Ian (lovingboth) wrote,
Ian
lovingboth

It's only taken, oh, about 45 years

One of the records my parents had was the original cast recording of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, Lionel Bart's second musical / 'play with music'. They were quite proud of having seen it in London before Bart's next, Oliver!, opened. So the title track in particular was one I remember hearing a lot as child, but I've never seen an actual production of it.

Well, it's just opened at the tiny Union Theatre in Southwark. The night I'm going (Thursday) is sold out - I suspect that might be its official opening night - but there are currently seats available for most others.

I'll let you know what it's like...

This entry was originally posted at http://lovingboth.dreamwidth.org/427612.html, because despite having a permanent account, I have had enough of LJ's current owners trying to be evil. Please comment there using OpenID - have and if you have an LJ account, you can use it for your OpenID account. Or just join Dreamwidth! It only took a couple of minutes to copy all my entries here to there.
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