Bill Bailey returns with 'Vaudevillean', a show celebrating the vaudeville tradition with comedy, songs and musical skills.
Bill Bailey is playing the Regent Theatre on Tuesday 10 November, with his new show Vaudevillean.
It's a bit of a throwback. The title points to vaudeville, that pre-streaming, pre-TV, pre-cinema and pre-radio era of stage entertainment, and the show is built around it. The bill describes it as a celebration of that tradition, and the night is put together from comedy, songs and a range of multifarious skills. It's not just stand-up; there's music and a fair bit of variety in there, which is where the vaudeville thing comes from.
Bailey describes himself as a versatile multi-instrumentalist, multi-lingual performer and a modern Vaudevillean. He's born in Bath and was a founding member of The Rubber Bishops, and he's spent decades as one of Britain's top stand-up comedians. He won the Best Live Stand Up Award in 1999, spent six years as team captain on BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks, starred in the sitcom Black Books, fronted his own BBC2 series Is it Bill Bailey? and won series 18 of Strictly Come Dancing. If you've followed him for a while, you'll know the musical side of his act is a big part of it, and Vaudevillean leans into that.
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It's at the Regent Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday 10 November, starting at 8:00pm. Tickets start from £36.74.
