Wisdom flops in Auckland
’A Auckland The Norman Wisdom silver jubilee show at His Majesty’s Theatre has been cancelled — and so has the rest of its 30-day tour of New Zealand, the Press Association reports from Auckland. It folded after Friday night’s presentation — the second of a scheduled 10show season.
The supporting acts from Australia are returning home. Some have already gone. Mr Wisdom and Tony Fayne have stayed on.
The show’s producer, Mr Walton Martin, said
yesterday new venues were being negotiated for
Mr Wisdom and Mr Fayne and it was expected they would appear on stage again in New Zealand. Attempts were being made to book them into cabaret. The custodian at His Majesty’s, Mr Russell Waite,'said that in eight years at the theatre, he could not recall a show being abandoned so
quickly. Some did not make any, or much, money but they normally carried on for a while. About GO persons attended Friday’s perform-
ance. Future bookings were dismally small.
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