Viccis view Feb 2016
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Gossip Hoover Feb 2016
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 – Feb 2016
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
Survey of Equity members
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 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
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
SHOWCASE SPECIAL- 10 PAGES OF REVIEWS INSIDE
Coming soon SHOWCASE SPECIAL- 10 PAGES OF REVIEWS INSIDE THE PRINTED VERSION We have made this available exclusively to our subscribers to the printed version in the first instance – web versions will be available at a later date
Obtaining UK Cabaret
Obtaining UK Cabaret A UK Cabaret subscription costs just £30 a year from January 1st 2016. In return for this annual payment, you receive a copy of UK Cabaret magazine, delivered through the Royal Mail. Alternatively you may wish to receive your copy by e-mail. You also receive a business… Continue reading
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Roger Remembers Jan 2016
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