The opening celebration will see Janie Dee and Ian Shaw with emerging artists Josephina Ortiz Lewis; Sophia Priolo; Alfie Friedman; Miriana Pavia; Rebecca Goddard; Helena Neil Smith; and co-author with Lady Gaga, Em The Master, who are performing their Beautiful World Cabarets. Singing the songs of Stephen Sondheim; Kander & Ebb; Adam Guettel and new writing, we give a glimpse of some of their inspirational performances. A peek of the glory to come!

Wayne Sleep OBE, national treasure is a dancer, director, choreographer, and actor who was originally star of the Royal Ballet and more recently appeared on the BBC series The Real Marigold on Tour and ITV’s The Real Full Monty. Wayne’s cabaret reflects on the beautiful world we live in. Expect a mix of career highlights: Original Emcee in Gillian Lynne’s Cabaret, his Dying Swan routine – and a few surprises… Wilkommen Wayne! 

Lorna Dallas is a great vocalist/storyteller who displays an unparalleled joy in relating her diverse and varied life stories through song with great humor and pathos. Accompanied by Simon Beck on piano. Enjoy this musically beautiful world with this Bistro Award winning devilishly delightful diva! 

“Cabaret theater at its finest….a masterclass!” 

★★★★★ Broadway World.

Olivier award winner Cassidy Janson will be singing her favourite songs inspired by the natural world. Star of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, & Juliet and Jerry’s Girls.

EM The Master is an award-winning music artist, classical pianist, scuba diver, freediver and ocean conservationist. EM's Beautiful World will focus on the wonders of the ocean, as she quirkily personifies the creatures she’s had the pleasure of interacting with. The show will celebrate the ocean’s marvels, the challenges it faces, and how we can harness our individual power to give back to this essential ecosystem. Quirky, humorous, powerful, and full of heart… much like the sea. Em has written most of her music and lyrics but sometimes nestles into Sondheim. 

Experience vibrant new musical theatre with Bella Barlow & A.C. Smith, featuring original songs from heartfelt to humorous. With a fabulous live band and West End guests Rhashan Stone, Emma Ralston and Zak Edwards, Barlow and Smith have created brand-new moments exclusively for this performance. 

“Very highly recommended... you’ll feel extremely lucky to have been there!” 

★★★★★ LondonTheatre1

This inspiring and original Beautiful World Cabaret confronts the climate crisis, celebrates individual effort and our beautiful world through song and spoken word. Drawing on the fine works of Stephen Sondheim; Tom Lehrer; Shakespeare; Kander & Ebb; Noel Gay; and Piazzola, making a musically eclectic evening an uplifting experience. Starring Janie Dee, Josephina Ortiz Lewis, Sophia Priolo and Mazaika Duo. 

“Nothing short of masterful” 

★★★★★ Playbill

“A classy, relaxed and generous-spirited hour of song, dance and spoken word from a bona fide West End star turned environmental activist.” 

★★★★ The Times

Litter and Be Gay is Josephina Ortiz Lewis’s cabaret, clowning and drag debut. Jo is here to entertain you, excite you, alarm you, embarrass you and embarrass themself. Her chosen composers are Bernstein, Sondheim, George Benson, the BeeGees and Madison Cunningham.

Come along for a camp hour and an obnoxious amount of characters.

“Brilliant Cabaret Debut. Both hilarious and devastating…Jo’s voice is genuinely remarkable” ★★★★★ A Young(ish) Perspective 

‘Three’s Company’ comprises three close friends: Helena Neil-Smith, Miriana Pavia, and Rebecca Goddard, all brought together by a force stronger than fate. Now, they are delighted to invite everyone to explore the ‘Ebb and Flow’ of the world as they explore a journey down the river. Drawing from the works of Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown, Finn Anderson, Paul Abela and Anais Mitchell. With special guest Marianthe Panas.

Olivia Williams' Beautiful World Cabaret comprises music, poetry, comedy and wisdom about our beautiful world and what we can do to preserve it. Her extraordinary guests are all at the top of their profession from Violinist Lizzie Ball to Conservation Biologist and designer Dr Susanna Paisley, Underwater Pianist Professor Hugh Montgomery and our mystery guest the Bin-Day Terrorist. We have an opera singer, a story-teller and a Sondheim-singin' Bridgerton heart throb. Sing and laugh, listen and learn with some of the most interesting people you will ever meet.

In a world once symbiotic, we've become divided and afraid. Alfie Friedman explores the personal and planetary through original songs and classics by Stephen Sondheim, Rebecca Sugar, Marvin Hamlisch, Declan O’Rourke, Duncan Sheik, and more! Featuring a live band.

Sister Mary was a foundling, discovered on the steps of St Peter’s of the Sister’s of the Third Removed, in the heart of London’s West End. It is rumoured she is the secret love child of West End Musical Theatre Star, Elaine Paige. Sister Mary loves showtunes and making homemade flapjack. Accompanied on the organ by her long-suffering sidekick Brother Matthew. Join Sister Mary as she battles the blues with her singing and her unique style of comedy. No pulpit. No psalms. No prayers. She’s not that kind of nun. 

“Relentlessly funny” London’s Evening Standard

“Pure comedy Gold” Edinburgh Three Weeks

“Pick of the Day” New York Times 

Multi award-winning (including BBC jazz awards Best Vocalist) jazz singer, broadcaster, record producer and pianist, Ian Shaw has devised a show exclusively for this special series. Songs of Love and Protection is a salve, a musical tale of humanity, with all its faces - via the songs of Rodgers and Hart, Bowie, Joni, Leonard Cohen, Dylan and some brand-new Shaw pithy originals. Janie Dee will join him to sing his latest creation “Outlove”.

His latest Album is out November 7th: Stephensong. Ian Shaw Sings Stephen Sondheim. (Silent Wish Records)

Passionate, virtuosic Violin Accordion and vocal duo  Sarah Harrison and Igor Outkine celebrate the beauty of our world! Full of Gypsy fire, tango passion, operatic melodrama and classical virtuosity. The duo have picked music and songs inspired by the sounds and sights of nature. Prepare to feel the excitement and power of Vivaldi’s Summer Storm, marvel at violin birdsong in The Lark and let Igor’s lovely Neapolitan and Latin songs transport you to the world’s most beautiful places. Most recently spotted on the Michael McIntyre show  and just returning from performing at Glastonbury! 

“Hugely entertaining, the duo frequently brought the house down” 

★★★★ The Scotsman

A humorous and heart-rending choice of songs and stories that lifts your soul and opens up Laura’s Beautiful World to amuse and inspire. Her choice of composers ranges from Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman and Andrew Lloyd Webber to Joni Mitchell. Her version of Both Sides Now is a triumph! Laura Pitt-Pulford is an Olivier nominated highly acclaimed actress recently seen in the West End’s Standing at the Sky's Edge, Aspects of Love and Falsettos.  

★★★★ Musical Theatre Review

Dame Maureen Lipman will be bringing together poetry, jazz, monologues and madness. Trust me it will be unusual. If not cutting edge, it will certainly be cutting hedge! Dame Maureen Lipman will be joined by Jacqui Dankworth, Thelma Ruby, Jonathan Williams, Ava Rosenthal, Jeremy Robson, Art Themen, Pauline Prior-Pitt and Charlie Woods. Dame Maureen Lipman is an English actress, comedian, and writer renowned for her extensive work in theatre, film, and television. She is currently playing “Evelyn Plummer’ in Coronation Street for ITV.