Gay's the Word is a mil wh book and mic by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville. The mil is a backstage edy that parodi Novello's own swashbucklg Ruranian romance plots. The story centr on Gay Daventry, a bankpt operetta producer who opens a drama school at her untry hoe. This also turns out to be unsuccsful, but leads to a theatril eback for Gay. The mil premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchter, England, on 17 October 1950. It transferred to the Saville Theatre London, openg there on 16 Febary 1951, where ran for 504 performanc and starred Cicely Courtneidge as Gay, Lizbeth Webb as Lda, and Thorley Walters. While embraced the new style of mil theatre om Ameri, also ntaed tradnal Brish humour for Courtneidge and glamoro soprano solos for Webb. The Brish Theatre Gui nclus: "The mil was never that good and whout The mil was revived 2012 at the Fborough Theatre, London, wh a book revised by Richard Stirlg, directed and choreographed by Stewart Nicholls.
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- GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
- GAY'S THE WORD
- IVOR NOVELLO’S GAY’S THE WORD [JERMYN STREET THEATRE]
- GAY'S THE WORD
- GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
- GAY'S THE WORD
- GAY'S THE WORD, MIL
- GAY'S THE WORD, MIL
- GAY'S THE WORD – REVIEW
- GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
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Gay's the Word is a mil wh book and mic by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville. [1] The story centr on Gay Daventry, a bankpt operetta producer who opens a drama school at her untry hoe.
This also turns out to be unsuccsful, but leads to a theatril eback for Gay.
It transferred to the Saville Theatre London, openg there on 16 Febary 1951, where ran for 504 performanc and starred Cicely Courtneidge as Gay, Lizbeth Webb as Lda, and Thorley Walters. 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.
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 * gay's the word musical *
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 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.
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).
IVOR NOVELLO’S GAY’S THE WORD [JERMYN STREET THEATRE]
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The book of Gay’s the Word, wrten by Novello, is a ramshackle affair, here “adapted” by Richard Stirlg.
GAY'S THE WORD
Gay's the Word is a mil wh book and mic by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville. The mil is a backstage edy that parodi Novello's own swashbucklg Ruranian romance plots. The story centr on Gay Daventry, a bankpt operetta producer who opens a drama school at her untry h * gay's the word musical *
There is a up featurg a lady who was a 17-year-old chos girl the origal st of Gay’s the Word. She is Elizabeth Seal who here plays a temperamental Italian teacher, sharg a illy venomo number about spised pupils wh three other veterans – Sands, Gaye Brown and Eileen Page.
Gay's the Word. Gay's The Word is really a seri of set piec. Gay Daventry is to brg a mil to London but which,.
GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
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song, Gay leav the theatre to me on the show's unlikely.
The génue of the show offers Gay £2000 to. Teachg her stunts ballet, Gay dms to her.
dance teacher havg rigned means that Gay has to go on stage as a Greek.
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Other scen clu an ctn scene which Gay, disguised. the new show which gets Gay and her pupils back on to the profsnal. Gay Daventry.
Guards On Para - Gay and Boys. It's Bound To Be Right On The Night - Gay. If Only He'D Looked My Way - Gay.
GAY'S THE WORD, MIL
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- Gay and Company. Reprise - Reprise Lda, Gay and Company. Gaiety Glad - Gay and Company.
If Only He'D Looked My Way Reprise - Gay and Peter. Be Are Buzz' - Gay and Company.
GAY'S THE WORD, MIL
Be Are Buzz' Reprise - Gay and Company. The story centr on Gay Daventry, a bankpt operetta producer who opens a drama school at her untry hoe. At the Town Hall, the end-of-term show is to be performed, and Gay mt go on stage as a Greek dancer, bee the dance teacher of the school has rigned.
The school is failg fancially, and Gay disguis herself as an ctneer, to sell off the ntents of her basement; and one of the ems up for bid is a tnk that turns out to nceal the smugglers' goods. Fally Gay, Lda and her boyiend return to the profsnal stage wh their stunts a h show. "Gay's the Word" is a Brish mil edy that premiered 1951 wh mic and lyrics by Ivor Novello and book by Alan Melville.
The tle of the mil is a reference to a popular London bookshop lled "Gay's the Word", which was known for s llectn of gay and lbian lerature. While the show do not have any explic LGBTQ them, s e of the phrase "gay" has been seen as a nod to the bookshop and an acknowledgement of LGBTQ dienc. Gay's the Word [Origal London Cast].
GAY'S THE WORD – REVIEW
Gay's the Word, mil. 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 is a mil wh book and mic by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville.
It transferred to the Saville Theatre London, openg there on 16 Febary 1951, where ran for 504 performanc and starred Cicely Courtneidge as Gay, Lizbeth Webb as Lda, and Thorley Walters. 'Gay's The Word' London Bookstore Interview - Jim McSweeney.
GAY'S THE WORD (MIL)
Gay's the Word, The Brish Theatre Gui, April 9, 2012.
^ "Sprg Season: Gay's the Word", Fborough Theatre, accsed November 9, 2011. Gay's the Word — The Gui to Mil Theatre.