Follow That Girl

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Follow That Girl

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Original London Cast Album
Music Julian Slade
Dorothy Reynolds
Lyrics Julian Slade
Dorothy Reynolds
Book Julian Slade
Dorothy Reynolds
Productions 1960 West End

Follow That Girl is a musical adapted by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds from their original Bristol Old Vic production Christmas in King Street. The story centers on a girl named Victoria Gilchrist, whose parents want her to marry one of two businessmen. She objects and runs away. Her capture after a long chase by a policeman, Tom, leads to romance and finally marriage to him. The original production contained many topical and local Bristol references the heroine Victoria was named after the Bristol University Students Union building but most of these were replaced when the show was revamped for its West End production.

Musical theatre work that combines songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance

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Julian Penkivil Slade was an English writer from London of musical theatre, best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and which became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s, with over 2,288 performances.

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Victoria was played by Susan Hampshire and Tom by Peter Gilmore. Others in the cast were James Cairncross a prime collaborator with Slade and Reynolds in their musicals both as a performer and writer Patricia Routledge, Robert MacBain and Philip Guard. Follow That Girl opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on 17 March 1960 and ran for 211 performances.

Susan Hampshire British actress

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Peter Gilmore actor

John Peter Gilmore, known as Peter Gilmore, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC television period drama The Onedin Line (1971–80), created by Cyril Abraham.

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993. Her film appearances include To Sir, with Love (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).

Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds also wrote Salad Days and Hooray for Daisy . Profits from Salad Days were donated towards the purchase of premises for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1956 and this contribution was honoured forty years later when the school's new purpose-built dance and movement studio was named after them in 1996.

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.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School drama school in Bristol, England

The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is a drama school in Bristol, England that provides training in acting for film, television and theatre. It is one of the most prestigious drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded by Laurence Olivier in 1946.

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