The Working Girls of Soho  – Cabaret, Performance, song and dance – what more do you need?

Josephine Pembroke, ex-Sohoite, veteran night club performer (Heaven, Cafe de Paris, The Hacienda) and star of the 90s Bond girl act Pussies Galore comes to the Tabard for her spectacular cabaret show The Working Girls of Soho.

The Working Girls of Soho, takes you on a captivating journey of discovery, meeting the women who made Soho happen. Meet ‘Ma’ Meyrick, the 1920s nightclub queen; encounter the legendary all-female crime syndicate, The Forty Elephants Gang; engage with street walkers Aristocratic Annie & Sadistic Cindy in a cabaret of comedy, characters, dance, torch songs & show tunes from the roaring 20s to the swinging 60s & into the bleak 70s.

Featuring a three piece band of piano, double bass and saxophone, expect spectacular show tunes, comedy, dance and wicked story telling!

‘With her tales of Soho’s wild women, from 17th Century madams to Muriel Belcher and Henrietta Moraes (interspersed with her own stories of wild living in Soho in the 1980s). Josephine Pembroke’s show, featuring songs from Sondheim to Cy Coleman & Dorothy Field, blows the doors off’ Liz Hoggard (The Telegraph & The Times)

“Captures the true spirit of Soho and the women who’ve been the beating heart of Soho since the 18th Century. Captivating and Riveting”
Celia Dodd, Times and The Independent

“Josephine’s show is nostalgic and sometimes mournful, but always defiant.”
Robert Bathurst, Cold Feet, Downtown Abbey

“Josephine’s show has all the nostalgia and corrupt innocence of Soho, before the ‘clean up.”
Richard Stirling, Cecil Beaton’s Diaries