- Year
- 2005
- When
- April 2005
- 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 archive does not record the venue for this production.
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
Were you in it?
We would like to know more about Me and My Girl.
The record for this production is thinner than the show deserves. If you were in it, or you were in the audience, you may have something the archive does not.
Programmes, photographs, cuttings from the local paper, a cast list in somebody’s handwriting: all of it helps, and we will add it here.
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