LEIGH FRANCIS MY 1ST TIME TOUR THE BAFTA-AWARD WINNING COMEDIAN ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER LIVE TOUR FOR

2024

BAFTA-Award winning comedian, Leigh Francis, is heading out on his first ever live tour 'My First Time'. Leigh's characters and sketches have kept millions of people around the UK laughing for years, and now he's stepping out as himself on a UK tour, opening at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trenton Friday 1 March 2024.

Joining Leigh will be his favourite characters, all brought to life in a live environment for the very first time ever. From Keith Lemon, Bear and Avid Merrion to 'David Dickinson', 'Ant and Dec' andMyrtle, this tour will be packed full of hilarious sketches with buckets of audience interaction.

From London's iconic Palladium to the Liverpool Philharmonic, Leigh and his characters are ready to assemble and give people a night to remember: "Hey, really exciting news! Well exciting for me! I hope it’s exciting for you! Or at least provokes some sort of interest! I mean, just look how many exclamation marks there is in this quote! It’s definitely news with exciting intent! So what is this exciting news? I’m doing my first ever tour! Never done one before. It’s gonna have masks in it! The Bear, Avid Merrion, Amanda Holden’s Gran, not her actual gran but me playing her. I’ll also be playing Keith Lemon; I look just like him! It’s me doing all the characters I do that hopefully have the intent to provoke hilarity! So many exclamation marks, and the word ‘intent’ and ‘provoke’ twice! I’m excited! Come see ME being other people LIVE for the first time! It’ll be your first time and my first time! Hence the title of the tour MY FIRST TIME! (There’s another exclamation mark) how exciting!" Leigh Francis

Tickets will go on sale to TheatreCard members at 10am on Thursday 6 July.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 7 July.

Tickets will be available online at www.atgtickets.com/stoke.