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:::Me and My Girl:::
Music by Noel Gay
Lyrics and Book by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber
Book Revised by Stephen Fry
This is a very interesting show. it's got some odd music but it's kinda fun. The script is kind of witty but no amazinhg story but somehow everyone who saw it liked it. The book was re-written my Stephen Fry (who wrote alot of Monty Python) so i suppose it's gotta be pretty funny. We also had a really good cast.
It was alot of fun too, I met heaps of awesome people and got to work with some old friends again. The parties were eventfull, this was the first show in which I took up drinking properly! and I have never regretted it! hehe! although I do sort of regret the closing night party at which I was very sick with alcohol poisoning! oh well! I also met Dan in this show, for a full accout of the "Dan" saga....find someone else who knows. I couldnt be bothered telling it...again!
Cast and Crew:
Bill Snibson: Rodney Beaver
Sally Smith: Emma Barlow
Lady Jaqueline Carstone: Katelyn Keys
Hon. Gerald Bolingbroke: Alexander Roose
Maria, Duchess of Dean:Lisa Adams
Sir John Tremayne: Robert Grice
Herbert Parchester: Bryn Honeyman
Charles, the Butler: Phil Dodd
Sir Jasper Tring: Rocco Weglarz
Lord Battersby: Bill Lord
Lady Battersby: Margaret Jacobs
Mrs Anistasia Brown: Catherine Lamont
Ensemble: Anthony Avis, Megan Bolitho, Kathleen Campbell, Clem Daw, Lincoln Daw, Josie Dunham, Kathleen Holleley, Colleen Jitts, Conrad Knight, Nathan Leach, Toni Maxfield, Samara Purnell, Charlie Sanders, Katherine Saye, Nick Valois, Libby Warren, Jmes Wookey, Kim Wrigley
Synopsis:
Set in the late 1930's the story begins with young Mayfair Swell journeying from london to Hampshire, wnticipation the apperance of the long lost heir to the Earldom of Hareford. Meanwhile Lady Jaqueline Carstone, although engaged, secretly conspires to snatch the wealthy Earl for herself. The family solicitor, Herbert Parchester, reveals the story of the 13th Earl's tainted sexual relations and the consiquent existence of "Lambeth" offspring. The Earl's son and Heir Bill Snibson, a cockney from Lambeth, is located but must be deemed an appropriate Hair by the tw executors of the Earl's will, Maria Duchess of Dean and Sir John Tremayne. While the Duchess is confident of transforming Bill into a suitable heir her husband, John, and others are not convinced. The Duchess gives Bill etiquette lessons and just when he seems to be cathcing on and convincingly playing the part his Lambeth girlfriend, Sally, turns up with friends, putting a dampener on the party before it even starts. She announced that she is going back to where she belongs - Lambeth and will be taking Bill with her.
Act two begins in the Hareford garden the following afternoon with Lady Jaqueline, Gerald and others playing croquet as they dance and sing. Meanwhile Bill and Sally remain in Hareford despite expressed intentions of leave, with Sir John campaigning for them to get married, having earlier been swayed by Sally's remarks about the depth of their love. Despite Sir John's support Sally tells Bill he should marry someone with good blood and leaves for London. Soon after, however, she is visited by Sir John who, acting in defiance of his wifes wishes to exclude Sally from the family, offers Sally the services a speach professor. Meanwhile, with Bill moaning constantly about the loss of his Lambeth love, the Duchess finally sees how much Sally means to him and accepts her husbands proposal that the two marry. Just as bill, dressed in his Lambeth attire, informs everyone of his intentions to return home Sally, elegantly attired in tiara and shimmering white gown, enters speeking the kings English.
