Brian Butterfield’s Call of Now Tour - UK Tour

[anxiousoctopus]

Saw this tonight and needed to make a thread because its genuinely hysterical. Peter Serafinowicz may play Brian Butterfield, but Brian is the only one of the two in the building (as in he doesn’t drop the act for a moment, even signing stuff in the lobby. You genuinely forget about Peter, it’s just Brian there.)

The show starred at 8pm and ended at 10pm, and if you want to do the meet and greet the line gets really long so you might not get out until 11pm.

For those wondering, they sell certificates for him to sign on the merch table (£20) - along with a Treat Day tote bag, a Buttertendo shirt, bonbonbonbons, a ButtCoin coin, and Butterfield Hotel slippers.

[theatrenerd]

I saw this too and thought it really was a brilliant, hilarious show business seminar.

I have been a fan of Peter Serafinowicz for a long time, especially of Brian Butterfield, and the show was just pure nostalgia from the daft humour of my YouTube watching schooldays. As I said in the Dr. Strangelove thread (before Steve Coogan was announced), I don't think he has done much live work before but he really has proved himself to be a brilliant performer. Would be interested to see if he does anymore.

He is however doing a date at the Hammersmith Apollo next year which will be quite a difference from the comedy clubs and small theatres he went round last month, but also I can't imagine it's a show he could physically do many nights of with the prosthetics and body suit as he was sweating a lot by the end (just thinking about what happened to Michael Crawford in The Woman in White). But if he doesn't then I am so glad I got to see it last month.

[theatrenerd]

More dates on sale 10am Wednesday

www.brianbutterfield.co.uk/

Grab your bonbonbonbons ready!