KIT AND THE WIDOW
Kit
and the Widow
met in the
Cambridge
University
Footlights
and immediately
went their
separate ways!
Kit researched
and produced
arts documentaries
for BBC TB,
whilst he
Widow worked
as an itinerant
musician and
occasional
waiter, until
they reconvened
at the Comedy
Store during
the dark days
of the Falklands
Crisis.
Their
stylish musical
humour soon
catapulted
them into
the ozone
layer of the
theatrical
firmament.
As well as
the principal
cabaret venues
and Park Lane
hotels, they
had sell out
shows at the
New End, Kings
Head, Donmar
Warehouse
and Albery
Theatres and
twice at the
Lyric Theatre,
Hammersmith.
They have
pitilessly
perpetrated
their art
in the provinces
- the Swan,
Stratford,
Colchester,
Canterbury,
Brighton,
Wolverhampton,
Bradford,
Darlington
and beyond.
Five
giddy years
on, the Edinburgh
Fringe culminated
in 1988 when
they played
the Royal
Lyceum Theatre
as part of
the official
Edinburgh
Festival,
the first
cabaret artists
since Dietrich
to do so.
Their
frenzied work
for charity
and world
peace has
taken them
into the Palladium,
the Theatre
Royal, Drury
Lane and the
Victoria Palace.
The have sung
to the khaki
of our Brave
Boys in the
Gulf and to
the tiaras
of Monte Carlo;
from countless
marquee fundraisers
to the Cresta
Centenary
Ball in St
Moritz; Henley,
Ascot, Cowes
and all but
three members
of the Royal
House of Windsor.
Their
numerous TV
appearances
include several
Wogans, Monkhouse,
Des O'Connor
Live, Sunday
Night At the
Palladium
and the Royal
Variety Performance.
On radio they
have frequently
appeared on
Start the
Week, Stop
the Week;
Loose Ends;
Round Midnight;
Friday Night
is Music Night
and have undergone
exploratory
probes by
Gloria Hunniford
and Vince
Hill.
When
not performing
and writing
for Kit and
the Widow,
Kit Hesketh-Harvey
is a writer
of screenplays,
opera translations
and musicals.
He lives in
Norfolk with
his wife,
the actress
Kate Rabett,
their Daughter
Augusta and
the Tibetan
terriers,
Throwback
and Lady Mangetout.
Richard
Sisson is
a musical
director and
composer for
Theatre About,
Glasgow and
the Traverse,
Edinburgh.
He has written
three ballets
based on the
works of Katherine
Mansfield
for New Zealand
Ballet and
has composed
much for the
theatre, including
the RSC. He
lives with
his rabbits,
KT and Miss
Meatloaf,
in Maida Vale,
London.
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