A Marvelous Party! The Noel Coward Celebration

Imagine a party as sparkling as a newly-popped bottle of champagne, a scintillating evening of ravishing melody and witty repartee—and you are invited! It’s all courtesy of that personification of style and sophistication, Noël Coward, the incomparable composer, lyricist, and razor-edged playwright who understood the human heart and the timeless, bittersweet joys of love as no one else could. Drawn from his songs, plays, and journals, this effervescent revue is a true summer sparkler, a lighthearted romp featuring thirty-three tunes and a bevy of sketches, anecdotes, writings and musings.

Songs include “Mad About the Boy,” “I’ll Follow My Heart,” “The Stately Homes of England,” “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “I’ve Been to a Marvelous Party” and “There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner;” as well as Coward’s skewering of stage mothers, “Mrs. Worthington,” and his lovingly caustic reworking of the lyrics in Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It.”