JOE Pasquale, the squeaky-voiced comedian and 2013 Dancing On Ice contestant, will give Sherlock Holmes the comedic makeover in the York-bound Ha Ha Holmes! tour this autumn.
A pipe-smoking Pasquale will lead the cast as the serial parodists embark on their most dangerous adventure yet, hunting down The Hound Of The Baskervilles, at the Grand Opera House on Sunday, October 27.
Pasquale will play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic sleuth alongside the show’s writer, Ben Langley, as Doctor Watson, while Andrew Fettes will multi-task as everyone else in the 7.30pm performance.
“There’s a beast on the moors, a crime to be solved, and with the Ha Ha team on the case, what can go right?” jests Langley.
“Has the beast bitten off more than it can chew when confronted by our crime-stopping team? Will Holmes find his deerstalker and will the deer be happy when he does? Stick some shag in your pipe and visit 221b Baker Street for the most gripping comic caper of the age.”
Pasquale is adding parodying Holmes to a CV that already reads: comedian; 2004 King of the Jungle in I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here; trained pilot; charity marathon runner; Open University degree student in Geosciences since 2011; and Dancing On Ice dance-off loser earlier this month.
Writer Langley has worked in London’s Covent Garden as a street performer for 17 years and won the Bristol Harbour Festival Street Performer of the Year award. He and Fettes co-founded the Ha Ha Boys comedy team, writing and touring the Ha Ha theatre shows since 2007.
Taken on the road by Jamie Wilson Productions, the Ha Ha brand has staged Ha Ha Hamlet at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe and Ha Ha Hitler at the East Croydon Warehouse and on tour in 2010. Ha Ha Holmes! originally opened in February 2011, before embarking on its first UK tour.
This “wonderfully ridiculous show” employs street theatre, slapstick, modern music, audience participation and familiar comic elements to investigate the humorous potential in Holmes and Watson.
• Tickets cost £17 to £19 on 0844 871 3024 or atgtickets.com/york
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