Coward at Christmas: A Cabaret for Noel
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Opened Dec 14, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Coward at Christmas: A Cabaret for Noel is a Holiday treat direct from London. West End favorite Simon Green (part of the original casts of Sondheim's Follies, Passion and Sunday in the Park with George), together with his musical director and archivist David Shrubsole, brings a wonderful evening of Coward sophistication, wit and warmth to 59E59 to celebrate Coward's 109th birthday. This new program blends great Coward classics and some rediscovered comedy gems, unearthed from the British Library, with lesser-known work that is given new life with Shrubsole's arrangements and a fresh Green interpretation.
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Noel Coward was one of the 20th century's most prominent songwriters, actors, directors, and overall bon vivants; the man himself famously wrote of his "talent to amuse." But one frequently overlooked aspect of his personality, which is brought vividly to mind by Simon Green in Coward at Christmas: A Cabaret for Noel at 59E59 Theatres, is philosopher.
Coward's sagacious view of life as rich but ultimately daunting is expressed repeatedly in his songs and conveyed here with off-handed urbanity by Green -- looking suave in a tailored suit, white shirt, and meticulous tie -- as he offers up such ruminative ditties as "I'll See You Again," "This Is a Changing World," and "I Travel Alone."
But [...]