The Boyfriend

Showed Tuesday 15th – Saturday 19th April 2008

The Story
Musical Numbers
Cast List

Show poster

The Story

Madame Dubonnet's finishing school, near Nice, could exist only in musical comedy. The charming young pupils burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boy friends are forever popping through the French windows to make up the numbers. Polly Browne is too rich to be allowed a boy friend. Tony, for whom she falls, turns out to be the Hon. Tony Brockhurst, which is very lucky, because Polly thought he was just a delivery boy. Written in the fifties as "a new musical of the twenties", this is still the most successful, tuneful and witty of the send-up musicals, which ape the style of earlier, lighter-hearted and more disarming days.

Musical numbers

Perfect Young Ladies
The Boy Friend
Won't You Charleston?
Fancy Forgetting
I could be Happy with You.
Sur La Plage
A Room in Bloomsbury
It's Nicer in NiceThe "You-don't-want-to-play-with-me" Blues
Safety In Numbers
The Riviera
It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love
Poor Little Pierrette

Cast list

Waiter, Policeman & bit parts
Chris Mul

GIRLS:

Alix Chadwell, Amy Blaskett, Becca Attfield, Elesa Bussey
Libby Spencer, Loraine Taylor, Ruth Bristow, Sarah Taylor

LADIES:

Jan Critchley, Jane O’Sullivan, Lynne Andrews, Yvonne Chadwell

MEN:

Paul Smith, Peter Bellord, Philip Chadwell, Vernon Jennings