{"id":1708,"date":"2019-10-25T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:59:49","slug":"come-to-the-cabaret-aux-crazy-coqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/2019\/10\/come-to-the-cabaret-aux-crazy-coqs.html","title":{"rendered":"Come to the cabaret aux Crazy Coqs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anita Gillette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/paullevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image001.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-418 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" title=\"image001-jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/paullevy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image001.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>photograph: Brasserie Z\u00e9del<\/p>\n<p>How often do we go to cabaret or a jazz club in London? In truth, not often, as the schlepp is the same as going to the theatre or opera. But I\u2019ve been twice in the last year, to catch an autobiographical musical gig by the veteran movie, tv and stage star, Anita Gillette. The first occasion was her Irving Berlin tribute, and the second was called \u201cAfter All\u201d \u2013 of which there were two performances this past week. The venue is a great attraction, for it is part of the Corbin\/King empire, a perfect-sized room called Les Crazy Coqs in their Z\u00e9del Brasserie on Sherwood Street.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve come to these performances (and one other in New York, with a pair of singers) to support, cherish and cheer the piano playing and singing of one of our best family friends, Paul Greenwood. A duet with the fizzy, personable and tuneful Ms Gillette revealed that Paul has a singing register of several pleasant, firm octaves. Add this to his astonishing sight-reading abilities, plus the talent to transpose&nbsp;<em>ad hoc<\/em>, and I can see him doing gigs with operatic singers in much bigger places.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, though, was a delight, with Ms Gillette at her best singing pieces from&nbsp;<em>Showboat<\/em>. Fish do \u201cgotta swim, and birds gotta fly,\u201d and maybe the producers ought to add a solo moment for Greenwood, as \u201cOld Man River\u201d is well within his range.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great night out in London, and I\u2019ve spotted a couple of more shows I\u2019d like to see at Les Crazy Coqs, including Kit &amp; McConnel and Dazzling Divas on 13 November.<\/p>\n<p>To this I have to add that my wife daughters, son-in-law and I had a stunningly good dinner after the show at Z\u00e9del Brasserie \u2013 including smoked herrings, sp\u00e9ciale de Claire oysters, roast venison, and the andouillette (which is fresh on Tuesdays, and described on the menu with all honesty as \u201ctripe sausage\u201d); and I had the weekly offering of veal kidneys, so perfectly cooked that I could eat them again every Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Gillette photograph: Brasserie Z\u00e9del How often do we go to cabaret or a jazz club in London? In truth, not often, as the schlepp is the same as going to the theatre or opera. But I\u2019ve been twice in the last year, to catch an autobiographical musical gig by the veteran movie, tv and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbv6zV-ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/plainenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}