Salad Days

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Event Salad Days
Venue Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Date 1958
Dates Estimated No
Status Unknown
World Premiere No
Description Jane and Timothy Dawes meet up in a park to plan their lives soon after their graduation. Deciding that Timothy must take the first job he's offered, a passing tramp offers them £7 a week to look after his mobile piano. Upon accepting, they discover that when the piano plays it delivers all within earshot an irresistible desire to dance! After attempts to ban the music by the Ministry of Pleasure and Pastimes, the piano vanishes, and Timothy enlists his Uncle Zed to take them in his flying saucer to retrieve it.
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Musical
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Graham Clifford Director
Dorothy Reynolds Lyricist
Julian Slade Music and Lyrics Librettist
Works
Text Nationality England
Further Information Salad Days premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in 1954, and went on to become the longest-running show in British musical theatre until overtaken by Oliver!.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 190304