Salad Days (1958 Film)
''Salad Days'' was a 45-minute Australian telecast of the play '' Salad Days'', which toured there starring Judy Banks in 1958. Directed by Arthur Wyndham, it aired from the Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, on ABN-2 on 16 April, the first live musical televised in the country from the professional stage. The previous year the Australian Broadcasting Corporation had broadcast a TV revue. References External linksSalad Daysat National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ...

Salad Days (musical)
''Salad Days'' is a musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. The musical was initially performed in 1954 in the UK in Bristol and then in the West End, where it ran for 2,283 performances. Background Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds had been working together on writing musicals since 1952, writing the book, music and lyrics. Reynolds was also an actress. They wrote ''Salad Days'' as a "summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic's resident company." The title is taken from William Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'': "My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then!", and the phrase has come to be used generally to refer to one's days of youthful inexperience. The musical's enduring popularity lies in its light-hearted innocence and apparent simplicity, in sharp contrast to the many "hard-nosed" American musicals of the era, and its bright score including the songs "We Said We Wouldn't Look Back", "I Si ...
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