The 4th London Cabaret Awards Ceremony: London, UK

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The 4th London Cabaret Awards Ceremony

Café de Paris, London, U.K., September 3,2015

Reviewed by Fiona Coffey for Cabaret Scenes

London-Cabaret-Awards-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212The 4th Annual London Cabaret Awards Ceremony was an opportunity to celebrate the abundance of talent that fuels the capital’s hugely dynamic and diverse cabaret scene. A concerted effort by this year’s organizers to create a bold and inclusive nominations list resulted in winners including The Crazy Coqs, Holestar, Alison Jiear and Lilly Snatchdragon, defying any attempt to define or limit who or what should represent London cabaret to the wider world.

And the evening itself, organized by Paul L. Martin and Excess All Areas, proved that artistic excellence is the great unifier. Hosted by Myra Dubois in glittering form, it featured a dazzling array of acts, with a standout performance from Bettsie Bon Bon. Her electrifying routine threatened to transform a feel-good celebration into a bacchanalian orgy, silencing overheard table mutterings about the “point” of burlesque.

Awards ceremonies, by definition, can disappoint as well as uplift; not all roars of approval for particular nominees were reflected by the judges’ winning choices. But any disappointments were borne with grace and good humor. For, above all, this event helped London’s cabaret community see that it had life and soul, and that this had been one hell of a party.

 

 

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Fiona Coffey

Fiona Coffey joins our review team as a cabaret enthusiast and jazz singer, just as she makes her sell-out debut on the London cabaret scene with a self-devised tribute to her alter-ego Mrs. Robinson. She has hosted jazz evenings and performed at a number of venues including The Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry, and 606 Club. In her day job she is a leadership development coach, travelling around the globe, working with a hugely diverse population of executives, as they grapple with the challenges of leadership and organizational change. Having recently expended most of her writing energies on her doctoral thesis, she welcomes the opportunity to entertain and inform a different audience through Cabaret Scenes.