Having charmed audiences around the world with their award winning Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado, Regan De Wynter Williams Productions returns with one of Britain’s best loved and sunniest musicals with TV and West End star Wendi Peters (Coronation Street, ITV; Hetty Feather, BBC; White Christmas, Dominion Theatre), opening at the Theatre Royal Brighton from Wednesday 5th to Saturday 8th September.
Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’ musical Salad Days is an absolute romp of polite naughtiness and saucy encounters, with an energetic and peppy score featuring songs such as We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back, Look At Me, I’m Dancing, and We’re Looking For A Piano. It puts a smile on your face and a tap in your toes.
Director Bryan Hodgson comments, ‘I am thrilled to be able to stage Salad Days again this autumn – it serves as one of the greatest romps in musical theatre history, and really brings us a timeless sense of enjoyment and nonsense, which is always welcome in counteracting the sometimes overwhelming seriousness of today. With the fabulous Wendi Peters joining the cast too, it will simply be a fun and delightful evening out, and I cannot wait to get the magic piano and spaceship ready for its latest trip around the charming British countryside!’
Written in 1952 as a summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic, Salad Days then transferred to the Vaudeville where it ran for 2,283 performances. Salad Days is a phrase first coined in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, referring to Anthony’s youth; the show tells the light hearted tale of recent graduates Timothy and Jane. Unhappy with their pushy parents, they decide to get jobs and take on the responsibility of looking after a piano in a park! Little are they prepared to deal with the magic and madness that follows.
As well as Wendi Peters (Lady Raeburn/ Aunt Prue), casting includes Mark Anderson (Timothy), Jessica Croll (Jane), James Guilliford (Nigel), Francesca Pim (Fiona), Megan Armstrong (Rowena), Jon Osbaldeston (Timothy’s Father/Uncle Clam/Williams), Jay Worthy (Inspector/Manager/Zed), Maeve Byrne (Asphyxia), Nathan Elwick (Inspector Boot), Lewis McBean (Ambrose/Tom/Fosdyke), Callum Evans (Troppo), Ashlee Young (Marguerite), Valerie Cutko (Timothy’s Mother), Dan Smith (Tramp/Onstage MD), Victoria Nicol and Bradley Judge.
Salad Days appears at the Theatre Royal Brighton from Wednesday 5th to Saturday 8th September with evening performances at 7.45pm and Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm. Tickets are available from the Theatre Royal Brighton box office on 0844 871 7650 and at www.atgtickets.com/brighton