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SUGGS MY LIFE STORY IN WORDS AND MUSIC
Written by Graham McPherson and Toby Follett. Directed by Owen Lewis
In SUGGS MY LIFE STORY IN WORDS AND MUSIC the Madness frontman takes to the stage in a hilarious, yet moving, one man tour de force playing to rave reviews.
The death of Suggs’ beloved cat on his fiftieth birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew. Stunned by what he learns Suggs is taken back to his childhood on the tough streets of 1970′s Soho, and his first appearance on Top of the Pops at the age of eighteen…
Is it a play? Is it stand up comedy? Is it Music Hall? Whatever it is hold on to your seats as Suggs goes on to stumble and plummet through the trap door of failure; then trampoline back up to catch the passing trapeze of show business success!
WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT AND UNCALLED FOR INTERJECTION FROM DEANO HIS LOYAL MANSERVANT-CUM-PIANIST.
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“Every time I have to fill out a form where it asks your occupation, I never know what to write,” confesses Graham “Suggs” McPherson. “I’ve never felt comfortable being described as a songwriter or a singer. But I’m a performer, for sure.” The lead singer with much-loved seven-piece ska pop band Madness sometime radio DJ and television host is about to embark on a solo theatrical one-man show, Live Suggs, in which…”  |
PRESS REVIEW SECTION
Read the following rave reviews and find out what the press think of
Suggs My Life Story in Words and Music…
Dominic Maxwell, The Times : Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London
“Suggs has natural comic timing and tells his story with wit and grace in this hugely enjoyable evening”.
Jessica Hayes, Time Out : Kings Head Theatre, Islington, London
“It was impossible not to be charmed by this one man show.”
Mark Lawson, The Guardian : Edinburgh Festival 2012, Queens Theatre
“My single most enjoyable and memorable experience at Edinburgh 2012 was Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music”
Simon Price, Sunday Independent : Orchard Theatre, Dartford
“Suggs is an effortlessly engaging raconteur”
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph : Live Suggs, Milton Keynes Theatre
“Suggs has a crack at stand-up? That’s been the arresting suggestion floated ahead of this brief, toe-in-the-water tour by the Madness front-man – and it sounded eminently plausible. Madness were the music-hall joker…”
