London Musicals 1980-1984.pub - Over The Footlights
London Musicals 1980-1984.pub - Over The Footlights
London Musicals 1980-1984.pub - Over The Footlights
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ANDY CAPP<strong>London</strong> run: Aldwych <strong>The</strong>atre, September 29 th(99 Performances)Music: Alan PriceLyrics: Alan Price & Trevor PeacockDirector: Braham MurrayChoreographer: Sue LeftonMusical Director: Michael DixonProducer: Ray Cooney198220Cast: Tom Courtenay (Andy Capp),Val McLane (Florence Capp),John Bardon (Chalkie)Story: A musical story of Andy Capp,portraying the spongeing, boozing pigeonfancierwho hasn’t worked for 32 years, andsurrounding him with a group of cronies –Tom Courtenay & Val McLanehard-drinking, tart-chasing, sports-madhusbands avoiding or trying to outsmart theirhen-pecking, hard-working, huge-busted, clannish wives. At the end his long-suffering wife, Flo, actuallywalks out on Andy, leaving him to puzzle over the mystery of how toast gets itself cooked in the morning.Notes: Based on the Reg Smythe cartoon characters as featured in the “Daily Mirror”, the show had a grittyreality which didn’t sit too comfortably with its musical format, and an underlying bleakness with its portrait ofpoverty, unemployment, disillusion, and an irreconcilability between the male and female points of view. Formost of the critics the verdict was - it didn’t work. However, “Plays and Players” gave it their Best NewMusical of the Year Award!Photo by Donald CooperPOPPY<strong>London</strong> run: Barbican, September 25 th (in Repertoire – fixed season)Music: Monty NormanBook & Lyrics: Peter NichollsDirector: Terry HandsChoreographer: David ToguriCast: Roger Allam (Lin Tse-Tsi), Jane Carr (Queen Victoria), Tony Church (Tao-Kuan),Stephen Moore (Jack Idle), Julia Hills (Sally Forth), Geoffrey Hutchings (Lady Dodo),Bernard Lloyd (Obadiah Upward), Michael Gyngell, Susan Jane Tanner, David Whitaker,Christopher Hurst, Andrew Thomas-JamesStory: This was an indictment of the Opium Wars and the Britain’s treatment of the Chinese during the reignof Queen Victoria, and described the rape and pillage done by British forces in Peking. However, it was alltold in the style of aBritish pantomime: aprincipal boy playedby a girl, the Dameplayed by a man, apantomime horse, anda song-sheet.Photo by Donald CooperNotes: A revised andre-written versionopened at the Adelphiin November 1983.Julia Hills,Geraldine Garner, &Geoffrey Hutchings
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