Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the multi-talented British composer, and performer who once was one-half of the fabulous cabaret act Kit and The Widow has died suddenly aged 65.
He wrote the screenplay for the 1987 Merchant Ivory gay classic film Maurice, which starred a young Hugh Grant, and also worked on BBC shows, including the hit sitcom The Vicar of Dibley,
Up to 2012, he was part of the highly successful cabaret duo Kit and the Widow alongside pianist Richard Sisson and they had a style that combines musical classicism and an understated Cambridge urbanity with often outrageous satirical content.
Targets of their quintessential British humor range from stereotypes, such as the English white van driver (“White Van Man”) and new-agers (“Dog on a String”), to the more specific, such as particular individuals such as Andrew Lloyd Webber (“Somebody Else”). Their poignant song “Swansong” sets a poem about the damage to the environment caused by rubbish, over a version of The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns.
They performed several items at the BBC Comedy Proms and in 2012, they announced on their official website that after thirty years they had ended their partnership.
Christopher John "Kit" Hesketh-Harvey (30 April 1957 – c. 1 February 2023) RIPPS. One of Queerguru’s all-time favorites was SPAIN ….. as seen through the eyes of British working girls on their annual package-holiday
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