She has played multiple leads in the West End, including two years in Les Misérables (she played both female leads), Grease, Blood Brothers, and many others. She’s been in numerous big Pantomimes – so she has worked with a lot of celebrities. ‘Oh, yes she has’. Other work includes a part in ITV’s Peak Practice, being a high in demand singer for elite cruise ships and cabaret work, and lots of number one theatre tours. In 2021 she was cast as the face of a new kids’ TV channel and currently sings live most weeks on the radio.

With a rich comedy pedigree, his father was one of the most well know comedians in the 50s and 60s, who also devised Basil Brush and was the sole writer of every Basil Brush show for many years, (throughout the 60s and 70s). Our cast member, his son, is no comedy slouch either. Boom, Boom. He’s worked with most of the greats. He was in Spike Milligan’s TV show Q, multiple series of the Kenny Everett TV Show, he’s also worked live with Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill, and many others. His TV credits are too vast to go into but include Doctor Who. He is a valued member of the celebrity show business charity, “The Grand Order of Water Rats”, and was awarded the title ‘Rat of the Year’. He’s written various books on show business, wrote theatre reviews for The Stage Newspaper, and is the founding member of the comedy troop The London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra.

His career started with a bang – when he got the juvenile lead in the West End production of ‘The King & I’, opposite the show’s star Yul Brynner. More recently, he played Matthew, in Ridley Scott’s HBO TV series ‘Killing Jesus’. He has had multiple sold out Edinburgh Festival Comedy Shows. Including two that were about Jesus. With two decades of experience as a stand-up comic, he not only headlines 100s of shows a year, he also became a resident MC/Host for the UK’s biggest chain of comedy clubs. He has played the Christian Comedy Circuit; he also performs every year as King Herod in a massive show at the O2. Amongst the film and TV work he does, in 2022 he played DS Nawal in long running ITV soap Emmerdale.

He currently, and has for the last five years, presents a weekly London Radio Show. He has over two decades of experience working as a headline stand-up comedian, though now often performs Comedy Mentalism both on stage and on cruise ships. On film he starred in a picture that also featured Martin Freeman. He was in a Sunday Times ‘top ten’ film of the year and has played small parts in many big TV shows. For this project, we’ll concentrate on the work he’s done on Kid’s TV: he was in Ch5’s TooMuchTV which was nominated for a BAFTA (the Best Children’s Entertainment Show BAFTA). He had lead parts in 7 episodes of the Sky One sitcom BTV (which also starred, in his first TV job, David Walliams). Other Children’s TV shows he’s appeared in include: Bird Bath with Richard Briers, CH4’s Gamesworld, ITVs The Geeks, and the lead part in one episode of Audrey and Friends in which (bizarrely) his name is listed under the words ‘Special Guest Star’… Yes, he’s not sure why or how that happened?

He was in a 70s pop band that has the distinction of having played Top of the Pops and then directly after the broadcast having the single, they’d just promoted on TOTP, banned by the BBC. Throughout that decade, he extensively toured as the support act to MUD. He transitioned at the turn of the century onto the Stand-Up Comedy Circuit as a Comedy Musician – he’s known for his sunny outlook, quick-fire jokes, and comedy songs. He’s acted in a few films including one made by Guy Richie’s production company. Which spurred him on to making his own feature films and documentaries. One of his documentaries being the award winning ‘The Mentor’. He also continues to perform his upbeat comedy act, which being a ‘clean act’ has led to many TV spots on shows such as Dale Winton’s and in regular segments in Alan Titchmarsh’s Show, as Captain Q in Fern Britton’s, and as a panellist on ‘That’s Life’.

The original show [broadcast live December 2021] had 12 songs. 7 of them are in this touring show. We should just briefly note he also has extensive script writing credits for both TV and for stand-up comics. But we’re concentrating on his music writing. His first song released to the public was all the way back in the 1980s. Though being fair, that track was given away free with an issue of the Amstrad Action Computer Magazine. He says listening to that track today, and knowing they gave it away free; he feels people were over charged. At this point he was barely in his teens and some years off completing two A Levels in music and then going to Goldsmith’s University to study classical music composition. He has since written scores for films and TV, he’s written tracks for numerous artists, he’s had several albums released, and barely a week goes by when he doesn’t hear one of his songs blaring out on a radio station somewhere… radio? Argh, people are still listening to his work for free.