Our 2008 production is Me And My Girl.
We will be performing the show in Linlithgow Academy from Monday 20 October 2008 until Saturday 25 October 2008. Tickets are now available online... Children receive a FREE ticket to the Monday evening performance if they attend our Kids Workshop.
Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay.The show stopper, "The Lambeth Walk", was the subject of a news story in The Times of October 1938: "While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances - to The Lambeth Walk."
Me and My Girl was revived in 1952, and again in 1984, with a revised script by Stephen Fry and contributions by Mike Ockrent at the Leicester Haymarket theatre, from where it transferred to London's West End for a successful eight year run at the Adelphi Theatre, later going on tour throughout Britain. It then transferred to Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in 1986 for a long run of 1,420 performances. The production was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Original Score, and it is this script on which our show will be based.
Who turns out to be the long-lost heir to the Baronetcy of Hareford, its 17th Baron and 8th Viscount? Lambeth's own Cockney sparrow, Bill Snibson, that's who. He has his own girlfriend, Sally, but that won't stop gold-digger Lady Jacqueline. She ditches her dumbfounded boyfriend, Gerald, when Mr Parchester, the family solicitor, presents Bill to the flabbergasted family as the new son and heir.
But Bill has still to win the family's approval to inherit the title - and the money. The formidable Duchess is determined Bill should stay at Hareford, insisting that, with a little grooming, Bill will be suitable to inherit. There will be an official reception to introduce him to the county set. But Sally is not to be invited. Bill faces up to the Duchess - no Sally, no Bill. But Sally doesn't want to come anyway - not to a posh party. The party goes ahead and Sally turns up in full Cockney get-up complete with a posse of pearly kings and queens who perform the 'Lambeth Walk' to prove Bill doesn't belong.
In an effort to make him stay and take up his inheritance, the Duchess persuades Sally to tell Bill she no longer loves him. Sally does this, and slips out to an unknown destination. Bill, helped by Sir John and Parchester, is determined to find Sally (whom he still loves). He is urged on by a Ruddigore-like gallery of ghostly portraits of his ancestors. Back at her landlady's Sally decides to move on. She's got a telegram from Bill and must escape. However, Sir John arrives and has a cunning plan...
LAMP cast 2008
- Bill Snibson... Mark Eggling
- Sally Smith... Alison Train
- Gerald Bolingbroke... Les Fulton
- Lady Jacqueline Carstair... Claire Porterfield
- Duchess Maria... Pauline Adams
- Sir John Tremayne... Paul Clark
- Parchester the Solicitor... Tom Keeble
- Sir Jasper Tring... Bob Clark
- Charles the Butler... Cameron Leask
- Lady Battersby... Sheila Rogers
- Lord Battersby... Eric Brown
- Mrs Brown... Carol Fraser
- Constable... Malcolm McNulty
- DIRECTOR... AMANDA-LOUISE CLARK
- MUSICAL DIRECTOR... EDDIE MACLENNAN
