London Musicals 1980-1984.pub - Over The Footlights

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381984ON YOUR TOES (Revival)London run: Palace Theatre, June 12 th(539 Performances)Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Lorenz HartBook: Rodgers & Hart & George AbbottDirector: George Abbot, recreated by Peter WalkerChoreographer: George Balanchine,recreated by Donald SaddlerMusical Director: Timothy HiggsProducer: Michael White & Really Useful CoNatalia MakarovaCast: Natalia Markarova (Vera Baronova),Tim Flavin (Junior ), Siobhan McCarthy (Frankie),Kevin Owers (Sidney Cohn),Honor Blackman (Peggy Porterfield),John Bennett (Sergei )Nicholas Johnson (Konstantine Morrosine),Doreen Hermitage, Bunny May, Petra SiniawskiSongs: It’s Got to Be Love, There’s a Small Hotel, Too Good for the Average Man, Glad to Be Unhappy,Slaughter on Tenth AvenueStory: Junior Dolan has given up his vaudeville touring career and become a music teacher at theKnickerbocker University. His students include his girlfriend, Frankie, and Sidney Cohn, who has written ajazz ballet. Arts patron Peggy Porterfield decides to finance a production of thisballet, and uses her financial muscle to persuade Sergei Alexandrovitch, impresario ofthe visiting Russian Ballet to stage this work, now entitled “Slaughter on TenthAvenue”. Junior becomes involved both onstage and off with the prima ballerina,Vera Baronova. This causes trouble with Junior’s girlfriend, Frankie, and Vera’sregular partner, Morrosine, who tries to have Junior bumped off. However, all endshappily, with the couples back with their rightful partners.Notes: The original Broadway production (1936) and the London production(February 5th 1937 at the Coliseum) were both directed by George Abbott. The showwas revived on Broadway in 1983 with Natalia Makarova - again directed byGeorge Abbott - and once more he came to London to supervise this production. Notonly was it some kind of record to be reviving his own work after a 47 year gap, butat the time of this show he was an astonishing 97 years old—and definitely the oldestworking director in musical theatre. (He died in 1995, a few months before his 108thbirthday.)LITTLE ME (1 st Revival)London run: Prince of Wales Theatre, May 30th (334 Performances)Music: Cy ColemanLyrics: Carolyn LeighBook: Neil SimonDirector: Val MayChoreographer: Bob Fosse –recreated by John SharpeProducer: Bernard DelfontCast: Russ Abbot,Eileen Gourlay (Young Belle),Sheila White (Older Belle),Tudor DaviesSee Original London production:Cambridge Theatre, November 1964Credit UnknownRuss Abbott in two of the many disguises.
42 nd STREETLondon run: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane August 8 th (1,823 Performances)Music: Harry WarrenLyrics: Al DubinBook: Michael Stewart & Mark BrambleDirector: Gower Champion recreated byLucia VictorChoreographer: Gower Champion recreated by Karin Baker & Randy SkinnerMusical Director: Kevin AmosProducer: David Merrick with Helen MontaguCast: Clare Leach (Peggy Sawyer), Georgis Brown (Dorothy Brock),James Laurenson (Julian Marsh), Michael Howe (Billy Lawlor),Margaret Courtenay (Maggie Jones), Hugh Futcher, Catherine Terry198439Songs: Young and Healthy, Shadow Waltz, You’re Getting to be a Habit With Me, Dames, We’re in the Money,Lullaby of Broadway About a Quarter to Nine, Shuffle Off to BuffaloStory: Stage-struck chorus girl, Peggy Sawyer,from Allentown, Pennsylvania, gets her bigchance when the star, Dorothy Brock, breaks herankle during the show’s tryouts. The franticproducer, Julian Marsh, pushes Peggy onto thestage with the line “You’re going out a youngster,but you’ve got to come back a star”Photo by PhotoshopNotes: Based on the 1933 Warner Brothers film,the score was supplemented with additional songsfrom the catalogue of Warren and Dubin. It ranfor ten years on Broadway. During its London runJames Laurenson was replaced with FrankieVaughan.THE BOY FRIEND (2 nd Revival)London run: Old Vic , July 18 th (32 performances)Transferred to Albery Theatre, September 20 th (156 performances)Music & Lyrics : Sandy WilsonDirector: Sandy Wilson & Christopher HewittChoreographer: Dan SirettaMusical Director: Ray Cook/Charles Miller/Martin KochProducer: Cameron MackintoshCast: Rosemary Ashe (Hortense),Christine McKenna (Polly Browne),Simon Green (Tony),Bob Newent (Bobby van Husen),Linda-Mae Brewer (Maisie),Anna Quayle (Mme Dubonnet)This was a 30th Anniversary revival production, and had openedat Bromley and then played a season at the Royal AlexandraTheatre,Toronto, and Manchester before coming to the Old Vic.Mme Dubonnet was originally played by Glynis Johns, but shewas replaced before the show came to London.Notes: See Original London production, Wyndham’s, January1954First revival: Comedy Theatre, November 1967Photo by Michael Le Poet Trench
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