Footlights
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Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. It was founded in 1883.
It grew in prominence in the 1960s, as a hotbed of comedy and satire, and continues to produce the regular, and very popular Smokers at the ADC Theatre; informal mixtures of sketches and stand-up.
It also produces regular plays and sketch shows, such as 2004's Daddy's Dead and the Spring Revue Cracking Up, as well as the tour show, Beyond A Joke. The current Footlights president is Simon Bird.
Notable entertainers, and other notable people, who were members, or who worked with, the Footlights include:
- Douglas Adams
- Clive Anderson
- Alexander Armstrong
- Pete Atkin
- Humphrey Barclay
- Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G")
- Cecil Beaton
- Eleanor Bron
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Graham Chapman
- John Cleese
- Peter Cook
- Jimmy Edwards
- Alan Fleming-Baird
- David Frost
- Stephen Fry
- Graeme Garden
- Mel Giedroyc
- Germaine Greer
- Norman Hartnell
- David Hatch
- Claude Hulbert
- Jack Hulbert
- Eric Idle
- Clive James
- Simon Jones
- Hugh Laurie
- Jonathan Lynn
- Rory McGrath
- Ben Miller
- Jonathan Miller
- David Mitchell
- Jimmy Mulville
- Richard Murdoch
- Bill Oddie
- Sue Perkins
- Jan Ravens
- Griff Rhys Jones
- Tony Slattery
- William Sutcliffe
- Emma Thompson
- Sandi Toksvig
- Robert Webb
- Rachel Weisz
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Categories: University of Cambridge | Cambridge Footlights | Theatre companies | British culture | British student societies
