The Stephen Sondheim Society

Celebrate Sondheimas 2025 by raising your voice along with ours in a sensational Sondheim singalong! Our host Tim McArthur will lead the singing at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, London, and everyone's welcome, irrespective of vocal prowess!

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Stephen Sondheim would have been 95 on 22nd March this year, and to celebrate his birthday - now dubbed Sondheimas! - The Stephen Sondheim Society has asked Tim mcArthur and MD Aaron Clingham to host a fun evening of song... and you're invited to sing along!​

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Tim and Aaron will be joined by some of their glamorous showbiz mates, and a chorus of recent finalists from The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition will help fill out the harmonies. So, you don't have to be a professional or student singer, and don't worry about memorising the lyrics - these will be projected so just follow along. All you need to do is SING OUT, LOUISE! (and LOUIS!)

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The singalong will be held at Upstairs at the Gatehouse on Sunday 23th March at 8pm.

 

Budding Broadway Babies, Beautiful Girls and Boys From... can book here [external site] for just £22. Members of the Society can enjoy a 20% discount - look out for a newsletter email for the discount code.

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Cast includes:

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TIM McARTHUR hosted the regular Stephen Sondheim Society Presents... cabaret series at the Phoenix Arts Club for a number of years. He also had the honour of playing The Baker in Into The Woods at The Cockpit Theatre for a 6 week season in 2018. In the summer of 2014 for an 8 week sell-out hit season, Tim also played the lead role of Maurice in Bathhouse The Musical at Above The Stag Theatre, a role which he returned to in 2015.

Other theatre credits include Sam Byck in Assassins at The Pleasance Theatre, Man 1 in In Gay Company at The Rada, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered (2011), Classic Moments Hidden Treasures (2010, (Jermyn Street), Jack Crawford in Silence of The Lambs (Above The Stag), John Prescott in Blair on Broadway (Arts Theatre), Forever Plaid (UK Tour), Fred Astaire: His Daughter’s Tribute (London Palladium), Helen Lederer's One Night Stand with her date Tim McArthur (UK Tour), Ugly Sister in Cinderella (Radlette), Cole, Side By Side Sondheim (Upstairs at The Gatehouse), You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow (Greenwich), Company (WestCliff), Wizard of Oz (Guildford), South Pacific (Aberystwyth), Joseph (Middlesbrough and Chelmsford). Plays include As You Like It (Colchester), Twelfth Night (Catford) and Another Country (Greenfields). Tim has spent four seasons playing Dame in Panto in Hereford - Sleeping Beauty (2011), Aladdin (2010), Dick Whittington (2012) and Cinderella (2013). Tim made his debut with the Qdos Productions playing the role of Nurse Nellie in Snow White opposite Linda Robson at the Becks Theatre Hayes. (2014) Aladdin (2015) Charming Dick (2016), Then returned to Qdos at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings in Sleeping Beauty opposite Honey G (2017), Jack And The Beanstalk opposite Chico and Michelle Collins and Aladdin (2019) opposite Duncan James​.

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LIZZIE BEA

Lizzie trained at National Youth Theatre, National Youth Music Theatre and National Student Drama Festival. Theatre credits include Princess Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk (Westlands Entertainment Venue), Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act (Dominion Theatre, Hammersmith Apollo and UK Tour), Martha Dunnstock in Heathers (The Other Palace), Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray (London Coliseum), Ensemble in A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre), Abigail Henson in the World Premiere of Becoming Nancy (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), Pat in Kinky Boots (UK Tour), u/s Kelly, Betty & Val in Fat Friends the Musical (UK Tour), Rose in Dino Story and Ducky Daddles in Chicken Little (From Page to Stage – The Other Palace), Actress 2 in The Shakespeare Revue (UK Tour), Bee/Mother Pig in The 3 Little Pigs (UK & International Tour), Polly Parish in The Other School (St James Theatre).

Workshops include Woman 1 in For the Record (Blue Touch Paper Productions), Penny in Sumo Girls (table read for Feature Film), Amy in [Large and] In Charge (Paper Mug), Abigail Henson in Becoming Nancy (London and New York casts), Martha Dunnstock in Heathers (The Other Palace). Recordings include Sister Act 2024 Live West End Recording, Little Bo Frilly in The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Stiles and Drewe), Ella in Where’s Charley’s Aunt? and Flo Bates in Half a Sixpence (Demo Recordings – both for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd).

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OWAIN RHYS DAVIES

Cardiff born Owain is an award-winning actor who’s worked and has had success globally. As an actor, Owain’s London West End credits include Olivier Award nominated and winning productions such as Mamma Mia!, The Wizard of Oz and By Jeeves, as well as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Royal National Theatre. He has toured the world with various productions such as Disney’s The Lion King, Something Rotten, Imagine This, Grease, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Under Milk Wood and the multi-nominated UMPO Summer Blockbuster at the Cape Rep Theatre, for which Owain also directed.

Owain is best known for his character Agent Wilson in David Lynch’s Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Twin Peaks: The Return. His other television and film credits include Disney’s Alice Through The Looking Glass, BBC’s The Indian Doctor, Awesomeness TV's My Dead Ex, Netflix's The OA, BBC’s The Round House Family, The Orchard’s The Relationtrip, and the critically acclaimed feature film A Serial Killers Guide To Life, which can be seen on Amazon Prime. 

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JENNIFER HEPBURN

Theatre includes: Opening Night (Gielgud Theatre; Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre; Corbyn: The Musical (Waterloo East); Van Winkle: A Folk Musical (The Other Palace); Taboo (Brixton Club House); Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary Concert (02 Arena); A Tale of Two Cities (Charing Cross Theatre and Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); Cats (25th Anniversary Tour); Jekyll & Hyde (UK Tour); Moonshadow: A Cat Steven’s Musical (Workshop); Waterbabies (The Dominion/Workshop); The Buccaneer (The Finborough Theatre); Brecht on Brecht (The Producers Club, NYC); Anything Goes (Mac-Haydn Theatre, NY); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (CATCO, USA) and West Side Story (Mac-Haydn Theatre, NY)

 Other credits include: Zombie in GiffGaff (Commercial); Christine in Selections from Love Never Dies; Mathilde Neruda/Carmen in The Postman and the Poet (Workshop & Recordings, JAY/TER Records); Dublin! AKA Ha’Penny Bridge (Recording); Simply Broadway (Recording, JAY Recordings); Soloist at Berio Southbank Festival (Dukes Hall).

Jennifer’s debut album NY*LON is available on all platforms.

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Plus: SSSSPOTY ENSEMBLE

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