Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret - Couverture rigide

Levy, Benjamin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750991321 ISBN 13 : 9780750991322

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Today, 16 18 Beak Street is a burger bar, but don't let the muddy grey of the whitewashed oak walls deceive you. This building was once filled with dancing showgirls in glitzy costumes, performing to over 100 people a night. For this corner of Soho once housed Murray's Cabaret Club; night after night it forged fantasies for deadened aristocrats, served dishes of dreams to Arab businessmen, and provided refuge for hounded celebrities.

Founder Percival 'Pops' Murray introduced London to the 'Cabaret Floorshow', hiring an army of dancers, musicians and seamstresses to make sure that everything was perfect from the dancers' painted nails and intricate costumes, to the polished wood walls and the gleaming glass stage. However, the spell was broken in 1963 when the Profumo Scandal erupted a love triangle between a Murray's showgirl, Britain's Minister of War, and a Soviet spy, all at the height of the Cold War.

Here, Benjamin Levy tells the story of Murray's founding and the tales of the dancers both before and after their time at the club, the work that went into the shows and - in dazzling photographs and designs reveals the recently discovered costumes that were worn in London's most glamorous floorshow.

Biographie de l'auteur

Benjamin Levy is a former curatorial assistant in the V&A's Theatre & Performance Department. In that capacity, he helped mount a variety of exhibitions, including You Say You Want a Revolution? and Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, which sold in the hundreds of thousands and has toured the world. He independently created his own exhibitions, one of which was on Murray s Cabaret Club, which sold out and for which he has appeared in the media and on the lecture circuit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0750991321
• ISBN 13: 9780750991322
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224