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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
Saturday 4 July 11am till 6pm
A joyful Pride celebration with drag DJs, food and drink, face painting, arts and crafts, all hosted alongside the Pride in London Parade route.
Saturday 4 July 6.30pm
An opportunity for the LGBTQIA+ community and allies to gather in the heart of the city, in the middle of London Pride for a celebratory church service.
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
We aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
It costs £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Monday 1 June 1.10pm
Will Hopkins Sings Sondheim.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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Whether £5 or any amount you’re able to give. Donations can be made in cash in the basket on your way out, or by tap donation at the machines at our exits. Your generosity helps support our cultural events and charitable services. Thank you.
Free admission | Donations welcome
MOVE ON: A Journey Through Sondheim
Written by Stephen Sondheim & Harrison Knights
Performed by Will Hopkins
Accompanied by James Church
Directed by Harrison Knights
CHILDHOOD
Opening / Lesson #8
Giants In The Sky
GROWING UP
Children Will Listen
Not While I’m Around
ADULTHOOD
Another Hundred People
Company
LOVE
Johanna
Marry Me A Little
CAREER
Finishing the Hat
Broadway Baby
EPILOGUE
Being Alive
Sunday
Artist Bios
Will Hopkins trained at ArtsEd and with the London Meisner Company. He is also an alumnus of the St James’s scholarship programme as a tenor. He performed at the London Palladium in the 10th anniversary production of Made in Dagenham and played Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera North. His screen work includes an upcoming feature directed by Flynn Matthews. He is a recipient of the Kurt Weill Foundation Emerging Talent Award in NYC.
James Church fell in love with the music of Stephen Sondheim as a teenager after hearing the London cast album of Passion. Shortly after graduating from University of Chichester, he was thrilled to be asked to accompany auditions for the Stephen Sondheim Society Performer of the Year Awards.
Since then, James has collaborated with numerous West End artists as a cabaret producer and musical director, including Hannah Waddingham, Jessie Buckley, Janie Dee, Sharon D. Clarke, Graham Bickley, Cassidy Janson, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Rosemary Ashe, and Sally Ann Triplett.
His London cabaret credits include Some Other Time: Leonard Bernstein – in Words and Music (with Kim Criswell and Edward Seckerson), Bryan Batt: Batt on a Hot Tin Roof (which lead to a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune), Gregg Edelman: Broadway State of Mind, Maria Kesselman: Heroines of Song, and Sophie Louise Dann: From Classic to Coward to Current (Crazy Coqs); as well as performances with Caroline Sheen (The Lansdowne Club), Leanne Jones (The Hippodrome Casino), Jessica Martin (Hackney Empire), Russell Grant (The Pheasantry), and Madalena Alberto (The Actors’ Church).
His theatre credits as Assistant Musical Director include Singin’ in the Rain (China Tour); Robert J. Sherman’sBumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre); Sweeney Todd (the acclaimed Tooting Arts Club production); Julian Slade’s Free as Air (Finborough Theatre); and Ivor Novello’s Gay’s the Word (Jermyn Street Theatre).
As a rehearsal pianist, James has worked for the BBC Proms and the Maida Vale Singers, and regularly contributes to classes at leading drama schools.
