Update 3/3: Due to demand there will be an additional 13 dates for Danny Baker’s first ever tour. The new shows will take place in Guildford, St Albans, Eastbourne, Hull, Milton Keynes, Salford, Birmingham, Newcastle, High Wycombe, York, Crawley, Maidstone and Brighton from April 6 - 30. Tickets on sale now. Details here.
Comedy writer/broadcaster Danny Baker is to tour for the first time. Cradle To The Stage will begin in Leeds at the City Varieties on 1 February 2017, as part of a 35 date tour across the UK, culminating at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 31 March & 1 April.
Baker has explained why he has decided to do this: “The stage has always been my first love. Let me put that another way. I have never done anything like this before in my life. However, to travel from town to town addressing a fabulous gathering of like-minded chums each night seems to me exactly what Shakespeare would have done, had not the hefty rent at The Globe kept him in London. As a consequence, William Shakespeare toured about as frequently as Kate Bush. Well not me. I own very few theatres anymore and so I am now totally free to charge about here and there wowing the folks with my anecdotal back catalogue, games involving sausages and impressive six octave range.
No two nights of this extravaganza will be the same. This is less of a boast than admission that a) I am hopeless at learning scripts and b) I still have no idea what I am going to include. Perhaps you can help? If you’ve read my books, watched the series based on them or, indeed, ever caught anything I have presented on television/radio then maybe you might contribute to the feast of reason and flow of the soul that I guarantee these evenings will contain. Questions like, “Did your friend really eat saveloys from a pith helmet” or “What was meeting John Lennon/Michael Jackson/David Bowie/Kenneth Williams like?” or, I suspect, most popular of all “How comes you’ve made so many rotten TV programs, Dan?”
“I will of course arrive in front of you going off like a Cacophonous Catherine Wheel of Chat, armed with hundreds of tall tales to tell many complete with proof from my family picture album to stop you thinking I am simply raving. I’ve been at this showman racket a full 40 years now my friends – there is truly much to discuss and plenty to be held to account for."
Danny Baker has worked in print, television and radio for over 30 years. His recent bestselling autobiographies were turned into the hit BBC series Cradle to Grave and he is currently working on the third instalment. He can be heard on Saturdays with his multi award winning BBC Radio 5 Live show which includes his usual mixture of music, sport, guests and, of course, Baker's encyclopaedic wit.
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