Michael had the opportunity of plugging the up and coming events booked at the Garrison Hotel in Sheffield including their hilarious tribute to Father Ted and Fawlty Towers shows.  Laughlines performed Father Ted on Friday 03rd September and again it proved to be a thoroughly entertaining evening with huge groups of the audience coming over after the show taking photographs and giving us wonderful feedback…they loved it!

I actually thought that my Irish accent was pretty basic but after listneing to Jimmy’s attempt live on air last week, it must have made mine sound great…keep practising Jimmy! It was great fun talking about the Father Ted tribute show and how it all got started, where we perform it and how it is recieved etc…

The show actually has a bigger following than you can imagine…and covers a massive age group from late teens to people well in their seventies.  It is actually one of my mothers favourite comedy’s of all time and she is eighty this year!

The next Father Ted show is on Friday 24th September at Wakefield Town Hall, Wakefield… Don’t miss this rare treat! 

Laughlines Director and actor Michael Wilson-Green was interviewed last week on the Stephanie Abrams Travellers 411 Radio Show.  Stephanie was intrigued about Laughlines and in particularly our Fawlty Towers tribute show which we were performing on the 07th and 08th August at the Beech Hill Country House Hotel this year.  The Hotel is famous regarding it’s history as the house used to be a post for senior marines and officers in the second world war, they were stationed there to stop any German U boats attacking Europe through the North Atlantic.  The hotel is also famed for visits from powerful people including, Teddy Kennedy and Bill & Hilary Clinton who stayed there while in power as Presidents!

Michael was asked about how the company started up 13 years ago and general questions about the Fawlty Tower show.  After performing the Fawlty Towers show at the Beech Hill Country House Hotel the team yet again received a standing ovation and encores to come back!   It was an amazing show which was attended by a wonderful interactive audience.

Laughlines next performance at the Beech Hill Country House Hotel is at Christmas where Laughlines will be offering up festive versions of Fawlty Towers and Father Ted  on the 14th 15th and 16th December.  Advice is to book early as they sell out very quickly!

Thank you to Guy Press, Johnny Hansler and Vickie Holden…Guy has performed in Laughlines comedy waiters, comedy paparazzi photographers, comedy murder mysteries and more recently as Manuel in our Fawlty Towers tribute show.  Johnny Hansler is an old hand and has played Basil Fawlty on numerous occasions with stunning effect, the feedback has been brilliant and he continues to excel as this character!  Johnny Hansler is famed for his role as Peter Cook in ‘The After life of  Cook & Moore’ which won critics acclaim.  Vickie Holden has recently joined up and played Sybil Fawlty and has made an encouraging start…  Other popular Laughlines actors who need a mention include, Ruth Urqhart, Nicola Vincent, Gemma Hepworth, Robin Simpson and Alan Brent, we look forward to working with all of them on many more events!

The Laughlines Actors profiles page will be updated soon with all these wonderful actors!

Laughlines are all set for visiting Northern Ireland next week in the beautiful city of Derry.  Once again we are entertaining at the Beech Hill Country House Hotel, this hotel offers wonderful food and is the perfect setting for all Laughlines themed entertainment.  On Friday 06th August we are performing our ever popular Tribute to Father Ted Show, this hilarious event includes all the typical irony, featuring, Father Ted, Dougal, Father Jack, Mrs Doyle and special guest star, Bishop Brennan!  The evening will kick off with Father Jacks wake and then extend into a fabulous night of comedy fun including, the fixed raffle, the inter priests ready steady go X factor contest, Ted’s Mr. & Mrs. contest, Father Dougal’s exorcism class, Father Ted’s confession box, the priests cabaret, Mrs. Doyle’s river dance class and the Craggy Island disco…   Professional actors… John Tearney, Lisa Howard, Peter Dineen and Michael Wilson-Green will be doing the honours of taking on the characters and delivering a highly amusing show!

On Saturday 07th August the Laughlines team will continue with their famous tribute to Fawlty Towers show - the team have been performing this event for over 12 years now and it is still proving to be the peoples favourite!  Laughlines are the UK’s original tribute to Fawlty Towers company and this is our first visit to Ireland since last September…  Both events are looking like sell outs!

Beech Hill have erected a huge marquee just like last year, as these shows could have been sold out two to three times over!  Professional sound equipment is being used as usual, so everybody gets to hear and the Father Ted show will be filmed.

If you are lucky enough to be attending next week then we will look forward to seeing you there for a great crack!

Enjoy!

The Laughlines team impress everyone with their musical talents...

Robin Gobb (One of the Gee Gees) assists in the finale' Dancing Queen... Laughlines organised the props, the sound, the music, the casino and the table decorations...Gillian Form of ABB commented that the feedback from their clients was amazing! This was certainly the best show yet, an absolute corker!

This show is selling fast, not surprisingly as it is highly amusing, immensely entertaining and the singing is excellent!

The event can be performed as a murder mystery event with all the singing and musical trimmings or purely as an ABBA Night - ‘Mamma Mia’

This is a brand new stage set comedy play performed in-between courses and is ideal for corporate events, specifically tailored for clients who prefer to have little, or non interactive entertainment!

The play was written and directed by John Tearney of Laughlines and all credit to John as it was an instant hit with our client, the Seddon Group!  This comedy is based around foggy’s funeral and his last dying wishes for his friends…Compo, Cleggy and new recruit Wing Commander Davies!  Old favourites were there of course with the likes of Nora Batty & Howard and Pearl.  It really was well received by our client who commented on it being, brilliant fun and a fantastic night all round.   The room was set up with a stage and a Yorkshire themed backdrop of the dales and rolling hills, a mini bar for a pub scene and a tin bath which doubled up as foggy’s coffin and an old aeroplane for Compo!  Being a Yorkshire theme the scene would not have been completed without the use of beautiful white roses surrounded by crystals and tea lights, we also had four huge flower pedastal displays which look amazing!

This new show will be offered to other clients around the country…it’s a lovely piece of dinner theatre incorporating, comedy, music, singing and it is first class entertainment.

Thanks to our fabulous professional actors…John Tearney, Nick Chadwin, Alan Brent, Rodney Paulden, Rachael Pennell and Ruth Urqhart for their highly polished performances.

Flowers were arranged by the wonderfully talented Kate Sullivan who worked solidly with Louise all day.

If you are interested in stage set comedy dinner theatre, then please contact… Michael Wilson Green, Director, Laughlines Ltd on 0845 170 1600.

Nine hundred guests are attending  the event a week next Friday and they will be in for some special treatment from the Laughlines crew!  The team will be obviously need powerful sound equipment for this one and will have tie clip mics and hand held microphones to address and impress the crowds.

This will be the biggest sell out charity event that we have attended and performed at in our history, so we are really looking froward to it, but also the fact that we will hopefully encourage to raise a vast amount of money for the charity.

Charity’s are welcome to call Michael Wilson-Green on 0845 170 1600 to discuss what we can offer you regarding entertainment and various themes…

We look forward to hearing from you!

The client was ABB Engineering Services, a regular and important customer to our company, we wanted to not just give them a fabulous fun night of entertainment, but to provide them with an impressive room and lasting memories!  We did just that…guests arrived at 7.00pm prompt, the clouds had dissapeared and the sun was shining brightly, the band were playing ABBA tunes in the background and Laughlines ABBA characters were meandering their way around the guests in the beautiful gardens.

The function room was dressed in a very 1970’s funky fashion mixed with contemporary lighting…LED’s spots and wildtech lights providing colourful moving images.  The tables were various colours all coordinated to create a brilliant effect!

The Laughlines team presented the audience with an array of comedy and songs singing live they belted out tunes from the past including, Portaloo, their first ever hit, which was about Benny being stuck in a Portaloo and then Super Dooper (A tribute to the Swedish Super Dooper Bra) and finally Mamma Mia!  Some of the Laughlines actors came back as the Gee Gees the tribute act to the Bee Gees (Rank outsiders)   and sang ‘How Deep is Your Glove’ this song was revolving around Barry Gobb and his finger fetish!!!

Joining the Gee Gees was the tribute act to Alvin Stardust Alvin Sawdust (A carpenter from Swansea) who sang ‘My Crooked Screw’

Anyway someone got murdered of course and the whodunit began…awards were given out for the best solution to the murder and the best limerick competition and and a special Oscar for the best contributing actor was presented to Hugh Janus Manager of Bjorn Again Again, the tribute band to the tribute band to ABBA!  ”Confused…bloody hell, I am”…

We finished with a themed casino night…this certainly was one of those unforgettable evenings and not just due to the fact that it had been a 19 hour working day, but to the fact that I had enjoyed the entertainment just as much as everyone else.

Pictures and film footage of this event are due to follow shortly…

“A fantastic night, just brilliant”  ”We have already thought of the theme for next year” Peter Hunt  - ABB

“An absolute corker of a show and one of your best” Gillian Form - ABB

A past client phoned me today, we entertained her at her 40th Birthday bash around 5 years ago and now we are to entertain at their company Summer ball.

Fond memories for all of us, but also the opportunity to have more fun & laughs in the near future!

After the first initial shock of Basil Fawlty appearing in the bar everyone started to enjoy classic sketches and a full on interactive comedy night…Well, the presidents must have enjoyed it as they were buying us drinks in the bar all night and couldn’t stop talking about the show.

Another great audience and very interesting people…many thanks to Masquerade Productions who booked us with their clients, we hope to work with you on many other events.

Pity I didn’t get the grand suite to stay in - it was just for changing into costume etc…. but we ended up in a lovely bed and breakfast down the road, breakfast consisted of one small piece of bacon, an extra runny egg and a chipolata sausage about the size of a twigglet!   Never mind I had a packet of hula hoops in the car and a bag of M & S mint crumbles for on the way home!  I should be on flipping commission here, naming all these company brands!!