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COMPANY London run: Her Majesty’s, January 18th (344 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

Book: George Furth

Director: Harold Prince

Choreographer: Michael Bennett

Musical Director: Gareth Davies Producers: Harold Prince & Richard Pilbrow

Cast: Larry Kert (Robert), Elaine Stritch (Joanne), Donna McKechnie (Kathy),

Marti Stevens (Sarah), Lee Goodman, J.T. Cromwell

Songs: The Little Things You Do Together, You Could Drive a Person Crazy, Another

Hundred People, Getting Married Today, What Would We Do Without You, Barcelona,

The Ladies Who Lunch, Being Alive.

Story: The story of five married couples and a

bachelor, Robert. They all love him deeply and

want to see him married. At the end of the show,

he’s ready to get married. (In many ways it’s a

portrait of the social mores, concerns and anxieties

of a certain affluent segment of New Yorkers –

and is a mixture of revue and book musical)

Notes: With its skeletal sets, elevators, stairways

and projections and its seamless joining together

of disparate stories and scenes, this was very

different in style and content from the standard

musical theatre. The Broadway run was nearly

twice as long as London’s, though over the years

the reputation of this show has grown in the UK.

THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Revival) London run: Prince of Wales, February 10th

Transferred to Piccadilly Theatre April 10th

(c.165 Performances)

Music: Kurt Weill

Lyrics & Book: Bertolt Brecht

Director: Tony Richardson

Choreographer: Eleanor Fazan

Musical Director: Marcus Dods

Cast: Joe Melia (Macheath), Ronald Radd (Peachum),

Hermione Baddeley (Mrs Peachum),

Vanessa Redgrave (Polly- Prince of Wales),

Helen Cotterill (Polly – Piccadilly)

Barbara Windsor (Lucy Brown),

Annie Ross (Jenny), Arthur Mullard, Miriam Margoyles

This was in an adaptation by Hugh MacDiarmid

Notes: See Original London production, Royal Court, February 1956.

Larry Kert and Company

Barbara Windsor & Vanessa Redgrave

Credit Unknown

Photo by Zoe Dominic

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THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS (4th Revival) London run: Palace Theatre, April 29th (c.96 Performances)

Music: H. Fraser-Simson

Lyrics: Harry Graham

Book: Frederick Lonsdale

Director: Emile Littler

Choreographer: Malcolm Goddard Producer: Emile Littler

Cast: Lynne Kennington (Teresa), Gordon Clyde (Baldassare),

Neville Jason (Beppo), Jimmy Thompson (Antonio),

Janet Mahoney (Vittoria) , Jimmy Edwards (General Malona),

Susan Maudsley (Angela Malona)

Songs: Live for Today, My Life is Love, Love Will Find a Way,

A Paradise for Two, A Bachelor Gay

Story: The story opens in the mountain hideout of Baldassare and his

brigands. Teresa, who loves the bandit chief, is arrested by General

Malona, the retiring Governor of Santo, and her release has been promised

on condition that Baldassare gives himself up. Baldassare, however,

disguises himself as the new Governor and plans to take Teresa away with him. Things go wrong when the

bandit becomes attracted to Malona’s daughter, Angela, and Teresa, in a jealous rage, exposes her lover.

Baldassare and his men are sentenced to Devil’s Island, but the repentant Teresa helps them all escape.

Notes: The original London production at Daly’s Theatre in 1917 was a huge success for José Collins (the

daughter of legendary music-hall star Lottie Collins) and ran for 1,352 performances. The first revival was

1921 (again with José Collins), the second in 1930 with Anne Croft), and the third in 1942 with Sylvia Cecil.

This 1972 revival was a revised version with additional book by Emile Littler incorporating additional music

by Rudolf Friml and others.

GONE WITH THE WIND London run: Drury Lane, May 3rd (398 Performances)

1972

Gordon Clyde & Jimmy Edwards

Photo by Tom Hustler

Photo by Barnet Saidman

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Photo by Barnet Saidman

GONE WITH THE WIND London run: Drury Lane, May 3rd (398 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: Harold Rome

Book: Horton Foote

Director-Choreographer: Joe Layton

Musical Director: Ray Cook Producer: Harold Fielding

Cast: June Ritchie (Scarlett O’Hara), Harve Presnell (Rhett Butler),

Robert Swann (Ashley Wilkes), Patricia Michael (Melanie Hamilton),

Isabelle Lucas (Mammy), Doreen Hermitage (Belle Watling),

Bonnie Langford (Bonnie)

Songs: Bonnie Blue Flag, Bazaar Hymn, Two of a Kind, Tomorrow is

Another Day, Atlanta Burning, A Southern Lady, Bonnie Gone, It Doesn’t

Matter Now.

Story: The beautiful, selfish Southern Belle, Scarlett O’Hara, has her choice

of beaux from all the neighbouring estates in the cotton-rich plantations of the Old South. Though she sets her

heart on the unobtainable Ashley Wilkes, her most passionately turbulent love affair is

with the dashing blockade runner, Rhett Butler – a relationship that sees them through

the American Civil War itself and the period of Reconstruction which follows.

Notes: This epic-scale musical began as “Scarlett” in Tokyo , consisting of two separate

4 hour shows – each one running six months. The Japanese-American production,

intended for Broadway, would be cheaper to launch in London. Translated, renamed

and shortened – though still nearly four hours long - it was generally well received, and

June Ritchie received rave notices. The production was very spectacular, with the

burning of Atlanta and other set pieces gaining enormous praise. However the main

criticism was that if you hadn’t read the novel or seen the film, you wouldn’t really

understand what was going on. In August 1973 a revised production opened its pre-

Broadway tour in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but received such a critical drubbing

that it never got beyond those dates

June Ritchie & Harve Presnell

1972

Photo by Barnet Saidman

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TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS London run: Cambridge Theatre, May 9th (76 Performances)

Music: Chris Andrews

Lyrics & Book: Joan and Jack Maitland

Director: Peter Coe

Choreographer: Leo Kharibian

Musical Director: Alan Braden Producer: Gordon Mills & Harold Davidson

Cast: Adam Walton (Tom Brown), Christopher Guard (Flashman),

Judith Bruce (Mary Penrose), Ray C.Davis (Obadiah), Trudi van Doorn (Margery),

Roy Dotrice (Dr Arnold), Richard Willis (East), Russell Grant

Songs: I Like My Children Around, Three Acres and a Cow, Six of the Best, The Ballad of

the Great White Horse, If I Had a Son, One for your Nose, In the Swim

Story: Arriving at Rugby School, Tom is befriended by fellow

schoolboy, East, but picked on by the school bully, Flashman. Mary

Penrose, the school matron, is engaged to one of the masters, Mr

Bird, but not sure if he is the right man for her and, below stairs, the

porter Obadiah and his girlfriend Margery dream of owning their

own farm.

Dr Arnold, the headmaster, is impressed when Tom refuses to 'tell'

on Flashman’s bullying, and ponders the question: what makes a

man? Mary dreams of having a son of her own, and Obadiah and

Margery dream of a farm in Warwickshire. A group of gipsies

teach Tom the story of The ballad of the Great White Horse, which

encourages him to stand up to and to defeat Flashman. Mary realises

that Dr Arnold is her man while the whole school celebrates the

Tom’s bravery.

Notes: Although based on Thomas Hughes’s famous novel, this

was not quite the same story: Dr Arnold’s daughter had disappeared

from the plot, replaced with a new character, Mary, the Matron at

Rugby School, and a comedy porter and maid. With a large cast of

young boys, this was aimed at the “Oliver” market, but it didn’t

really work and came off rather quickly.

1972

Roy Dotrice and Judith Bruce

Credit Unknown

Gone with the Wind

Photo by Barnet Saidman

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TRELAWNEY London run: Sadlers Wells, June 27th (177 Performances)

Transferred to Prince of Wales, August 3rd

Music: Julian Slade

Book & Lyrics: Aubrey Woods & George Rowell

Director: Val May

Choreographer: Bob Stevenson

Musical Director: Neil Rhoden Producer: Cameron Mackintosh & Veronica Flint-Shipman

Cast: Hayley Mills (Rose Trelawney- Sadlers Wells)

Gemma Craven (Rose Trelawney-Prince of Wales),

John Watts (Arthur Gower), Elizabeth Power (Avonia),

Ian Richardson (Tom Wrench), Betty Benfield (Mrs Telfer),

Brendan Barry (James Telfer), Timothy West (Sir William- Sadlers Wells), Max

Adrian (Sir William – Prince of Wales)

Songs: Walking On, Ever Of Thee I’m Fondly Dreaming, On Approval, Old

Friends, The One Who Isn’t There, We Can’t Keep Them Waiting, This Time

Story: Pantomime performer Rose Trelawney leaves Sadlers Wells to marry the upper-class Arthur Gower. Tom

Wrench, secretly in love with her, is especially sad to see her go. Rose finds it difficult to settle in. and when

Arthur’s uncle, Sir William, objects to visits from her actor friends, she walks out and returns to the theatre.

However, she has changed and she can no longer play pantomime like she used to. Out of work and penniless, she

moves into theatrical digs. Meantime Arthur has disappeared and Sir William visits Rose to ask if she knows where

he has gone. She doesn't, but, seeing her financial difficulties, he agrees to fund Tom Wrench’s new play which has

a starring part for Rose. During first rehearsals, Sir William is watching when the new leading man enters and he

turns out to be none other than Arthur , now treading the boards. Sir William and Arthur are reconciled and Arthur

and Rose can look forward to a splendid future together.

Notes: There were a number of cast changes from Sadler’s Wells. Unfortunately the Prince of Wales was only

available for a limited run, and no other suitable theatre could be found. It was too expensive to put the show on

hold until a theatre could be found, so it came off after 177 shows.

SMILIN’ THROUGH London run: Prince of Wales, July 5th (28 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: John Hanson

Book: John Hanson and Constance Cox

Director-Choreographer: David Gardiner

Musical Director: Derek Taverner Producer: Leslie Grade

Cast: John Hanson (John Carteret), Lauverne Gray (Maureen/Kathleen), Glyn

Worsnip (Kenneth/Jimmy), Carol Doree, Freddie Eldrett, Gerry Binns

Songs: Give Me Your Hand, You Who Have Never Known Love

Story: In England around the year 1900, John Carteret is still mourning the death of his love, Maureen Clare, killed

on the day they were to be married, thirty-eight years earlier. Maureen's sister has just died, leaving her 5-year-old

daughter, Kathleen, and John has agreed to take care of the young orphan. The action flashes forward 15 years and

Kathleen is the very image of Maureen. Caught in a sudden shower she runs for shelter in a deserted old mansion,

where she meets its owner, an American named Kenneth Wayne who has come to England to fight in the war. They

soon fall in love. But when John finds out, to Kathleen's surprise, he forbids her from seeing Kenneth. He explains

that it was Kenneth's father, Jimmy, who was the cause of Maureen’s death, and he is determined Kathleen will not

be similarly wronged by a member of the Wayne family.

Notes: Based on the stage play and film version by Jane Murfin and Jane Cowl, John Hanson had created a musical

version under the title “When You’re Young” some five years earlier and toured it for three months as part of his

ongoing provincial tours. This was revived as “Smilin’ Through” at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford in

March 1972 prior to this London production. The original play had been a smash-hit film in 1932 with Leslie

Howard and Norma Shearer.

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COWARDY CUSTARD London run: Mermaid Theatre, July 10th (405 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: Noel Coward

Book: Gerald Frow, Alan Strachan & Wendy Toye

Director: Wendy Toye

Musical Director: John Burrows

Cast: Patricia Routledge,

Derek Wareing, John Moffatt,

Elaine Delmar, Una Stubbs,

Jonathan Cecil, Peter Gale,

Anna Sharkey, Geoffrey Burridge,

Laurel Ford, Tudor Davies and Olivia

Breeze.

Story: Telling the story of Coward's life through song and

biographical snippets, the revue was billed as "An entertainment

featuring the words and music of Noël Coward". The Coward

numbers featured are songs and scenes from Coward's works of the

1920s to the 1960s) and the revue also contains previously

unpublished material, excerpts of plays and dialogues, material

from Coward's autobiographies and some of his poems.

Notes: The original production at the Mermaid was part of the

1972 City of London Festival and ran for over a year for a total of

405 performances. It employed a cast of twelve (six men and six

women).

ROCK CARMEN London run: Roundhouse, July 13th

(Very short run)

Music: Bizet

Lyrics & Book: Herb Hendler & Michael Hughes

Director-Choreographer: Irving Davies

Musical Director: John Hawkins & Jonathan Cohen

Cast: Terri Stevens (Carmen), Davy Clinton (Joe),

Robert Coleby (Ed) Elaine Paige (Michelle), Sharon Lyle,

Frank Aiello, Leonard Bickley

Songs: I Can Never Sleep With You Again, I’m Being Pulled

a Thousand Different Ways, Touching You Having You, Do

What You Want With Me

Story: Don José becomes Joe, a campus policeman, Carmen

becomes a student revolutionary, Escamillo is transformed into

Ed, a sub-Presley superstar, and the show is played completely

in song – no spoken dialogue at all.

Notes: Plays and Players reviewed it as “Loud, frenetic attempt

to update the naughty cigarette girl into present day terms,

which falls flat on its filter-tip. Plenty of noise, but little else.”

It had a very short run

1972

Tudor Davies & Una Stubbs

Photo by S.C.M

oreton-Pritchard

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oreton-Pritchard

LIBERTY RANCH London run: Greenwich Theatre, July 18th (26 Performances)

Music: John Cameron

Lyrics: Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin

Book: Dick Vosburgh

Director-Choreographer: Gillian Lynne

Musical Director: Barry Booth Producer: Robert Stigwood

Cast: Derek Griffiths (Tommy Hawk), Margaret Courtenay (Mrs Culpepper), Bill Kerr (Colonel Culpepper),

Elizabeth Seal (Connie Kate Culpepper), David Kernan (Charles Marlow), Elizabeth Counsell, Bob Sherman

Story: In this version of Oliver Goldsmith’s

“She Stoops to Conquer”, the Hardcastles

have become Colonel and Mrs Culpepper,

Tony Lumpkin has become a half-caste Indian

called Tommy Hawk, and rural England has

become the western prairies and Culpepper’s

ranch.

Notes: It was reviewed as being great fun,

with special praise for Derek Griffiths whose

entire role was written in Hiawatha-like

couplets, but ultimately it was harmless,

unmemorable and all rather pointless. In spite

of a truly excellent cast, it did not transfer to

the West End.

PULL BOTH ENDS London run: Piccadilly Theatre, July 18th (36 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: John Schroeder & Anthony King

Book: Brian Comfort

Director: Leslie Lawton

Choreographer: Nigel Lythgoe

Musical Director: Alyn Ainsworth Producer: Marilyn Davis

Cast: Gerry Marsden (Joe Miller), Christine Holmes (Cindy Smith),

Miles Greenwood (Bill Kirby), Michael Cotterill (Fred Kirby), Judy Bowen,

Keith Smith, Liz Robertson

Songs: Every Morning, What About People?, After All We're Women, A Tiny Touch, Particular Woman,

Some Kind of Love, Put a Little Smile, Wallflowers, If You Knew the Way I Feel, Get the World to Dance,

Strike, Little Leather Book, There's Something About Her, Pullin' Together

Story: This was a vehicle show for TV dance favourites, The Young Generation. The story is set in a

Christmas cracker factory where the young dancers portray the work-force. Employees Bill Kirby and Cindy

Smith are in love, aided by chirpy Joe Miller, but thwarted by Bill’s father, Fred, the nasty owner of the cracker

factory. There is a love story, a take-over bid, a strike and other trials and tribulations set against energetic,

television style dancing and song.

Notes: The show was banal and very smutty, and gained inevitable notices like: “Not so much a cracker as a

damp squib” It did not last very long.

1972

Bill Kerr & Company

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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR London run: Palace, August 9th (3,358 Performances)

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lyrics: Tim Rice

Director: Jim Sharman

Musical Director: Anthony Bowles Producer: Robert Stigwood

Cast: Paul Nicholas (Jesus), Stephen Tate (Judas), Richard Barnes (Peter), Derek James (Simon Zealotes),

Dana Gillespie (Mary), George Harris (Caiaphas), John Barker (Pilate), Paul Jabara (Herod)

Songs: What’s the Buzz?, Everything’s All Right, I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Superstar, King Herod’s

Song.

Story: The last seven days in the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas

who fears that the humanitarian movement headed by Jesus is turning into a personality

cult – and Jesus is even being hailed as the Messiah by some of his followers. Judas

decides to betray Jesus to the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, who in turn send him to

be sentenced by Herod. Both rulers refuse to convict him, but the rabble has turned

against Jesus and demand his crucifixion. In his remorse, Judas hangs himself, and Jesus

dies on the cross.

Notes: The show began as a rock-opera “concert album”, and the success of the LP was

followed by a series of concert performances which eventually led to a staged production

in New York. It was hugely controversial – Jesus portrayed in a rock show in a very hi-

tech and glamorous staging – and was noisily opposed by several religious organisations.

The production was re-created in London in a simpler format, causing just as much

religious opposition but a sensational commercial success.

Photo by John Haynes

Paul Nicholas

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POPKISS London run: Globe, August 22nd (60 Performances)

Music: John Addison & David Heneker

Lyrics & Book: Michael Ashton

Director: Richard Cottrell

Choreographer: Malcolm Clare & David Drew

Musical Director: Raymond Bishop Producer: Donald Albery & Ian Hunter

Cast: Daniel Massey (Gerald Popkiss), Patricia Hodge (Clara),

John Standing (Clive Popkiss), Isla Blair (Rhoda),

Joan Sanderson (Gertrude Twine), Hazel Hughes (Mrs Leverett),

Mary Millar (Poppy Dickey), Susan Hardie (Mother-in-Law)

Songs: The Trouble With You, The Girl from Up The Road, I’m Not Going Back to

Him, A Rumour Gets Around, The Life of a Wife, Doing My Bit.

Story: Newly-married playboy Gerald Popkiss arrives at Rookery Nook without his wife, Clara. His mother-

in-law has been taken sick, so she and Clara are delayed. However, his cousin Clive is there. That night,

Rhoda, a beautiful young girl, has been thrown out of the house next door in nothing but her pink silk pyjamas

and begs him to let her stay. They take her in. Of course everyone gets the wrong idea as the boys try to hide

the girl and make excuses to his sister-in-law Gertrude, who lives nearby, and to the meddling maid, Mrs

Leverett. The situation gets even more complicated with the arrival of Poppy Dickey, selling flags for the

lifeboat and, of course, the inevitable entrance of

the wife and dragon-like mother-in-law.

Notes: Based on Ben Travers’ play “Rookery

Nook”, this faced the usual problem of turning a

farce into a musical: farces need relentless pace,

which comes to a stop when the characters start to

sing or dance. The two genres are basically

incompatible. The critics felt both parts of this

show were excellent – but they failed to gel

together. It had a short run.

MOTHER EARTH London run: Roundhouse, September 20th (12 Performances)

Music: Toni Shearer

Lyrics & Book: Ron Thronson

Director: Terry Palmer

Cast: Peter Straker, Helen Chappel, Linda Kendrick, Frank Aiello, Ziggy Byfield, Roy North

Songs: Sail On Sweet Universe, The Ecology Waltz, Plough it All Under

Story: A series of sketches and songs all loosely connected with environmental pollution. Scenes included

everyone pretending to be a machine and making a cacophony of industrial sounds, a scene where everyone

pretends to be an animal on the verge of extinction, and people dying from industrial poisoning – ironically all

conveyed in extremely loud rock music.

Notes: Originally an off-Broadway show, it was heavily Anglicised for London – but lasted just 12

performances.

1972

Daniel Massey, John Standing,

Peter Whitbread & Patricia Hodge

Credit Unknown

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STAND AND DELIVER London run: Roundhouse, October 24th (13 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: Monty Norman

Book: Wolf Mankowitz

Director-Choreographer: Wendy Toye

Musical Director: Robert Stewart Producer: Bernard Delfont & John Gale

Cast: Nicky Henson (Jack Sheppard), Derek Godfrey (Jonathan Wild), Paul Hardwick (Lord Harvey),

Anna Dawson, Elizabeth Mansfield, Alec Bregonzi , Michael Keating

Story: In the words of critic Martin Esslin: “To say that ‘Stand and Deliver’ is a dismally bad musical is an

understatement. A witless pastiche of Gay’s ‘Beggar’s Opera’ centres on cardboard reproductions of historical

characters like Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild with frantic but totally unoriginal music and cliché-infested

lyrics, bereft of any good line of dialogue or witty repartee, but stuffed with puerile naughtiness and revolting

double-entendres, it presented these gallant performers with a truly insuperable obstacle. The less said about it

the better. . .”

I AND ALBERT London run: Piccadilly Theatre, November 6th (120 Performances)

Music: Charles Strouse

Lyrics: Lee Adams

Book: Jay Allen

Director: John Schlesinger

Musical Director: Gareth Davies

Cast: Polly James (Victoria), Sven-Bertil Taube (Albert), Aubrey Woods (Palmerston/Gladstone) ,

Lewis Fiander (Melbourne/Disraeli), Elisabeth Wade (Duchess of Kent)

Songs: Vivat! Vivat Regina!, I've 'Eard The Bloody 'Indoos 'As It Worse, This Gentle Land, Victoria, The

Genius Of Man, The Widow At Windsor, No One To Call Me Victoria, When You Speak With A Lady, Go It

Old Girl!

Story: A spectacular musical of the life of Victoria – Queen, wife, mother and legend – and her Consort,

Albert, whose early death comes at the start of Act 2. The

politics of the time feature Palmerston/Gladstone and

Melbourne/Disraeli (the performers double the roles) and

history is moved forward along the lines of a scene where

Disraeli appears as a magician-conjurer, magically re-

constituting torn-up treaties, filling the empty coffers of the

Treasury with gold coins, turning a globe under the Union

Flag into a peer’s coronet and transforming himself into

Lord Beaconsfield.

Notes: With an excellent and versatile performance from

Polly James, and clever back-projections , this was an

excellent piece of entertainment, receiving considerable

praise but an astonishingly short run. This was the first

stage musical to be directed by the famous film director,

John Schlesinger, and there was a lot of backstage gossip

about his extreme extravagance—scrapping whole sets

because he didn’t like them, irrespective of the cost. It was

also said that a whole set of tartan kilts were specially

designed and woven and then rejected because Mr

Schlesinger preferred another tartan.

1972 Photo by Michael Childers

Sven-Bertil Taube and Polly James

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APPLAUSE London run: Her Majesty’s, November 16th, (382 Performances)

Music: Charles Strouse

Lyrics: Lee Adams

Book: Betty Comden & Adolph Green

Director-Choreographer: Ron Field

Musical Director: Robert Lowe Producer: Bernard Delfont & Alexander H. Cohen

Cast: Lauren Bacall (Margo Channing),

Eric Flynn (Duane Fox), Angela Richards (Eve Harrington),

Basil Hoskins (Howard Benedict), Sarah Marshall (Karen),

Ken Walsh, Sheila O’Neill

Songs: Think How it’s Gonna Be, Fasten Your Seatbelts, One of a Kind, The Best Night of

My Life, Who’s That Girl?, Welcome to the Theater.

Story: Theatre legend Margo Channing befriends an adoring fan, Eve Harrington, who

promptly schemes to take over her part, her man, and anything else necessary to advance

Eve’s own career.

Notes: Based on the 1950 film “All About Eve” from the story by Mary Orr. Margo is not

portrayed as a musical-comedy star, which cuts out the possibility of “show-within-a-show”

numbers. The dance routines and numbers are created in such locations as a Greenwich

Village gay bar, Joe Allen’s restaurant, and so on. It was a great success for Lauren Bacall,

making her first Broadway appearance in a musical, and repeating that role in London,

though to a much shorter run.

THE GOOD OLD BAD OLD DAYS London run: Prince of Wales, December 20th (309 Performances)

Music & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley

Book: Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse

Director: Anthony Newley

Choreographer: Paddy Stone

Musical Director: Robert Mandell Producer: Bernard Delfont

Cast: Anthony Newley (Bubba), Paul Bacon (Gramps/God) ,Bill Kerr (Simon) ,

Julia Sutton (Grace), Caroline Villiers, (Beloved Woman), Terry Mitchell (Young Man)

Keith Chegwin (Boy)

Songs: Women Must Wait, A Cotton Pickin’ Moon, I Do Not Love You, The Fool Who

Dared To Dream, Today Tomorrow Yesterday

Story: Bubba is a cute version of Beelzebub who wants to persuade God not to destroy the world, and by way of

persuasion, presents a pageant of mankind’s history through the ages. This includes the Mayflower, the French

Revolution, the American Civil War and the Great White Way of Broadway.

Notes: Generally it was described as tasteless and banal, with critics pointing to the finale’s camp tribute to

Broadway in which God trades in his white caftan for a sequinned tuxedo and top hat, and dances with four

assassinated American heroes who are shown with red bullet holes in their heads.

THE WIZARD OF OZ (Revival) London run: Victoria Palace, December 26th— A Christmas season revival.

Music & Lyrics: Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg

Book: L. Frank Baum

Director: Bryan C. Wolfe

Choreographer : Gerry Tebbutt

Cast: Diane Raynor (Dorothy) Frank Marlborough (Scarecrow), Sam Kelly (Tinman), Geoffrey Hughes (Lion),

Eileen Bell (Aunt Em), Angela Ryder (Sorceress of the North), Brian Hewitt-Jones (Wicked Witch of the West),

Tony Sympson (Wizard)

1972

Photo by Sophie Baker