Oldest Theatre Performers. P J Proby Is Coming To My Local Theatre Later This Year

[gollob]

He is 80 years old . Are there any older performers still treading the boards
Can you believe the tickets are £25 , I saw him at his peak for £2.50 in 1964.

[Calicogirl]

Mike Nussbaum is 90 something I believe... and quite a few in their 80's- good on all of them :)

[Canary42]

Hope he doesn't split his trousers this time ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

I wonder if he's ever gone a day without that being mentioned?

[retrocop]

My father was a police officer and worked with PJ’s father. My sister met him when he did a concert in Toronto and PJ remembered her when they were kids at school.

[Calicogirl]

Are you Candaian Retro?

[woofgang]

Dick van Dyke is 92 so he has a way to go yet

[ABerrant]

"Can you believe the tickets are £25 , I saw him at his peak for £2.50 in 1964."

In 1964 the average weekly wage for a manual worker was around £16 for a 48 hour week. It would have taken 7.5 hours to earn £2.50 (£2 10s).

£25 is less than 3.5 hours of the National Minimum Wage.

[Old_Geezer]

Can only assume they all have the taxman on their backs.

[naomi24]

£25 is cheap for a theatre ticket. I saw him last year. A coarse man, a bit of a hillbilly, but a great performer. I got the impression he'd rather not be doing it though.... paying his rent seemed to be his impetus.

[ABerrant]

BTW typical ticket prices for such a concert in 1964 ranged from 5/- (25p) to 12/6 (62.5p)