‘An Audience with Wayne Sleep’ national tour starts on Sunday 27th March in Blackpool at The Grand Theatre

Our highly successful ‘An Audience with…’ series continues with Wayne Sleep.

For the first time, Wayne Sleep embarks on a UK tour to discuss his glittering career spanning five decades, with a little bit of dance and the unique opportunity of a Q&A in the second half of the show.

From an early age, Wayne was enrolled to a dance school where he studied tap and jazz, and thereupon went on to study ballet where he gained a Leverhulme Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School, and joined the Royal Ballet after graduating. 

Dame Ninette De Valois, the founder of the Royal Ballet, described Wayne as ‘…the greatest virtuoso dancer the Royal Ballet has ever produced’.  

Using his own rare film footage and photos, Wayne will describe how he became a Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet with numerous roles specially created for him including Ashton, MacMillan, de Valois, Layton, Nureyev, Gillian Lynne, and Neumeier. Wayne then moved on to star in roles at the West End, founding his own dance company, and touring the world with it in his show Dash.

His first steps into the world of film and TV are illustrated with rarely seen clips which cover his own TV series The Hot Shoe Show, the prestige of being a special guest on The Morecambe and Wise Show, starring alongside Sean Connery, and all of the off-camera gossip about The Real Marigold Hotel. He also established a world record for doing an entrechat-douze, a jump with 12 beats of the feet, on the television programme ‘Record Breakers’; a record which still stands today.

Bringing it all up to the present, Wayne will discuss his recent appearances in Celebrity Reality shows such as I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, Strictly Dance Fever, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Come Dine with Me, and many more. He will also talk about his long-standing association with the Royal Family, including his relationship with Princess Margaret and his close personal friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales.

Finally, any evening with Wayne Sleep wouldn’t be complete without a step or two and once again you’ll not be disappointed.

Tour Dates and Venues

Blackpool - The Grand Theatre - Sunday 27th March 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-wayne-sleep 

Stafford - Gatehouse Theatre, Main Auditorium - Thursday 31st March 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk/events/an-audience-with-wayne-sleep/ 

Sturminster Newton - The Exchange - Friday 22nd April - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://theexchange.savoysystems.co.uk/TheExchange.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsProgramme_940378 

Spalding - South Holland Centre - Friday May 6th 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.southhollandcentre.co.uk/whats-on/view/an-evening-with-wayne-sleep 

Weston Super Mare - The Playhouse - Tuesday 18th May 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/Playhouse-Theatre/Ticket/011e0583-c183-ec11-aa50-88c55a3ba6fa/an-audience-with-wayne-sleep/959804

Taunton - Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre - Saturday 28th May 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.tacchi-morris.com/an-audience-with-wayne-sleep/#content

Paignton - Palace Theatre - Sunday 29th May 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk/shows/an-evening-with-wayne-sleep/ 

Tamworth - Assembly Rooms - Wednesday 30th March 2022 - 7.30 PM
Booking link: https://www.tamworthartsandevents.co.uk/