About This Show

Get out the Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirts and boater’s caps! Pat Dailey is bringing a taste of summer to the dead of winter. The man they call the “Prince of Put-in-Bay”, the “Jimmy Buffet of the North” and the “Great Lakes Troubadour”, makes his return to Playhouse Square with his legendary one-man portable party. Back by popular demand for the third time in two years, the Nebraska-born-St. Louis-reared-Great Lakes-adopted son had been a regular saloon act back in the late Seventies at the old Bobby Mcgee’s on Euclid Avenue across the street from where he’ll now perform at the Allen Theatre. Claiming that his concerts are for “mature audiences…and boaters!,” Dailey lives up to such review headlines as “Big, Bad, Bawdy Balladeer” and “Lewd, Crude and Funky”. Yet it’s not all drinking songs, lust and singing about Put-in-Bay or “Get Your Ass to Cleveland” that Dailey is delivering these days. Has he mellowed? Not so much “mellowed” as “expanded” his musical repertoire, as evidenced by the Children’s album he recorded, co-written with Shel Silverstein.

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Dates: One Night Only: January 10, 2004