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'S THE WORD
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. She agre wh the show's génue, Lda, to open a drama school wh Lda's money at Gay's untry hoe Folktone. 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.
IVOR NOVELLO’S GAY’S THE WORD [JERMYN STREET THEATRE]
Gay's the Word premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchter, England, on October 17, 1950. GAY DAVENTRYLINDAPETER LYNTONPRINCEGIRLSTAGE-DOOR KEEPERBY-STANDERLUCYMANAGERMADAME NICOLINIBIRDIEMONICAMARGARETCHEADLEDOREENAUDREYJUNESILVANONESPOULOSJULIETROSALINDDESDEMONANELL GWYNNROMEOOTHELLOORLANDOBODYSILVIADIANAHENRYWYNNALAURIEJOHNCHRISTINEMRS.
" - The Guardian"Gay’s the Word, beg a mil edy about puttg on an amatr mil edy, is an ial productn for a small pany" - The Telegraph ON BREAKING CHARACTER8 Classic Brish Mils to Performby Cathy ThomasAugt 5, 2019. His last two shows were Kg's Rhapsody and Gay’s the Word, which had, unually, no role for Novello, as he was still performg Kg's Rhapsody.
GAY'S THE WORD
In theatril circl his homosexualy was an open secret. Gay’s the Word was the last mil posed by Ivor Novello, openg 1951 wh a st head by Cicely Courtneidge and nng for over a year at the Saville Theatre London.
It’s failg spe the prence of Gay Daventry (played wh vim and vigour by Sophie-Louise Dann). The book of Gay’s the Word, wrten by Novello, is a ramshackle affair, here “adapted” by Richard Stirlg.