{"id":7600,"date":"2014-07-03T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:12:47","slug":"sd-entertainment-by-arrangement-with-abhann-productions-presents-gay-byrne-%e2%80%93-live-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/07\/sd-entertainment-by-arrangement-with-abhann-productions-presents-gay-byrne-%e2%80%93-live-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Entertainment by arrangement with Abhann Productions presents GAY BYRNE \u2013 LIVE ON STAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lyric Theatre is proud to host a unique opportunity to spend some time in the presence of Ireland&#8217;s legendary broadcaster Mr Gay Byrne, as he reminisces about his life and times in a live performance on <strong>Tues 21<sup>st<\/sup> October at 7.45pm <\/strong>as part of the 2014 Ulster Bank Festival at Queens<strong>. <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gay-Byrne-004-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7602\" title=\"Gay Byrne 004 (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gay-Byrne-004-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The show, giving its first ever Northern Ireland performance, premiered in Dublin in 2011 will be performed at the Lyric Theatre as part of a short Irish tour and is an exclusive opportunity to enjoy Gay Byrne at his best in a live performance telling some of the greatest show-biz stories never told in an hilarious evening\u2019s entertainment, described as \u201c<em>a masterclass in comedy\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his five decade broadcasting career, Gay Byrne \u00a0helped steer\u00a0Ireland through its\u00a0difficult formative years in the 70s and 80s on both his RT\u00c9 morning radio show and the world record setting run of\u00a0 the Late Late Show (from 1962 to 1999) he introduced Ireland to modernity \u2013 and stood back to witness the brawl.<\/p>\n<p>From senior politicians to senior clergy to the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament, he has been a confessor figure to the good, the bad and the ugly. At 79, he\u2019s now in happy semi-retirement but during his exhilarating two hour plus show, he talks about all the extraordinary moments he has witnessed or been at the centre of. From secondhand Donegal tombstones to US president Calvin Coolidge to first meeting Kathleen Watkins on Dawson Street, he covers an array of the insightful, the intuitive and the ingenious.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss this chance to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of the stars and the star-makers with Ireland\u2019s foremost legendary broadcaster in his first solo stage show. Produced by John McColgan.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets priced \u00a320.00 are now on sale for this unique show with the king of broadcasting \u2013 Gay Byrne, <em>Live on Stage<\/em> on Tuesday 21<sup>st<\/sup> October are available from The Lyric Theatre Box Office, online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrictheatre.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.lyrictheatre.co.uk<\/a> and Tel: 028 9038 1081<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSuperb\u2026exhilarating\u2026ingenious\u2026a thoroughly enjoyable evening.\u201d <\/em>The Irish Times<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lyric Theatre is proud to host a unique opportunity to spend some time in the presence of Ireland&#8217;s legendary broadcaster Mr Gay Byrne, as he reminisces about his life and times in a live performance on Tues 21st October at 7.45pm as part of the 2014 Ulster Bank Festival at Queens. The show, giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/07\/sd-entertainment-by-arrangement-with-abhann-productions-presents-gay-byrne-%e2%80%93-live-on-stage\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}