‘Don’t walk around with a map and camera, big straw hat and fat wallet’
How are ticket sales going for your London show, ‘All the Fun of the Fair’?
The West End is a bit flat at the moment. We’re getting good audiences, but
like most other shows we are having to sell lots of tickets as “two for
the price of one” offers. So I think given the recession it’s quite
hard to make money in the theatre at the moment.
How did your childhood experience influence your attitude to money?
I had a rough start in life. My dad worked as a docker, but he contracted TB
and spent a long time in hospital. Without any income my mother and I were
housed in an institution for the homeless that also doubled as a mental
hospital. It sounds horrific, but it was actually very interesting for me as
a little boy to wander through the corridors and curtained cubicles.
We lived in one cubicle and shared a washroom with the other residents. I
stayed there until I was about four years old and then the great news came
that the council had built us a prefabricated house. That was fantastic
because we had our own garden and it felt like Buckingham Palace in
comparison.
I picked up a strong work ethic from my parents because my dad used to come home with bleeding shoulders where he had been loading heavy items at the docks and mum went out to work as well. I would say the whole experience made me a bit frugal, or perhaps penny wise and pound-foolish. It certainly didn’t motivate me to pursue riches – all I really wanted to do was be a jazz drummer…
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