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A musical theatre character comedy séance for Stephen Sondheim🔮
@thequeensofcups presents✨co-created by: @grace_o_keefe @blueeyedhag @muta_bel 🪄

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LAST LONDON SHOW: October 1st at the Phoenix Arts Club! Get your ticket now, it’s going to be a great one featuring a Sondheim inspired cabaret afterwards.

A summoning tonight! Five-Star EdFringe hit Summoning Sondheim is a musical comedy séance, in which Grace O’Keefe (Best Newcomer Musical Comedy Awards ’24, owner of Sondheim’s tarot cards) and Jordana Belaiche (West End: Jane in Disney’s Mary Poppins, Little Cosette in Les Misérables) summon Stephen Sondheim to save musical theatre, and therefore, the world. After hit runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, Seven Dials Playhouse, and the Glitch, Summoning Sondheim is returning to London before it heads to 54 Below.

Co-written by Jordana and Grace with original music by Grace (plus an occasional Sondheim parody), and directed and developed by Bel Parker, the show is a vehicle for elevating new womxn voices in musical theatre while venerating Sondheim’s legacy. Each show features special guests and this special night at the Phoenix Arts Club will feature a cabaret following the show of songs written by emerging womxn Musical Theatre writers and Sondheim.

***** “With its perfect blend of silliness, heart, and musical theater worship, “Summoning Sondheim” is a must-see” –London Theatre Reviews

****** “Sondheim would love this show” -Tab in the City

**** “Very entertaining… very funny” -The Scotsman

**** “You are sure to be bewitched” – Broadway Baby

**** “It is genuinely inspirational to witness” -Musical Theatre Review

**** “outrageously funny” – Theatre & Tonic

**** “divinely inspired” -North West End taken in Phoenix Arts Club by @summoningsondheim

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5-star Summoning Sondheim returns to London before heading to NYC from March 26th-April 7th at @theglitch_se1 with @vaultcreativearts

Grace O’Keefe (Best Newcomer at Musical Comedy Awards 2024 and co-creator of five-star EdFringe sell-out Bad Teacher) and Jordana Belaiche (West End Credits: Little Cosette in Les Misérables, Jane in Mary Poppins, yes, really) host this musical comedy séance. Their goal? To summon Sondheim’s spirit in order to save musical theatre and therefore, the world. Directed by Bel Parker.

Poster @dick_xmas video @chris_burnscreative production associate and tech @jakevenet lighting @giller94 choreography @clea_godsill costumes @rohelineivy set @lolly.low.theatre music production @tomjamesmcgrath taken in Lower Marsh Arts Club by @summoningsondheim

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A reminder that @realsondheim simply doesn’t take interns. @summoningsondheim opens this week @wearevault_ don’t miss your chance to see one of these letters in the flesh 🔮 @sondheimletters #stephensondheim #sondheim by @summoningsondheim

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Can’t make it to @54below tomorrow for @summoningsondheim? We’ve got a livestream!! Grab tickets at the link in bio to see our off-broadway debut 🔮✨

📸 @ianbowkettphotography taken in 54 Below by @summoningsondheim

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Have a little Friday treat! FLASH SALE: use code SUMMONING35 til tomorrow✨ taken in 54 Below by @summoningsondheim

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Off-Broadway debut in one week 😱 actually wild 🤪 maybe see you there?

@54below has a special accessible ticket scheme so there are a limited number of $15 tickets available for artists and those who need them, only 10 I think total available!

📸 @ianbowkettphotography taken in 54 Below by @summoningsondheim

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@ianbowkettphotography is the best photographer in the entire world and it’s taken me far too long to post the evidence of that 📸 more fab pics from behind the scenes and of the cabaret to come!!

@grace_o_keefe is headed to New York tomorrow to get prepping on our off-Broadway debut @54below so more shameless promotion to come ✨ taken in Phoenix Arts Club by @summoningsondheim

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@summoningsondheim is headed to @54below for ONE NIGHT ONLY on October 23rd 💫

We cannot wait to haunt “Broadway’s Living Room” and tickets are going quick so grab them now!

We cannot wait to summon you there 🔮

#sondheim #stephensondheim #musicaltheatre #musicaltheater #offbroadway #broadway #broadwaymusicals #broadwaymusical #broadwayshow #broadwaybaby taken in 54 Below by @summoningsondheim

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@summoningsondheim is heading to @54below in just over a fortnight 🔮✨

We are over the moon to announce our writer special guest will be the wickedly talented @theannakjacobs, writer of one of @grace_o_keefe’s favourite musicals ever @teeth_nyc 😬 and our MD will be the incredible @drewwutke 🎹

A huge thank you to @54below for including us in your Halloween round up, we absolutely cannot wait to haunt “Broadway’s Living Room” 💖

Tickets are going quickly, grab them while you can! taken in 54 Below by @summoningsondheim

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London! Need some more Halloweeny Musical Theatre? The brilliant @colmmolloy_ and @mikbetts will be bringing their spooky cabaret to @crazycoqs and @etcetera_theatre_camden 🎃

This Halloween, join singer-songwriter Michaela Betts and composer-pianist Colm Molloy as they invite you to revel with the dead! With songs about murder, ghosts, and witchcraft from the likes of Björk, Queen, and Weill, they have curated an evening that’s certain to stir your darkest desires and send shivers down your spine. by @summoningsondheim

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Goodbye bye @summoningsondheim! Thanks to everyone who attended our last London show @phoenixartsclub last Wednesday and gave this stupendously silly show a brilliant send off. I shan’t be accompanying the show to NYC when it makes its OFF BROADWAY DEBUT but am leaving the leading light that is Lillian Wynne/Channelle Marie in the very soft and capable hands of Rebecca Kent @rebex.kent who I know will take very very good care of them on that big bad Off-Broadway stage. If you’re not in New York you, like me, can watch the Livestream from @54below at some time in the wee hours of the night! ✨We’ve gone through so many grieving processes on this show since we started a mere year and a half ago so I’ll spare you another here but oh so many thanks to my Co-writer, producer, performer and mystic @grace_o_keefe , Herr Director & god @muta_bel, MD @eliza.dawson , costume mistress @rohelineivy, choreographer @clea_godsill , tech/associate producer @jakevenet and all of the many many many many many many many venues who let us perform séance in the guise of new musical theatre and all of you who kept coming to conjure and summon Stephan Songstream✨ by @summoningsondheim

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Chaos from Wednesday night @phoenixartsclub

I think I need to save the soppy post for later, but it was a very fittingly unhinged last London outing of @summoningsondheim 🔮😭💖

I love literally every single person who was there (including you @realsondheim 😚) thank you to every person who has made this show so magical

See you in a few weeks @54below ✨ taken in Phoenix Arts Club by @summoningsondheim

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