"Funny stories from the man who (almost) managed Wham! A surprisingly poignant celebration." The Times What would you do if you discovered George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley rehearsing in a village hall before they were famous? Michael Burdett knows because thats what happened to him when he was a 19-year-old talent scout. He tried to get the music company he worked for to sign them as part of a ska band called The Executive. That didnt work out. But what happened next changed pop history forever. BEFORE FAME is the remarkable untold backstory of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, before they stormed the charts as Wham! It follows Edinburgh-award-winner Burdett as, 40 years later, he takes the recording they made together round the UK, photographing strangers listening to it. Told with wit, warmth, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour, it is, in Michaels words, a show about two musical geniuses and an idiot (spoiler: Michael is the idiot). Tickets www.beforefame.co.uk or via the Box Office on 020 7534 1744 You HAVE to see Before Fame. Beautifully told and very funny." Lucy Porter, comedian "I loved it, reminiscing about the time before Wham!, and a window on a vanished late 70s and early 80s world." Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph