Joanna Lumley announces first ever live tour

Joanna Lumley announces first ever live tour

The legendary Joanna Lumley will embark on her first ever live tour, IT’S ALL ABOUT ME, in autumn 2018.  Joanna will take to the road for the 30 date tour on 6 October at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall and then perform at major theatres in Ireland and across the UK, before finishing in Aylesbury on 10 November. Tickets will go on sale on Friday 1st December at 10am.

Joanna will take audiences through her hilarious and interesting adventures from her incredible career spanning more than four decades, recounting some never heard before stories. She will also be joined on stage by friend and producer Clive Tulloh, who will put to Joanna questions from the audience that they’ve always wanted to ask, making the show a unique and hilarious night to remember.

On announcing It’s All About Me, Joanna said: “The thought of this tour next year, travelling across the British Isles and Ireland, has completely taken over my waking hours. It’s utterly thrilling to start planning the stories I can tell, and the rapture (and gratitude, to be fair) with which I shall greet the audiences. Nothing like this has come my way before, and I may have to be dragged off with a hook at the end of each show. Oh people! This is especially for you from me, with masses of love. I think it will be fabulous.”

Joanna Lumley icon, national treasure, activist, comedy actress and all-round top girl is barely off our TV screens and appears to have been a permanent fixture in our sitting rooms since she burst onto our screens as Purdey in the New Avengers in 1976. Now in a nationwide tour she will take us through the random journey that started in London in the swinging 60’s. Beginning as Jean Muir’s house model and muse, progressing to becoming a full-blown photographic model, featuring in knitting patterns, mini-skirts, toothpaste commercials and the occasional front cover.

From there Joanna will share her stories of her acting career that includes Coronation Street, On the Buses, Dracula and as a brainwashed Bond Girl in Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Joanna’s breakthrough role was as Purdey, a part for which over 800 girls auditioned. Purdey propelled her to instant fame and created one of the “must-have” hairstyles of the 1970s – the Purdey bob. She became a pin-up figure for a generation of British males who grew up watching her as the high-kicking action girl.

Alongside iconic hairstyles Joanna started to develop a nice side line as adventurer and activist; popping up all over the globe she was often seen gasping at the Northern Lights, turning her bra into espadrilles and finding the source of the Nile.

Then as Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous she became a degenerate role-model for a generation. Winning two BAFTAs, Joanna emerged as one of the best comedy actresses of her generation. For 25 years the adventures of Patsy and Edina have sporadically lurched across our screens culminating in AbFab The Movie in 2016.

This intimate night with Joanna tells some of these tales and more as we gallop through almost 50 years in this business we call show.

Ticket prices from £29.50/£39.50/£59.50

Tickets available through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Tour Dates

Saturday 6th October 2018 – Belfast Waterfront Hall

Sunday 7th October 2018 – Dublin Bord Gais Theatre

Tuesday 9th October 2018 – Birmingham Symphony Hall

Wednesday 10th October 2018 – Newcastle Gateshead Theatre

Thursday 11th October 2018 – Glasgow SEC Armadillo

Friday 12th October 2018 – Edinburgh EICC

Saturday 13th October 2018 – Blackpool Opera House

Sunday 14th October 2018 – Salford The Lowry

Wednesday 17th October 2018 – Oxford New Theatre

Thursday 18th October 2018 – Bristol Hippodrome

Friday 19th October 2018 – Nottingham Royal Concert Hall

Saturday 20th October 2018 – Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre

Sunday 21st October 2018 – Cambridge Corn Exchange

Monday 22nd October 2018 – Ipswich Regent Theatre

Wednesday 24th October 2018 – Sheffield City Hall

Thursday 25th October 2018 – Southend Cliffs Pavilion

Friday 26th October 2018 – Leeds First Direct Arena

Saturday 27th October 2018 – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Sunday 28th October 2018 – York Barbican

Monday 29th October 2018 – London Palladium

Wednesday 31st October 2018 – Plymouth Pavilions

Thursday 1st November 2018 – Coventry Warwick Arts Centre

Friday 2nd November 2018 – Southampton 02 Guild Hall

Saturday 3rd November 2018 – Bournemouth BIC

Sunday 4th November 2018 – Portsmouth Guild Hall

Tuesday 6th November 2018 – Leicester De Montfort Hall

Wednesday 7th November 2018 – Blackburn King Georges Hall

Thursday 8th November 2018 – Brighton Dome

Friday 9th November 2018 – Northampton Derngate Theatre

Saturday 10th November 2018 -Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

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