- Year
- 2005
- When
- April 2005
- Venue
- Dormston Mill Theatre, Sedgley
- Type
- Musical
Synopsis
Me and My Girl tells the tale of Bill Snibson, a Cockney bloke who suddenly becomes heir to an earldom. The Hareford clan, a group of insufferable aristocrats, are clinging to their blue-blooded ways by the tips of their well-manicured fingers. The family's precarious financial situation can only be remedied by locating a legitimate heir to the earldom of Hareford. In due course an heir is found, but, unfortunately for the haughty Harefords, he turns out to be the decidedly non-noble Bill Snibson, a swaggering Cockney from Lambeth. The Earl's will specifically states that the heir must be deemed a fit and proper person by the two very fit and proper executors, Maria, Duchess of Dene, and Sir John Tremayne. A good-hearted woman beneath all her jewellery, the duchess is determined to make the best of the situation by transforming Snibson into a proper gentleman. To complicate matters further, Snibson is madly in love with a girl he refuses to leave behind, fellow Cockney Sally Smith.
From the company’s records
Song list included A Weekend at Hareford, Thinking of No One But Me, Me and My Girl, The Family Solicitor, An English Gentleman, You Would If You Could, Hold My Hand, Once You Lose Your Heart, The Lambeth Walk, The Sun Has Got His Hat On, Take it on the Chin, The Song of Hareford, Love Makes the World Go Round, Leaning on a Lamp-post and the Lambeth Ballet.
The 2005 website advertised the run at the Mill Theatre, Sedgley, with a 7.30pm curtain and a Saturday matinee, and printed the full running order of twenty-four numbers recorded here.
April itself is safe, because the following September the home page looked back on "Me and My Girl, April 2005".
Recovered from the Internet Archive.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer
- Tim Jones
- Musical Director
- Tim Harding
Cast
- Bill Snibson
- Simon Pugh
- Sally Smith
- Lydia Simpkiss
- Sir John Tremayne
- Colin Hunt
- Maria, Duchess of Dene
- Dorothy Copson
- The Honourable Gerald Bolingbroke
- Dave Storey
- Lady Jaqueline Carstone
- Colette Edwards
- Mr Parchester
- Mac Hammond
- Charles, the Butler
- Greg Yates
- Sir Jasper Tring
- John Arnold
- Lord Battersby
- John Wiley
- Lady Battersby
- Angie Astell
- Mrs Brown
- Val Simpkiss
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Its pages disagree about the opening night4
the news page of 11 January 2005 gives 26 to 30 April, the production page gives 25 to 30 April, and the calendar allows either, so no opening date is recorded
The running order
Every number, in the order the programme printed them.
Act one
Overture
A Weekend at Hareford
Thinking of No One But Me
Me and My Girl
The Family Solicitor
An English Gentleman
An English Gentleman (Reprise)
You Would, If You Could
Hold My Hand
The Family Solicitor (1st Reprise)
Once You Lose Your Heart
The Preparation Fugue
The Lambeth Walk
Act two
Entr'acte
The Sun Has Got His Hat On
Take it on the Chin
The Family Solicitor (2nd Reprise)
The Song of Hareford
Once You Lose Your Heart (Reprise)
Love Makes the World Go 'Round
Leaning on a Lamp-post
Lambeth Ballet
Finale: Love Makes the World Go 'Round / Me and My Girl (Reprises)
Curtain Call: The Lambeth Walk (Reprise)
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