ROGER REMEMBERS – One wonders if, amid all the lighting effects and volume, some of the polish and stagecraft has disappeared from our stages. Writing about Roy and Jackie Toaduff last time brought it home to me just how smart their performance was. The way they came on, their… Continue reading
ROGER REMEMBERS It’s the old nostalgia tack once again. In the days of the variety theatre you didn’t always know want to expect, and sometimes what you got was downright odd, weird even. I don’t mean freak shows, dwarfs and so on, though most comedy bands had a little feller… Continue reading
ROGER REMEMBERS – I suppose I should count myself lucky – twice. The heyday of the clubs was in the sixties, and I was there to be a part of it. Years earlier, after WW2 and the early fifties, variety theatres were booming, and I was there to savour it… Continue reading
Start 2016 right! Don’t forget to say those important three little words to your significant other. “I’m off out” Wimmin! A mass of contradictions! She announced, “Right! This new year we’re keeping off bread & spuds and gonna lose all the weight that we’ve put on over Christmas.” “Okay.” I… Continue reading
Gossip Hoover We start 2016 with yet more gossip and tittle-tattle from the lives of UK Cabaret subscribers. Read on and devour meaningless morsels on show business people and their bits and bobs. UK Cabaret subscriber Billy Pearce is, as the Gossip Hoover writes these days, still immersed in pantoland… Continue reading
“Why did the Chicken cross the F***ing road?” If we used the F word in what may well be the oldest joke in the book, would that make it funny? I say no! There is nothing funny about using foul language. So why do so many comedians swear? Having worked… Continue reading
A word from the Editor’s desk First of all I would like to wish all our subscribers, advertisers, readers and associates a prosperous 2016. We have begun the new-year by raising the individual cover price of UK Cabaret to £3. An annual subscription now costs £30, which constitutes a considerable… Continue reading
When you can’t see the wood for trees At the turn of this year and after 20 years of performing “El loco the Dentist Chair“, 19 of those on holiday parks, I came to the conclusion I needed to take a break. I had performed almost 4,000 shows. The… Continue reading
