazing singer perform with his trio in an exclusive and intimate concert, performing his favourite songs from classic shows.

Having recently ended a stint as the Phantom on Broadway, Peter is one of the few actors to play the prestigious title role in both the West End and on Broadway. “[Jöback’s] new show is completely dazzling, spanning his entire career. There are few artists who can manage this kind of intimacy with his audience..” Aftonbladet (Swedish Daily Paper)

SINGULAR SENSATIONS Up close and personal with the stars of musical theatre Sunday 9 November £22.50 / £25 | 3pm Sophie-Louise Dann is one of the most versatile musical theatre performers that the UK has ever produced. As she prepares to give her Barbara Castle in the new musical version of Made in Dagenham you can be sure that another brilliant transformation will be added to her ever growing gallery of characters.

THE 5th LONDON FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN MUSIC Monday 10 - Friday 14 November Mon - Fri 8pm, Wed 1pm £10 / £15 / £18 This Festival explores and celebrates the work of major American composers, from the popular minimalist John Adams, the 19th Century lady killer Gottschalk, and two Pulitzer Prize winners. With outstanding performers: Lontano who with the charismatic Odaline de la Martinez have travelled the world; the Brazilian piano virtuosa Clelia Iruzun; and the American Trio Appasionata.

H OW TO F I N D U S

12

Palace

Street,

London

SW1E

5JA

BY TUBE The nearest tube is Victoria. We are situated within a 5 minute walk of the station.

NATIONAL RAIL Victoria Station is less than 5 minutes walk from the theatre.

PARKING Free parking after 6.30pm is available in nearby streets.

BY BUS Routes 16, 38, 52, 73, 42, 148 all pass by near the theatre.

0844 264 2140

|

stjamestheatre.co.uk