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“A one off, daring to go further than you ever imagined a performer would”
– Musical Theatre Review

Andrew Pepper is an actor, singer and “walking Dr Seuss character” (thanks, Time Out!) who works predominantly on stage.

As an actor, he’s popped up all over the shop, from Frankfurt to Aberdeen.

He recently completed a season at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, playing Abanazaar in Aladdin.

Last year, he appeared in Paris playing Hysterium in the (long overdue) French premiere of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the debut production of the newly re-opened Théâtre du Lido.

Andrew began his career wreaking havoc on Cherry Tree Lane in the original West End production of Mary Poppins and has since played a scarecrow, a Restoration fop, an American assassin, the Grinch, a mad vegan, a mad professor and the Mad Hatter (twice). 

He’s played Shakespeare clowns, a singing landmine, and as a pantomime Dame he’s flirted his way into the hearts of the good people of Chipping Norton. 

He regularly works with children’s mentoring charity SCENE AND HEARD as as a director, dramaturg and actor. Whilst working with them as an actor, he’s played pretty much everything from a rainbow maxi-dress to a depressed posh toilet. He’s very versatile, doncha know!

His cabaret alter-ego
might just have walked out of a Las Vegas showroom sometime in the 70s…

Or maybe off the stage of the Paris Olympia, circa 1962.

Maybe your great gran saw him on the stage of some Victorian music hall giving Dan Leno a run for his money.

Having said all that… he might just have walked out of the pages of a Roald Dahl novel.

Wherever he came from, he’s a one-off who has to be seen to be believed.

Well, luckily you can…

Presenting old school/new school/middle school cabaret extravaganzas for the London crowd and beyond, Pepper has a residency at the capital’s premiere cabaret venue…

The Crazy Coqs (Live at Zédel).

What’s the cabaret repertoire like?

Eclectic!

Recent shows have included songs written or originated by…

Adele, Todd Almond, Tom Baxter, Jeff Blumenktantz, Bertolt Brecht,  Jacques Brel, Leslie Bricusse, Kate Bush, Cher, Cy Coleman, Jamie Cullum, Dorothy Fields, Whitney Houston, Elton John, John Kander & Fred Ebb, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Tim Minchin, Carmen Miranda, Edith Piaf, Dick Scanlan, James Shelton, Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, Jeanine Tesori, Kurt Weill & David Yazbek.

Photo credits:

  1. Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Julien Benhamou.
  2. Abanazaar in Aladdin by See Li.
  3. Charles Guiteau in Assassins by Lidia Crisafulli.
  4. Cammie in Robinson Crusoe by Josh Tomalin.