In 2009 he appeared off-Broadway in "The Lodger" at the Workshop Theatre (Harris Yulin directing). There he developed his one-man show called "Tribute", based on the "Ages of Man" by Sir John Gielgud. It was also performed at The Players, a theatrical club in New York City. The show played during the August 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival to excellent reviews. In March 2010, he performed "Tribute" at the Barron's Court Pub Theatre in London, receiving these reviews: " ... the whole show centres around a superb talent: not Gielgud's but that of George Innes. The veteran performer has a marvellously warming presence with a deep velvet voice that could make a line from Avenue Q sound profound ... "Tribute" really is a display of extraordinary talent." He performed the show at the Workshop Theatre in New York, touring westward to California.