INSTANT MARRIAGE 1964 NM UK OC LP JOAN SIMS PAUL WHITSON-JONES WALLACE EATON
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INSTANT MARRIAGE
ORIGINAL LONDON CAST RECORDING from 1964
JOAN SIMS, PAUL WHITSON-JONES, BOB GRANT, STEPHANIE ROSS, HAROLD GOODWIN, REX GARNER & WILLIAM EATON
VINTAGE VINYL 33 RPM LP RECORD
MUSIC BY LAURIE HOLLOWAY
LYRICS BY BOB GRANT
Format: Vinyl, 33 rpm LP
Label: ORIOLE PS 40062 MONOCountry: UK
Released: 1964
Genre: Stage & Screen
Songs: Getting Married, Down There, I Not Sleep, Flippin' Strippin', Hands Off He's Mine, We Get it at Home, Show Him What's What +++
INSTANT MARRIAGE London Run: Piccadilly Theatre, August 1st (366 Performances) Music: Laurie Holloway Lyrics & Book: Bob Grant Director: Bob Grant Choreographer: Rae Landor Musical Director: Gareth Davies Producer: Donald Albery & Brian Rix Cast: Bob Grant (Eastwood), Harold Goodwin (Tubbs) , Joan Sims (Lavinia), Paul Whitsun-Jones (Bickerstaff), Tony Holland (Harold) , Wallas Eaton (Algernon), Stephanie Voss (Miranda), Don McCorkindale (Stephen) Story: Four Yorkshire folk come down to London on a day-trip: Eastwood and Tubbs are secretly intent on visiting a strip show in Soho, Eastwood's spinster sister, Lavinia, has a secret appointment at a marriage-bureau, and Alfie Bickerstaff, too, is secretly planning a similar visit. Naturally, Lavinia and Alfie end up at the same marriage bureau which is run by a gay couple, Harold and Algernon, and, by chance, the marriage bureau is located in the same building as the strip club. To make matters worse, the chief stripper is Miranda, who is the fiancée of Tubbs' son, Stephen. With a prison scene for being unable to pay a restaurant bill, a wrong turning which leads into the stripper's dressing room, some cross-dressing, and a police chase, etc. this was an early version of the “Carry On” tradition, but with songs.
VINYL = MINT-
LABELS = EXCELLENTCOVER = VERY GOOD. HAS TYPICAL BRITISH LAMINATE COVER WITH A FEW SMALL BUBBLE LIFT LINES AND MARKS ALONG THE EDGE AREAS. HAS SMALL CRINKLES ON THE CORNERS. THERE IS A TWO INCH SEAM SPLIT AT THE TOP CENTER AND ONE INCH ON BOTTOM CENTER. TANNING MILDLY WITH SLIGHT RINGMARK ON THE BACK. NO TAGS, WRITING OR CUT-OUT MARKS.
June Bronhill OBE (26 June 1929 – 24 January 2005) was an internationally acclaimed Australian coloratura soprano opera singer, performer and actress, She was well known for light opera and musical theatre in London West End theatres and Australia as well as on the opera stage.
Biography Bronhill was born June Mary Gough in the inland Australian city of Broken Hill, New South Wales to George Francis Gough, born in Essex, England and Mary Isobel Daisy Hall. Her stage name, Bronhill, which she used from 1952, was an abbreviation of Broken Hill, which was her way of thanking her home town for its support in raising money to send her overseas for professional training as a singer.[1][2] Her European vocal teacher misheard "Broken Hill" as "Bro-n-hill". She won the Sun Aria, now known as the Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald's Operatic Aria, in 1949. Bronhill trained in London and gained early exposure with the English National Opera (Sadler's Wells Opera) company in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. She also sang leading roles in Die Fledermaus, The Gypsy Baron, Menotti's The Telephone, Flotow's Martha and Hansel and Gretel. Her roles in Offenbach's operas, with the Sadler's Wells company, included Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and Gabrielle in La Vie parisienne. In 1961 and 1962, she appeared as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music on the Australian stage. In 1964 she appeared as Elizabeth in the musical Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric Theatre, London alongside Keith Michell as Robert Browning, a show she took to Australia in 1966. She also appeared in England in tours of two Ivor Novello musicals, Glamorous Night and The Dancing Years, the latter playing a season at the Saville Theatre in London. She also appeared as the Mother Abbess in the 1981 London revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Bronhill was perhaps best known for the title role of Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, which she sang with the Sadler's Wells Opera (now known as English National Opera), with Thomas Round as Danilo in 1958 and revised in 1960[3] Bronhill made frequent visits back to her homeland, singing in operas such as The Merry Widow, Orpheus in the Underworld, Die Fledermaus and Rigoletto at the Sydney Opera House in 1975. In 1976, she decided to move back to Australia permanently. In Australia she appeared in operas such as Il Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and a Victoria State Opera production of Donnizetti's Maria Stuarda in July 1976, directed by Robin Lovejoy[4] with a cast including Nance Grant conducted by Richard Divall.[5] She played operetta roles such as Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore), Phyllis (Iolanthe) and Ruth (The Pirates of Penzance). She also had roles in The Maid of the Mountains, Call Me Madam, A Little Night Music, Nunsense, My Fair Lady and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as well as appearing in the non-musical plays Arsenic and Old Lace and Straight and Narrow. Bronhill also appeared in the role of Mrs Crawford in the television comedy series Are You Being Served?, the Australian version of the British comedy series, as well as in Lipton Tea television advertisements singing an adaption of Fugue for Tinhorns. Bronhill was a patron of the Australian Girls Choir from the choir's beginning. There is a scholarship in her name, the June Bronhill Encouragement Scholarship, awarded each year to the chorister with the most choral prowess. Personal life[edit] Bronhill married twice, first to Brian Martin in 1951 in Sydney, New South Wales and second to Richard Milburn Champion de Crepigny Finny, in January 1953. Both marriages ended in divorce. She had a daughter, Carolyn Jane Finney in May 1963 by her second marriage.
Death Bronhill died on 24 January 2005, aged 75, in her sleep at a Sydney nursing home. Although she had beaten breast cancer in the 1980s, her last years were marred by deafness and social isolation and she retired in 1993. Her home town, Broken Hill, honoured her by declaring a minute's silence during the 2005 Australia Day celebrations two days after her death. Autobiography[edit] Bronhill's autobiography, The Merry Bronhill, was published in 1987. EMI Australia produced a compilation album with the same title to publicise the book. Honours[edit] Bronhill was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year's Honours of 1976,[6] and was later given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australian Variety Club.
The Dancing Years is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. The piece is one of Novello's most popular musicals. Like many of Novello's musicals, The Dancing Years was given an expensive, spectacular production, with several scene changes and a large cast including many extras and dancers.
It was first produced in London's West End on 23 March 1939.
Production
Novello starred in the lead part. The story, set in Vienna in pre-1914, shifting to 1938, follows the life of a penniless composer and his love for two women. The women are completely different in their social classes, one being an innkeeper's daughter and the other an opera singer. The background of Nazi persecution was very topical in 1939 when the musical was first played. The opening night was 23 March 1939 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. After a closure at the start of the Second World War in September 1939, it reopened at the Adelphi Theatre on 14 March 1942 and ran there until July 1944, for a total of 969 performances. It was the most popular show of WW2, having similar attraction as Chu Chin Chow had in the First World War. It earned an estimated £1,000,000.[1]
Cast
Ivor Novello
Mary Ellis
Olive Gilbert
Dunston Hart
Roma Beaumont
Songs
Waltz of My Heart
Wings of Sleep
My Life Belongs to You
Three Ballet Tunes
I Can Give You the Starlight
My Dearest Dear
Primrose
Leap Year Waltz
Adaptations
The musical was turned into a popular film in 1950. A televised production was aired by United Kingdom channel ITV in the 1980s.
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