Gay Daventry, a producer and stage star, go bankpt when her new London operetta, siar to a Ruranian Ivor Novello mil, is a disappotg failure
Contents:
- GAY'S THE WORD – REVIEW
- GAY'S THE WORD
- IVOR NOVELLO’S GAY’S THE WORD [JERMYN STREET THEATRE]
- GAY'S THE WORD
GAY'S THE WORD – REVIEW
* gay's the word ivor novello *
It shows Novello abandong Ruranian operetta to return to the revue format of his youth, and mt be one of the first public entertaments to make d reference to the sexual meang of "gay".
It nomally volv a mil edy star, Gay Daventry, who pensat for a mega-flop by openg an actg school Folktone that be an entrepot for smugglers.
It says much about the lazs of the current versn that fails to rolve the ctoms-evasn story and has Gay sayg, at one pot, "I uld always go to The Moetrap", which didn't open until a year after Novello's mil was the show was nceived as a vehicle for a specific star, Cicely Courtneidge, and Sophie-Louise Dann now occupi the lead role wh enormo, bright-eyed elan. Gay Daventry, a producer and stage star, go bankpt when her new London operetta, siar to a Ruranian Ivor Novello mil, is a disappotg failure.
GAY'S THE WORD
She agre wh the show's génue, Lda, to open a drama school wh Lda's money at Gay's untry hoe Folktone.
IVOR NOVELLO’S GAY’S THE WORD [JERMYN STREET THEATRE]
When she fally prents her show at Town Hall, Gay unexpectedly fds herself onstage wh her st members, and ultimately attempts to ctn off her valuabl an attempt to save her school.
GAY'S THE WORD
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