By Cindy Hacker 020 7629 2998 cindy@parrotprods.co.uk
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PIZZA ON THE PARK, 11-13 Knightsbridge, Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7LY
1Barry J Mishon’s Musical Ladies of the Stage — Spring 2004 one of the greatest interpreters in the world of cabaret
JULIE WILSON celebrates her 80th birthday with a special two-week engagement at Pizza on the Park from Tuesday 4 to Sunday 16 May. Press night is Tuesday May 4 at 9.15pm.
Julie Wilson has received several Back Stage Bistro Awards, has twice won the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs Award as Female Vocalist of the Year and also holds a MAC Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1995 she was named USO Woman of the Year and in 1996 received the Town Hall Federation Friend of the Arts Award. Voted Miss Nebraska when only 17, Julie Wilson was kept out of the Miss America contest when her mother discovered she'd lied about her age. A year later, she joined the chorus of a touring edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, which took her to New York, before moving to a solo show in a Miami nightclub. She won a two-week engagement at Hollywood’s Mocambo nightclub, which led to a part as Lois Lane in Kiss Me Kate, which she later recreated on the West End stage, where she later appeared in Bet Your Life and replaced Mary Martin in South Pacific. Julie Wilson took over roles on Broadway in The Pyjama Game and Kismet and played in various regional productions, performing in London and the USA before taking time off to look after her children. In 1984 she returned in triumph, performing Cole Porter songs at Michael's Pub. She later earned a Tony Award nomination for Legs Diamond and Hannah ...1939, recorded several albums as well as performing in the prestigious Russian Tea Rooms, Michael’s Pub and the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, New York. “A blazing tour-de-force” The New York
Time- ”The quintessential cabaret singer” New York Post. “The reigning queen of cabaret” Back Stage.
"Cabaret was created just for Julie Wilson." Wrote Maximillien de
Lafayette from the Monthly Herald.
1Larry’s Music Room, Pizza on the Park, 11 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7LY.Reservations 020 7235 5273 (from 10am to 6pm) www.pizzaonthepark.co.uk Tue & Wed £18/20 Thurs & Sun £20/22 Fri & Sat £23/25, (lower prices for advance booking). Doors open 7.30pm – Two sets at 9.15pm and 10.45pm. Resident pianist & host
SIMON BECKER. Box Office 020 7235 5273 (lower price for advance bookings) Programme Subject to Change.
music@pizzaonthepark.co.uk
1Musical Ladies of the Stage, Producer: Barry J Mishon 01273 606655
barryjmishon@hotmail.com Press Contact: Cindy Hacker 020 7629 2998
cindy@parrotprods.co.uk
1Tues
1, Jazz/Poetry £10/12
Http://www.franlandesmanm
The songs of FRAN LANDESMAN and SIMON WALLACE with jazz singer SARAH MOULE
1The SIMON WALLACE Trio with Simon Wallace (piano). The jazz world’s answer to Dorothy Park, New York born lyricist FranLandesman’s acid wit and penetrating insights first emerged in the 1950s collaborations with composer Tommy Wolf: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most and The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men soon became standards. Fran has been writing songs with television, film and theatre composer Simon Wallace and Sarah Moule is one of this country's finest jazz singers, with a debut CD of songs by Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace It's A Nice Thought out on www.linnrecords.com
1Wed 3 to Sun 6, Jazz, Wed & Sunday, £14/16 Thurs, Fri & Sat £16/18: One of this country’s most popular jazz and blues singers, with performances on the London and Broadway stage in Cowardy Custard, Bubbling Brown Sugar, The Wiz, Let’s Do It and as an actress in Ken Russell’s Gustav Mahler and the National Theatre’s Map of the World.
ELAINE DELMAR. Releases on Ronnie Scott’s Jazz House label: ‘S Wonderful (JHRT 407) and But Beautiful (JHCD067).
1Mon 7, Jazz, £10/12:
PETER BRIGHTMAN and Friends
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