by Johnny Fox | Feb 25, 2015 | Reviews
It’s not often you get to spend the night with someone who danced with Fred Astaire, drank with Dean Martin and did who-knows-what with Elvis. It’s been eleven years since Liliane Montevecchi played London. Then she enthralled Pizza on the Park, now it’s Crazy Coqs...
by Johnny Fox | Feb 19, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
Anne Reid’s father was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, reporting from India, Iran and Lebanon. She says she likes journalists, as long as they don’t write anything nasty about her. Spending an evening in her company at Crazy Coqs it would be...
by Laura Cress | Jun 5, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews
After a stint at the Crazy Coqs last August, the Batt is back. No, not Christian Bale in another Christopher Nolan instalment of rubber-clad and gruff-voiced comic book histrionics but Bryan Batt, known to some as Mad Men’s Sal Romano and, judging from his latest...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 6, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews
Edith Giovanna Gassion known as Piaf died when I was ten. There can therefore be few audience members for tribute performances who heard her live other than those whose parents also carried their half-sleeping forms to a late concert. Yet as a performing icon she...
by Johnny Fox | May 11, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
As a gay man whose formative clubbing years were in the glamour-obsessed 80s, drag ought to be right up my (Danny La) Rue, “dear”, but it just isn’t. Never was. Even now I can’t see the irony in tipping up to a Soho bar in colourful wig, eyeliner and...
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