Sandra Marvin

Back from the RSC in the Pulitzer award-winning Fat Ham, West End favourite Sandra Marvin returns to Crazy Coqs with her fabulous show.

Expect an evening of soulful classics and jazz favourites from Whitney to Stevie, Luther Vandross to Roberta Flack – all interwoven with Sandra’s divine vocal talent and undeniable warmth and charm.

“She is brilliant. She has the vocals of a goddess”– UK Theatre

Sandra has wowed audiences as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act, Angélique in & Juliet, Becky in Waitress, Matron Mamma Morton in Chicago, Miss Motormouth Maybelle in the West End cast of Hairspray, Queenie in Showboat, as well as Ragtime, Porgy & Bess, and Mrs Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol. Other notable productions include Committee and City of Angels for Donmar Warehouse, Romantics Anonymous for Wise Children and Bagdad Cafe for The Old Vic.

Beyond the stage, Sandra performed in Kate Bush’s legendary Before The Dawn residency at London’s Eventim Apollo (and on the live album), and has sung alongside Liam Gallagher, Michael Ball, and The Charlatans. Her powerhouse vocals feature on film scores from Gravity and Florence Foster Jenkins to Mary Poppins Returns and the recent film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

On screen, she’s recently known as Jessie Dingle in Emmerdale and Pat Williams in Call the Midwife.

“The greatest performance of the night, and, without exaggeration, one of the greatest performances which I have ever seen in a theatre, belongs to Sandra Marvin. Playing the part of Motormouth Maybelle, her performance of the torch song “I Know Where I’ve Been” is literally breathtaking. Physically and emotionally affecting, finding a rare poignancy, Marvin’s performance of this song is worth the ticket price alone. Superlatives fail”– Scott Purvis, Whats-On-Stage

“Whoopi Goldberg may have patented the kick-ass sass role in the Oscar-laden 1992 film, but stand aside Sister, there’s a new seismic sensation in the neighbourhood, and Sandra Marvin’s run-away freight-train-subtle Deloris is about to seize the role by its Philadelphian fun horns and quite possibly own it forever.”– Review Hub

“Sandra Marvin’s vocally magnificent Mama Morton”– Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph