Brian Conley has embarked on a 2018 UK Tour Still The Greatest Entertainer – In His Price Range. He will perform to audiences around the UK on a 40 date tour until 10 June 2018.
With a career spanning over 40 years, Conley is one of the UK’s best loved personalities and fresh from his recent appearance on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing 2017, Still The Greatest Entertainer – In His Price Range will see him entertaining audiences with a mix of music and comedy, including some of his best-known and much loved characters, such as Dangerous Brian and Nick Frisby (“It’s a Puppet!”), as well as paying tribute to the many West End Musicals he’s starred in – including Me and My Girl, Hairspray, Oliver, The Music Man and Barnum.
Conley will also be welcoming back guest act Mat Ricardo, the gentleman juggler. Mat is one of the most unique variety performers in the country, both hilarious and astonishing, and he returns to support the 2018 UK Tour.
As well as touring the length and breadth of the UK, Conley has recently recorded an exciting new television series called Buy It Now for Channel 4.
Brian Conley’s extensive career spans television, stage and film, his break out in television came in 1992 when ITV commissioned the hugely successful The Brian Conley Show, which went on to become Britain’s most-watched entertainment show at the time, coining his famous catchphrase ‘It’s a puppet!’. Conley’s television career has seen him win multiple awards including a National Television Award for Most Popular Television Performer. He has presented the Royal Variety Performance eight times, and recently hosted two series of BBC One’s The TV That Made Me.
As a comedy actor his television work includes The Grimleys (ITV) and two series of the British Comedy Award winning Time After Time (ITV), he has also been in Last of the Summer Wine (BBC) and Baker Street (ITV), and on film he has appeared inEquilibrium, Arthur’s Dyke and Hotel! Conley has worked extensively on stage throughout his career where his West End theatre credits include Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre and UK Tour), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre) andJolson (Victoria Palace Theatre), he also starred in The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre. His many UK Tour credits include Alive and Dangerous, Barnum, Oliver and The Play What I Wrote, as well as his own tours including The Real Life of Brian Conley and An Evening With Brian Conley. He recently starred in his thirty-fifth pantomime and has recorded three albums.
Still The Greatest Entertainer – In His Price Range is performed and written by Brian Conley and presented by Chris Wood for Stokewood Productions Ltd, Tour Manager and Sound Engineer is Gareth Hopwood.
Tickets from £26.15
Box Office 0844 871 3024
Online www.atgtickets.com/york
TOUR DATES, VENUES and BOX OFFICE NUMBERS
24 April 2018 CANTERBURY MARLOWE THEATRE 01227 787787
25 April 2018 SHANKLIN THEATRE- ISLE OF WIGHT 01983 868000
26 April 2018 HAYES BECK THEATRE 020 8561 8371
27 April 2018 YEOVIL WESTLANDS MAIN HALL 01935 422884
29 April 2018 SUNDERLAND EMPIRE THEATRE 0844 8713022
01 May 2018 DARLINGTON HIPPODROME THEATRE 01325 486555
04 May 2018 FLORAL PAVILION NEW BRIGHTON 0151 666 0000
05 May 2018 MARINE HALL FLEETWOOD 01253 887693
08 May 2018 CREWE LYCEUM THEATRE 01270 368242
10 May 2018 CHELMSFORD CIVIC THEATRE 01245 606505
11 May 2018 HASTINGS WHITE ROCK THEATRE 01424 462288
12 May 2018 EMBASSY THEATRE SKEGNESS 01507 613100
15 May 2018 SWINDON WYVERN THEATRE 01793 524481
16 May 2018 NEW THEATRE OXFORD 0844 871 3020
17 May 2018 NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE 0115 941 9419
18 May 2018 HEREFORD COURTYARD THEATRE 01432 340555 *
19 May 2018 CRAWLEY HAWTH THEATRE 01293 553636
20 May 2018 JERSEY OPERA HOUSE 0044 1534 511115
22 May 2018 THEATRE ROYAL WAKEFIELD 01924 211311
23 May 2018 HULL CITY HALL 01482 300300
24 May 2018 ROTHERHAM CIVIC THEATRE 01709 823621
25 May 2018 YORK GRAND OPERA HOUSE 0844 871 3024
26 May 2018 HALIFAX VICTORIA THEATRE 01422 351158
01 June 2018 MANCHESTER PALACE THEATRE 0844 871 3019
02 June 2018 STAFFORD GATEHOUSE THEATRE 01785 254653
03 June 2018 DARTFORD ORCHARD THEATRE 01322 220000
05 June 2018 WIMBORNE TIVOLI THEATRE 01202 885566
06 June 2018 THE ALBAN ARENA 01727 844488
07 June 2018 PORTSMOUTH NEW THEATRE ROYAL 023 9264 9000
08 June 2018 EASTBOURNE ROYAL HIPPODROME 01323 802020
9 June 2018 NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE 0844 871 7646
10 June 2018 BIRMINGHAM NEW ALEXANDRA THEATRE 0844 871 3011
*please note tickets for this venue will be on sale soon
