A cabaret show about … making a cabaret show!
It’s 1955 and Las Vegas, a growing glitzy, neon drenched Mecca for gamblers and gangsters, is about to receive a surprise visit by one of the
world’s most famous entertainers, Noël Coward.
Revered, refined and respected, this quintessential Englishmen is about to headline one of the newest and glitziest clubs on the strip. No one guesses that his career is on the line: he’s washed up, passé, middleaged, bereft and broke. Worse, he’s arrived in America without rehearsal, without an accompanist, WITHOUT A SHOW!
Set in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the play reveals the
backstage story of ambition, desperation, loss and guts as a career
teeters on the edge. Seen through the eyes of his American
accompanist, Pete Matz, A Coward in Vegas shows the personal
sacrifice of stardom and the knife-edge difference between success and
failure.
A Coward in Vegas catches the entertainment legend at a pivotal point as he swings from being a hopelessly
outdated queer Englishman to international performance icon with crowds – including the Hollywood A-list -
clamouring for more.
Written and directed by John Senczuk, A Coward in Vegas stars renowned Coward exponent John Michael Swinbank
as Coward and Swinbank’s long time accompanist Tim Cunniffe, making his acting debut as Pete Matz, Coward’s
American accompanist.
Show specifics:
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