A word from the Editor’s desk for March issue As you read these notes I am away on the Island of Tenerife, where I am compiling reviews and writing a feature on the ex-pat Brits living in the Canary Islands who are involved in entertaining the holiday-makers. The content of… Continue reading
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UK Pantomime? Should we be covering panto? Yes or No. UK Cabaret managing editor Mark Ritchie examines the possibility of running a seasonal pantomime supplement within this publication. At the very outset of our publishing adventure in the summer of 2014, I made it abundantly clear that this publication… Continue reading
Showcase Productions Showcase 2016 – Reviews to be published this week Keep your eye out for the reviews from Statford which will be publishing over the next few days. Our subscribers to the printed versions have had the privilege of reading the reviews first. To get the reviews first, why… Continue reading
February Gossip Hoover Here we have more meaningless morsels of tittle-tattle regarding the lives of UK Cabaret subscribers and contributors. The Gossip Hoover has picked up many reports on the goings-on at the Keeping it Live showcase, staged in Blackpool last month. For reasons best known to themselves, the organisers… 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
A recent survey of Equity members, who are involved in variety or light entertainment revealed some pretty interesting results. Entertainment artistes were asked what their top-ten most common gripes and grumbles were, when it comes to the way they make a living. In descending order, the list of snags came… Continue reading
A word from the Editor’s desk for February. A great time was had by all at the Showcase Productions showcase event, held in Stratford on Avon last month. This issue of UK Cabaret contains detailed review coverage of the event, in which three separate Comperes were engaged. The legendary Tufty… Continue reading
GRAND ORDER OF WATER RATS, KING RAT 2016 IAN RICHARDS BELOW LIST OF NEW OFFICERS KING RAT IAN RICHARDS ADGER BROWN PRINCE RAT PRECEPTOR KEITH SIMMONS DEPUTY PRECEPTOR CHAS MC DEVITT RAY MARTIN TEST RAT FRAZER HINES COLLECTING RAT MIKE MARTIN SCRIBE RAT DAVID CAPRI ASST SCRIBE STEVE HEWLETT BAIT… Continue reading
