A little charade : the portraits at HL concerts

[vicpei]

Hugh Laurie has been performing in concerts with a portrait close to his piano. It looks like they appeared when he started playing in Europe. The portrait is always someone British, with an obvious or a more difficult-to-find link to the place he is playing at. Is it a personal joke? Is it a game with the audience? How (and why) did he come up

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[novemba]

Hi! I don't know very much, but...

Kyiv, Minsk - Queen Victoria
St.Petersburg, Moscow - Terry-Thomas
London - Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin
Berlin - Eric Sykes
Vienna - Norman Wisdom as Norman Pitkin

[0alfa0]

Minsk - Queen
Saint-Petersburg - Terry-Thomas
Moscow - not Queen but Peter Sellers as Dr. StrangeLove
Salford - Stephen Lewis
London - Leonard Rossiter
Paris Olympia - Burt Kwouk
Berlin - Eric Sykes
Zurich - Eric Morecambe
Vienna - Norman Wisdom

[flippet]

Ooh, that is fun. I'm unlikely to be able to help much, but I'll love to see what you come up with.

I'd guess it's more of a private/in-joke, but it would be fun to somehow post a more complete list of your/our guesses somewhere, like on the hughlaurieblues page or twitter, where someone connected to the tour may be more likely to see it. You know, kind of treat it like a game, even if it wasn't originally intended to be interactive. :-)

[vicpei]

It's been posted on Twitter :)

[flippet]

Ha ha, I don't use twitter, so, my mistake! :-)

[allthingsdecent]

You should, dammit! xo, atd

[flippet]

Bwah ha ha.

You've seen my replies to you - 140 characters cannot hold me!

*busts out into soliloquy*

[0alfa0]

once more
Frankfurt - Les Dawson