The Bed-Sitting Room
A scheduled week at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre (24th-29th April) was cancelled to make room for re-rehearsals prior to the West End opening on 3rd May. (‘Milligan play change of plan’, Birmingham Post 10th March 1967, page 5.)
Cast & Crew
Cast
Blonde Singer / 1st Announcer / Baker’s Delivery Man / Juke Box Jury Panellist / Diplomat / The Mourner / GPO Delivery Man / Sea Captain | David Nettheim |
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Captain Pontius Kak | John D Collins |
Coffin Man | Grahame Mallard
(credited as Grahame T Mallard) |
Gladys Skroak | Denise Stafford |
Lord Fortnum of Alamein | Valentine Dyall |
Mate | Spike Milligan |
Mr Monday | Alan Hay |
Penelope Wilson | Sandra Fehr |
Penelope Wilson (replacement) | Laurie Davey |
Phantom / Cave Man / 2nd Announcer / Boy / Orderly / Seaman | Johnny Vyvyan |
Pianist | Alan Clare |
Shelter Man / Plastic Mac Man / Richard Crossman / Underwater Vicar / Brigadier Sergeant | Bill Kerr |
[replacement] | Terry O’Sullivan |
Crew | |
Director | Spike Milligan |
Music and Lyrics | Alan Clare |
Music and Lyrics | Harry Edgington |
Music and Lyrics | Spike Milligan |
Stage Manager | Terry O’Sullivan |
Assistant Director | John D Collins |
Press Representative | John Goss |
- Observations (1)
- Source: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
- Last modified by Chris D.
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Observations
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Did this play also tour? I’m reasonably sure I saw it but think it would have been at Brighton; or could there have been a London transfer? Only one clear detail survives in my imperfect mind, viz a line or possibly a poster lowered from the flies: BUDDHISTS USE ESSO. (A ref to self-immolation as protest against the Vietnam War.) PS I’v searched in vain for SON OF OBLOMOV (1964 ?). Is my failure down to technical incompetence?
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