Strangers & Exiles was a contemporary piece about a group of misfits living in a London boarding house. It had a rock/pop score as opposed to the 1930's pastiche of Fallen Angels. It never occurred to me that its themes including teenage pregnancy, homophobia and "Gay Bashing" would be seen as controversial: I mean it was 1978. Yeah, 1978 in the rest of the country, 1958 in Minehead.
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| Does anyone remember LETTERSET? |
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| 60p? - Talk about inflation. |
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| Wonder who he's singing about? |
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| Me, Jen, Pat Daley, Joan Passmore & Den. |
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Publicity shot outside The Ritz Amusements, Watchet.
Sue Harris, Jane Parsons, Kim Ambrose, Kay Daley & Elaine Stevens. |
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| Tin Foil dresses that tore with every move. |
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| What makes you think that I'd recently seen A CHORUS LINE? |
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| Click to enlarge. |
The punters got an extra song one night. Just after the penultimate number in the first act, the lighting guy switched on the house-lights and announced the interval. We were stunned; we had a whole scene and a load of plot that the audience needed to see, unfortunately the break where the REAL interval should be was essential to a major scene change and so I had to write a soliloquy in ten minutes to cover it. I wore one costume under the other and gazed wistfully at the scribbled notes in my hand like a demented method actor; much like I always do I suppose.
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| Much like the look I perfected on stage when ad-libbing the new song. |
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