Having toured the national gig circuit with his band, Benjamin Bloom started work on a theatre-based project named after his most successful single to date, "Weird and Wonderful".
[4] The show based around Blooms songbook and featuring cabaret and circus acts, big screen projection debuted at the New Wolsey Theatre in March 2013 [5] to both commercial and critical acclaim, with a sell out performance.
With the success of his debut show, Bloom was asked to perform under The Big Top in Christchurch Park, Ipswich as part of the Ip-Art Festival,[6] in June 2013 with a second sell out show and followed the performance with two nights at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe festival.
In April 2014, Bloom took an improved version of Weird and Wonderful to the Colchester Arts Centre,[7] again selling out the venue which was now narrated by Hugo Myatt, once the presenter of cult 1980s TV show Knightmare.
Having sold out four successive shows, Bloom was confirmed to play at the Ipswich Corn Exchange on 21 June 2014.