Well-Behaved Women song cycle to run at Cadogan Hall with all star cast

An all star cast of West End performers will appear in a new song cycle at Cadogan Hall.

Well-Behaved Women by Carmel Dean will play for one night only on Friday, 3 September 2021

The cast features Maisey Bawden (Lady Liberty), Anna-Jane Casey (Billie Jean King and Janet Armstrong), Janie Dee (Eleanor Roosevelt), Nicole Raquel Dennis (Eve), Hiba Elchikhe (Cleopatra and Malala Yousafzai), Kerry Ellis (Boudicca), Gabriela García (Frida Kahlo), Cassidy Janson (Virginia Woolf), Rachel John (Maya Angelou), Linda John-Pierre (Harriet Tubman) and Rachael Wooding (Mary Magdalene).

The piece will be directed by Julie Atherton with musical direction by Ellie Verkerk and an all-female live band.

Tickets are on sale now here from cadoganhall.com with tickets priced from £25.

A teaser for the piece shares: “What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and Maya Angelou sound like if you heard them sing? Find out in Well-Behaved Women, a new collection of songs by Carmel Dean. These women – and more – will be brought to life by some of the West End’s finest leading ladies and, through these powerful and often hilarious songs, will celebrate the ways in which their bad-ass behaviour helped them make history.

“Inspired by the emergence of the #metoo movement, Well-Behaved Women is a wonderful ode to the fierce famous females from history. These stories of courage, strength and resilience are memorialized through a range of musical styles from rock and jazz to country.”

Producers Jamie Lambert and Eliza Jackson said today “We are thrilled to present the UK premiere of this exciting new song cycle celebrating some of the most wonderful women throughout history.

“To be able to celebrate and commemorate those who have fought the fight for equality in all forms before us, in such a fun and moving way, is an honour, and to have gathered this incredible group of women in one performance shows the passion and dedication that all involved possess for this incredibly important topic.

“Inspired by the emergence of the #MeToo movement, these stories of courage, strength and resilience are memorialised through music in the most special of ways.”