Vintage

23rd September - 1st October 2005

World War II Revisited

To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of VE Day 1945 – 2005
This show opens to a full stage orchestra playing, on fake, instruments “Chatanooga Choo Choo”, It’s the Glenn Miller Band!!

As the show progresses all the band members perform different parts to portray various events in WWII, from the Andrews Sister “Roll out the Barrel” to “When The Lights go on Again”. Almost every well-known song of the period is sung: Berkeley Square, We’ll Meet again, White Cliffs of Dover, Run Rabbit, etc.
Everyone gets a chance to act, sing, and impersonate, from ARP wardens, Tommy Handley, Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, “Jane”. We have evacuees, Alvar Liddell, Lord Haw Haw, The Battle of Britain, a Lancaster raid, Max Miller, George Formby, Rita Hayworth, the Home Guard, Gert and Daisy, even Adolf Hitler! We have land girls and the Radio Doctor.

As this will be the 60th anniversary I understand this could be a big event nationwide and we could be included with links to the British Legion, American Forces, etc.

The Home GuardVera LynnMax MillerRita Hayworth Ration BookJane - a comic-strip character in the Daily MirrorFashionsChildren wearing Gas MasksLand Girl

HAPPY AS A SANDBAG - CAST

Gentlemen’s Ensemble
Monty
Clio Barton
Jan Beyts
Frank Augur
Neil Allen
Annette Bowden
Ann Burley
Ian Beyts
Michael Bezant
Karen du Plessis
Rachael Ellis
Paul Cockfield
Peter Dayton
Sarah Evington
Jeanette Gibson
Basil Evans
Andrew Findlay
Barbara Head
Julie Ann Hilton
Paul Francis
Andrew James
Jenny Haywood
Julie Huntington
Ian Head
John Horsburgh
Wendy Huntley
Angharad Jones
Nigel Offley
Alan Phillips
Rose Macleod
Lara Patrick
John Reeves
Mike Rowbottom
Rosalie Raymond
Heather Simpkin
Ian Smith
Jane Taylor
Cherry Tyer
Beryl Vaux
Jeni Wood
Hazel West-Manning