Alice Lascelles is an award =winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert. . She writes about drinks for FT Weekend and also has a regular column in FT How to Spend It covering wine, spirits and bar culture. Her first book, Ten Cocktails: The Art of Convivial Drinking was published in 2015. In 2016 she was awarded Spitirs Communicator of the Year at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
Tickets available in Advance. Please send a cheque and SAE payable to the Highgate Society to 10A South Grove N6 6BS OR call into 10A Saturday mornings.
valerie cutko
cabaret at tea time
Where is home? And what does it mean to return there?
West End and Broadway actress and longtime host of Cabaret In The House Valerie Cutko returns from a season at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre where she led the cast of Alan Bennett’s People in its Scottish premiere. She and Musical Director Simon Beck present an evocative, witty, sophisticated set of songs on the theme of homecoming from composers from Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer to Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Bucchino.
Valerie’s West End roles include Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, Marlene Dietrich in Piaf, Madame Egorova in Beautiful and Damned (the story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, directed by Craig Revell Horwood) and The Queen ofTransylvania in My Fair Lady. She played Madame Giry in The Phantom of the Opera, Mrs Mullin in Carousel and Ninotchka – the role played by Greta Garbo in Ernst Lubitch’s 1939 film Ninotchka. In 2015 she played Rafaella in Grand Hotel at the Southwark Playhouse, the role she took over in Tommy Tune’s original Broadway production. Valerie has performed in cabaret at Birdland in New York and at London venues including the St James Studio, Jermyn Street Theatre, Soho Revue Bar, The Old Vic Theatre Bar, Freud’s in Covent Garden, Wimbledon Theatre Studio and Torch in King’s Cross.
Simon Beck
Alongside being a music supervisor/director in West End and touring theatre, Simon has enjoyed a varied concert and cabaret career conducting/playing piano for such stars as Christina Bianco, Stephanie J Block, Susan Boyle, Barbara Cook, Cynthia Erivo, Maria Friedman, Haydyn Gwynne, Andrew Lippa, Lorna Luft, Millicent Martin, Lee Mead, and Monty Python, as well as concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Full details at simonbeckmusician.com
Support: Kitty Whitelaw
Kitty is a Jazz singer and one half of the music duo Sealionwoman, who have played The Vaults, Union Chapel, Cafe Oto, Ikletik and numerous other London Venues. Her theatre credit include Dr Warner in Metropolis, Assistant Choreographer for The Frogs, Delivery Kid/Various Ensemble in Wonderful Town, Jenna in Jagged Edge, Selkie in Selkie. Winner “Festive Spirit Award” for Vault Festival 2016.
Twitter: @KittyWhitelaw
Cabaret Tea A – £28.50
Glass of Prosecco
Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll
Free-range egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll
Rich chocolate brownie square
Cabaret Tea B – £25.50
Luscombe Wild Bubbly Elderflower Presse
Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll
Free-egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll
Rich chocolate brownie square
Times:
3.30 – doors open and tea served
4.30 – show starts
5 – interval
5.20 – second half starts
6.15 – end
Time: 15:30
Venue: Lauderdale House
If you just want to join us for Cabaret then you can purchase a full price ticket for £16.00 / £14.00 concession for students, unwaged & Equity members only.
Time: 16:30
Venue: Lauderdale House
Price band | A | B |
Standard | £28.50 | £25.50 |
Concession | £16.00 | £14.00 |
Child |
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Box office: 02083488716
Email: enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk
Website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk
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Come and sing Carols with Highgate School Band in Pond Square and refreshments afterwards at 10A South Grove -Highgate Society.
Free entry – complimentary tea and cake – non members welcome
This is the third in what is now becoming an annual Highgate Society event – a January afternoon
travel talk and tea. Our first, in 2016, featured visits to North America by Catherine Budgett Meakin
and to the Andes by Richard Webber. Last year it was the turn of Michael Hammerson who dusted
off his slides and diary account from 1966 to treat us to a wonderful account of his experiences as a
young man visiting the battlefields of the American Civil War.
This year our focus shifts to Asia where we will hear travellers’ accounts of visits to three countries in
the Caucasus and Central Asia that receive very few foreign visitors.
The presenters will whet your appetite for a visit with images of magnificent mountain scenery as
well as heritage site of world-wide significance. This will be presented within a broader discussion of
sustainable tourism, the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union, geo-political uncertainty and
social acceptance and resistance to the spread of Western values.
Do you need a guide to visit these countries? Or should you join a group? How safe will you be? And
how easy is it to engage in meaningful discussion with the views of local people? Come and hear.
Programme
3.15 1: Kyrgistan: Guyonne James
3.40 2: Armenia: Richard Webber
4.05 Questions, answers and discussion in response to talks 1 and 2
4.20 Tea
4.35 3: Iran: Betty Pires + team (the precise members of which are to be confirmed)
5.00 Questions, answers and discussion on practicalities of a central Asia visit
Every one is welcome to come and meet members and non-members of the Highgate Society.
‘Highgate as a Conservation area’ exhibition
Come and learn about the Highgate Society and the CA.
Richard Webber illustrates the Lifestyles of the super-rich in Edwardian Highgate – “Then and Now; Great Houses from past Highgate”.
The Mansions of Highgate Ridge
A talk by Richard Webber: Sun, July 8, 2018 7:00 PM. Book on eventbrite. Limited space so booking essential!
This is the story the Great Mansions of the Highgate Ridge, and the visionaries who lived in them. Using seldom seen material from the HLSI archives, the lecture focuses on the lifestyles of the early owners of these houses and the pioneering reforms for which many of them fought. Now that London has because a location of choice for the global rich, the lecture considers what we can learn from the similarities and differences between the lifestyles of the new occupiers of these mansions and those who lived in them a hundred years ago.
Professor Richard Webber was one of the lead researchers on the recent ESRC project, on this topic. Professor Webber is Visiting Professor at University of Newcastle. He is the originator of the Acorn and Mosaic systems which classify people by the neighbourhood in which they live and is a long term resident of Highgate.
Highgate is the location of arguably the finest collection of 20th and 21st Century Modern Homes, many of which are hidden from public view. Professor David Porter will give an illustrated talk on these and the progressive thoughts behind many of the schemes.
Places are limited so booking is essential through eventbrite, although the talk is FREE
Tessa and Ian Henghes and Karen and Mark Rogers will talk about their travels in Uganda with slides and tea with cake!
John Allan will give a talk – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London. He will present works by Wells Coates, Erno Goldfinger and Bertold Lubetkin, including conservation projects he has carried out on their key buildings such as Isokon Apartments, Willow Road and Highpoint. As a director of Avanti Architects, John is a foremost expert on the restoration of modern buildings, is founding chairman of DoCoMo-UK and chairman of the Isokon Gallery Trust
Please book:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-heroes-modern-movement-architects-in-north-london-tickets-53861601500