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Cowardly Custard
''Cowardy Custard'' is a musical revue and was one of the last Noël Coward shows staged during his life. It was devised by Gerard Frow, Alan Strachan and Wendy Toye. A book, also titled ''Cowardy Custard'', was published in connection with the revue, similarly celebrating the Coward image. The biographical revue premiered in London in 1972, running for 405 performances. A revised version toured in the UK in 2011. The term "cowardy custard" is a taunt used by children in the UK equivalent to "scaredy cat" in the US. History The working title of the show was ''Cream of Coward'', but Coward cabled the producers three months before the opening from his home in Jamaica suggesting ''Cowardy Custard''. He vetoed an alternative suggestion, ''This Is Noël Coward'', which he said was too close to "This ''Was'' Noël Coward". 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowardy Custard
''Cowardy Custard'' is a musical revue and was one of the last Noël Coward shows staged during his life. It was devised by Gerard Frow, Alan Strachan and Wendy Toye. A book, also titled ''Cowardy Custard'', was published in connection with the revue, similarly celebrating the Coward image. The biographical revue premiered in London in 1972, running for 405 performances. A revised version toured in the UK in 2011. The term "cowardy custard" is a taunt used by children in the UK equivalent to "scaredy cat" in the US. History The working title of the show was ''Cream of Coward'', but Noël Coward, Coward cabled the producers three months before the opening from his home in Jamaica suggesting ''Cowardy Custard''. He vetoed an alternative suggestion, ''This Is Noël Coward'', which he said was too close to "This ''Was'' Noël Coward". Telling the story of Coward's life through song and biographical snippets, the revue was billed as "An entertainment featuring the words and music o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillie Keane
Louise Miriam "Dillie" Keane (born 23 May 1952) is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedian. She has been a member of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda since its 1983 inception, and has also pursued a solo career. Early life Born in Portsmouth in 1952, Keane is the daughter of Frank Keane, a doctor from County Mayo, and Miriam Slattery, originally from Tralee, County Kerry, and was brought up in Portsmouth as a Roman Catholic. She has described her mother as something of a dragon. She was educated at the strict Roman Catholic Woldingham School (or Sacred Heart), where she sang in the school choir and played the guitar on the "Folk Mass" album recorded by some of the girls at Abbey Road in 1967. She has described the School as disorganised. At the age of eighteen, she was expelled for going to see Fellini's ''Satyricon'' in London with boys from Worth School. Keane then crammed for A-levels and studied music at Trinity College, Dublin, but left the four- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Musicals
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Plays By Noël Coward
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ''Kiss Me, Kate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (also known as "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" or simply "Let's Do It") is a popular song written in 1928 by Cole Porter. It was introduced in Porter's first Broadway success, the musical ''Paris'' (1928) by French chanteuse Irène Bordoni for whom Porter had written the musical as a starring vehicle. Bordoni's husband and ''Paris'' producer Ray Goetz convinced Porter to give Broadway another try with this show. The song was later used in the English production of ''Wake Up and Dream'' (1929) and was used as the title theme music in the 1933 Hollywood movie, ''Grand Slam'' starring Loretta Young and Paul Lukas. In 1960 it was also included in the film version of Cole Porter's '' Can-Can''. History The first of Porter's "list songs", it features a string of suggestive and droll comparisons and examples, preposterous pairings and double entendres, dropping famous names and events, drawing from highbrow and popular culture. Porter was a strong ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Dogs And Englishmen (song)
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a song written by Noël Coward and first performed in ''The Third Little Show'' at the Music Box Theatre, New York, on 1 June 1931, by Beatrice Lillie. The following year it was used in the revue '' Words and Music'' and also released in a "studio version". It then became a signature feature in Coward's cabaret act. The song's title refers to its refrain, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun." (The saying "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" is believed to have been coined by Rudyard Kipling.) The song begins with the first 10 notes of " Rule Britannia". This song is considered a patter song, because the lyrics are mostly spoken rather than sung. One of the memorable lines in the first chorus is "But Englishmen detest a siesta". According to Sheridan Morley, Coward wrote the song while driving from Hanoi to Saigon "without pen, paper, or piano". Coward himself elucidated: "I wrestled in my mind with the complicated rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Pride (song)
"London Pride" is a patriotic song written and composed by Noël Coward during the Blitz in World War II. Composition Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he said that suddenly he recalled an old English folk song which had been apparently appropriated by the Germans for their national anthem, and it occurred to him that he could reclaim the melody in a new song. The song started in his head there and then and was finished in a few days. In fact the tune of the German national anthem was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797 in a different context. The song has six verses. The opening lines, repeated three times within the song, are: The flower mentioned is ''Saxifr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll See You Again
"I'll See You Again" is a song by the English songwriter Sir Noël Coward. It originated in Coward's 1929 operetta ''Bitter Sweet (operetta), Bitter Sweet'', but soon became established as a Standard (music), standard in its own right and remains one of Coward's best-known compositions. He told how the waltz theme had suddenly emerged from a mix of car-horns and klaxons during a traffic-jam in New York. The song has been covered by a wide range of singers and groups, including Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Mario Lanza, Carmen McRae, Rosemary Clooney, Eddie Fisher (singer), Eddie Fisher, Vera Lynn, Bryan Ferry, Bob and Alf Pearson, Westlife and the Pasadena Roof Orchestra. Anna Moffo and Sergio Franchi recorded the song in duet on the 1963 RCA Victor Red Seal Album ''The Dream Duet [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Hesketh-Harvey
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The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over ''The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Spencer (journalist)
Charles Spencer (born 4 March 1955) is a British journalist. He was the chief drama critic of ''The Daily Telegraph'' from 1991 to 2014, having joined the paper in 1988. On 1 September 2014, it was announced that he had decided to take early retirement, and his final review for the paper appeared on the same day. He was educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. He began his career in journalism at the ''Surrey Advertiser'', and subsequently wrote for the London ''Evening Standard'', ''The Stage'' and ''Television Today'', before joining the ''Telegraph''. He won "Critic of the Year" in the 1999 British Press Awards. He has written three crime novels: ''I Nearly Died'' (1994), ''Full Personal Service'' (1996) and ''Under the Influence'' (2000). In 2006, Compton Miller of ''The Independent'' wrote in a profile: "This convivial ex-alcoholic is best remembered for his description of Nicole Kidman's nude scene in '' The Blue Room'' as 'pure theatrical Viagra'." In a rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
