Be Like Billy?
Schedule
Thu, 12 Jun, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+12:00Location
TSB Showplace | New Plymouth, TK
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Right Royal Cabaret Festival is returning 12-15 June, and we're kicking things off with a bang, with our hero show, Be Like Billy? sponsored by Connect Legal Taranaki. Billy T is a legendary New Zealand comedian and cultural icon.
Join the award-winning entertainer, Rutene Spooner as he shares his personal relationship with his childhood hero, Billy T. Infused with music and humour, Be Like Billy? speaks to our national identity, touching on what being Māori, being a performer and being a Kiwi meant in the 80s, and what it means now.
Featuring the flashest southern showband The Tekīra Mutton Birds, Be Like Billy? strums up all new and original waiata, garage party classics and old-school hits from the likes of Uncle Howie, The Prince of Jandels and Te legend, Te master, Te chuckling funny-fala.
Be Like Billy? is everything but an impersonation show. Can you Be Like Billy without being the butt of the joke?
“Cheeky, cheerful, charming, amusing, musical – and moving” – Theatre Review | Lindsay Clark
“Spooner lays out this complexity for us in a show that starts with joy and celebration, with nostalgia, then pivots to something more complex when the audience is confronted with the division between laughing at and laughing with.” – Flat City Field Notes | Erin Harrington
“Be Like Billy? will surely go down as a true taonga of Aotearoa’s theatre history.” - Backstage Christchurch | Belinda Cullen Reid
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Where is it happening?
TSB Showplace, 92 -100 Devon Street West,New Plymouth, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
