Danny Rogers - The Future Stars - Season 6 - Edition 1

Danny named after the famous Danny Kaye comes from a theatrical family. His mother was a Royal Ballet and Bluebell Dancer and his father the late comedian Ted Rogers.  Danny first took to the stage after mimicking his father in the wings, leading him to play a part in Bernie Clifton’s act. Starting in the entertainment business, he wanted to learn the tricks of the trade and became a Butlin’s Redcoat, leading to summer seasons as an entertainer in Mallorca and Warner Leisure Hotels.  He studied at the University of Chichester, where he gained a degree in Musical Theatre where he played Mr. Peachum - The Beggars Opera, Emcee - Cabaret and The Wolf - Into the Woods. He also co-wrote a celebration of the work of Cole Porter and played the great man in Unmistakably Cole Porter (Chichester Festival Theatre).  Danny loves children’s theatre and has most recently toured across the country playing Baloo in The Jungle Book (UK tour), other children’s touring shows include Squirmtum in the CBeebies Television Show Tree Fu Tom Live and Big Bird and Telly Monster in Sesame Street’s Theatre Show Make a New Friend (International world tour). His appearances on television have been as a cowboy compère with Richard Cadell and Peter Andre in The Sooty Show’s - Wild Wild West (ITVLittleBe) and as a waiter in the Twirlywoos (CBeebies).Danny has presented shows for Sooty’s Bake off and The Sooty Show (UK holiday parks tour), Freddo the Frog’s Birthday Party and Story time with Caramel Bunny (Cadbury World). In 2019, he went back to ‘The Good Old Days’ as a solo entertainer in Old Time Music Hall produced by the Player’s Theatre Music Hall Company and directed by Jan Hunt (The Museum of Comedy). Also playing Jeffrey in the rock musical Godspell (Brentwood Centre). His latest project, Bin & Gone, a one man play about his late father, has received a great success at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2018/19. From this success the show has toured the UK and Danny plans to take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe. He is one half of a double act with comedy partner Jamie Clarricoates called Danny and Jamie and with their combination of comedy sketches, songs and dancing, they were thrilled to be asked to perform last year at the 'Paradise for Old Pro’s' at Brinsworth House. Pantomime being his favourite season and certainly no stranger to it, having played parts across the country as Seadog Billy - Pirates of the Pavilion (Weymouth Pavilion Theatre), Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Tivoli Theatre), Idle Jack - Dick Whittington (Leatherhead Theatre), Jack -Jack and the Beanstalk (North Pier Theatre, Blackpool), Aladdin - Aladdin (Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight), Idle Jack - Dick Whittington (Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Anne’s), Dandini - Cinderella (Grand Opera House, York) and PC Pong - Aladdin (Malvern Festival Theatre).Danny is a credit to this business of ours and still to be discovered on Television but that I'm sure is just around the corner.Welcome to the Show Danny Rogers