Robert Hazle
@roberthazle.bsky.social
Cabaret performer, MD & panto director. Singing ‘The Shows we Used To Know’: the forgotten favourites and fabulous flops of musical theatre history. www.roberthazle.com #showsweusedtoknow Profile photos: Miranda Mazzarella/Pamela Raith.
It was a pleasure to welcome Paul Hendy to our archive last week. Paul is the writer & director of the fantastic @thelastlaughplay, which brings together Britain’s comedy greats Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe & Bob Monkhouse in a dressing room. Learn more about our archive: buff.ly/aA14jxy
I'm bringing this lovely West End cabaret to The Tree House Bookshop #Kenilworth next Sunday 27th What could be more lovely than Musical Theatre in a Bookshop? www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/events/2026/... Tickets still available
The Shows We Used to Know
Robert Hazle and Helena Northcote sing songs from forgotten British musicals, the favourites and the flops.
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Tickets are selling fast for the 3rd British Music Hall Society Conference at the Cinema Museum on 21st November. There's a 'catering' theme this year, which promises to be huge fun. Book HERE www.ticketsource.com/britishmusic... #musichall #musichallmonday
I am very excited by today's show. I am chatting to @roberthazle.bsky.social and Helena Northcote about The Shows We Used To Know which they are bringing to @treehousebookshop.bsky.social in September. On live at 12 or afterwards on Mixcloud
This week's show has special guests @roberthazle.bsky.social and Helena Northcote chatting about their cabaret, The Shows We Used to Know which they are bringing to @treehousebookshop.bsky.social in September www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/s...
One more post (tonight, at least), in praise of entertainment that entertains.
Just a song at twilight . . .
[a brief interlude]
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This perhaps only appeals to a niche subset of people here on BS, but ahh the happiness it brings me. Philip Quast (my first, Javert, many years ago in Aus), Bradley Jaden, Jeremy Secomb, and Jordan Donica singing Stars at a special #LesMiserables performance at Radio City Hall. #MakeTheatreNotWar
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THE SHOWS WE USED TO KNOW to Welcome Jenna Augen at The Crazy Coqs
UK Theatre Award-winner Jenna Augen joins Robert Hazle's THE SHOWS WE USED TO KNOW at The Crazy Coqs, bringing a Broadway perspective to the series celebrating forgotten West End favourites and flops.
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It's Showtune's 5th Anniversary at the start of July and to celebrate I have 2 special shows. I am absolutely thrilled this week to have been able to chat with the man who casts Musicals, David Grindrod.
Still awestruck to have been part of this yesterday! An honour to be saluting Noel Coward’s career and marking the 20th anniversary of the Noel Coward Theatre. West End Live in Trafalgar Square: #WestEndLive youtu.be/y8hz1mpH1u8?...
Noël Coward In The West End: Robert Hazle & Helena Northcote | West End LIVE 2026
YouTube video by OfficialLondonTheatre
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#BreakALeg to everyone at West End LIVE 2026 which takes place this weekend in Trafalgar Square theatreweekly.com/west-end-liv...
West End LIVE 2026 Line-Up Announced for Return to Trafalgar Square - Theatre Weekly
The full line-up has been announced for West End LIVE 2026, which returns to Trafalgar Square on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June
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🎭 What secrets were hiding in the East End music halls? Discover London's forgotten Cockney Yiddish performers — the songs, laughs & stories from the turn of the 20th century. Talk by Vivi Lachs · Tues 26 May · 7pm 🎟️ buff.ly/PrRF2G5
Celebrating @musichallsociety.bsky.social’s #musichallvarietyday with a trip to the seaside and doing the Blackpool Walk!
Today's show is a MGM musicals special. I had so much fun choosing songs that it is an extra 12 minutes long - bonus content! Live at 12 on www.radioabbey.com
It's Monday, it's Music Hall! 🎭 #MusicHallMonday The legendary boots of Little Tich — whose Big-Boot Dance influenced everyone from Chaplin to Tati — are on loan from our #archive to Blackpool's Showtown Museum. Go and see them!
In show 213, I spoke to Becky Hope Palmer about her new musical #LifeLine @swkplay.bsky.social give it a listen and go and support new writing! www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/s...
Showtune 213 06.02.2026
A mix of fabulous show tunes from stage and screen musicals. This week featuring an interview with Becky Hope Palmer, book writer of new musical Life Line
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I don't have the backing of a big station behind me and yet I have built a show that has regular worldwide listeners. It's very very hard to publicise a radio show, nobody wants to share it, but I'm still plugging away. This week's playlist is 'love'ly www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/s...
Showtune 214 13.02.26
A valentine's themed show of love songs from all eras of stage and screen musicals
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Meanwhile in NY, Shani Wallis's performance in A Time for Singing, a 1966 flop musical adaptation of How Green Was My Valley got her the role of Nancy in Oliver! (she played the same role Maureen O'Hara played in the film) A Time for Singing lasted 41 performances.
17-year-old Sheila White so impressed the creatives of the 1966 British musical On the Level that they wrote a charm song for her and it proved an enormous showstopper. On the Level lasted 118 performances, but "Bleep-Bleep" led directly to Sheila getting cast as Bet in the film version of Oliver!
Bleep-Bleep
Sheila White
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Yet another grey and wet day outside. What's needed is an hour of fantastic songs from stage and screen to brighten things up a bit. www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/s...
Showtune 212 30.01.26
Fabulous show tunes from all eras of stage and screen musicals
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If you like musicals, you’ve got to give Showtune a listen. The best mix of show songs out there!
Showtune on Radio Abbey (Vicki)@showtunera.bsky.social · 8mo agoI can guarantee that you will never make a streaming service happy by listening to it. But listening to a human who has put hours of work into their show, absolutely makes their day! www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/s...
Hello Bluesky friends, I’m back at one of my favourite cabaret venues, Crazy Coqs, for another edition of the award-winning THE SHOWS WE USED TO KNOW. This time I have dazzlingly talented guests joining me to sing the things I can’t! Hope to see you there: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/rober...
"I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my Winter's rent.. " 🎶 Remembering #otd b.Stepney, London, music hall comic singer, Charles Coborn, The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo! @musichallsociety.bsky.social @heathertweed.bsky.social @billyrough.bsky.social @roberthazle.bsky.social
The Shows We Used To Know MAY ROUND-UP A selection of shows that opened in May in years gone by:
I’ll REMEMBER HER by Noel Coward from ‘The Girl Who Came To Supper’ From #TheShowsWeUsedToKnow at Crazy Coqs
UNROMANTIC US by Sandy Wilson from ‘The Buccaneer’ A rare outing for Wilson’s follow up to The Boy Friend.
