SLINGS AND ARROWS
Composer:
Various
Lyricist: Various
Opened: November 17,
1948, Comedy Theatre, London
Performances: ?
Medusa (M/L: Sandy Wilson) (dropped during the run):
1. Sandy Wilson At The Players,
Ovetures OVER1001 (Sandy Wilson, piano and voice) [reissued on Call It Love,
CD/Bayview RNBW004]
Music Talk (aka "Talk
On Bucolosi's Music") (monologue by Hermione Gingold) (dropped during the run;
originally used in RISE ABOVE IT (First and Second Editions) and subsequently
used in IT'S ABOUT TIME, STICKS AND STONES, and FROM A TO
Z):
1. Live At The Café De
Paris, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9010 (Hermione Gingold with Clarry Ashton,
piano)
Unrecorded Material:
"And to Hell-" (M/L: Leslie
Julian Jones)
All My Own Work (M: Harry Jacobson; L: Barbara Vereker) (added
during the run)
Blanchisseuse Heureuse (aka "The Happy Laundress") (M: Harry
Jacobson; L: Arthur Macrae)
Bless The Show (M/L: Leslie Julian
Jones)
Botticelli Angel (M: Geoffrey Beaumont; L: Simon Phipps) (added
during the run)
British Way (sketch? by Kathleen Dear)
Butterfly In The
Rain (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones)
Come For A Bathe At Brighton (M: Geoffrey
Wright; L: Sandy Wilson)
Creeps (M: Harry Jacobson; L: Michael Bryan) (added
during the run)
Flower Show (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones)
Forever England
(sketch? by Barbara Vereker)
Gardeners All (M: Leslie Julian Jones; L: Caryl
Brahms)
General Knowledge (M: Harry Jacobson; L: Peter Myers) (added during
the run)
The Gods Look Down (sketch by Peter Myers)
Have You Seen The
Crystal Place? (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones) (dropped during the run)
I Bought
A Mountain (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones and Virginia Winter) (added during the
run)
Late Pass (M: Norman Dannett; L: Peter Myers) (added during the
run)
Lovely Day (M: Leslie Julian Jones; L: Philip Loftus) (added during the
run)
Masseuse (M: Norman Dannett; L: Lionel Harris and Peter Myers)
(subsequently used in IT'S ABOUT TIME)
Mediaeval Spivs (M/L: Leslie Julian
Jones) (dropped during the run)
Menu (M: Harry Jacobson; L: Peter Myers)
(added during the run)
Mrs. Weaver's Beaver Muff (M: Harry Jacobson; L: John
Jowitt) (added during the run)
On The Through Choo-Choo To Crewe (M/L:
Leslie Julian Jones) (dropped during the run)
Opening: Morning, Noon and
Night (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones)
Pet Aversion (M: Jack Strachey; L: Gretchen
Franklin)
Puir Wee Lass (M: Clarry Ashton; L: Anrew Crawford) (added during
the run)
Rita Raven (M: Cliff Gordon and Stanley Black; L: Cliff
Gordon)
Scandal on the Sabbath (M: Norman Dannett; L: Peter
Myers)
Scottish Lament (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones) (dropped during the
run)
Send Me Back to Naples (M/L: Leslie Julian Jones)
Shoes and
Stockings (M: Harry Jacobson; L: Philip Dale) (dropped during the run)
Sit
Down a Minute Medea (song? by Arthur Macrae)
Sunday Afternoon (M: Norman
Dannett; L: Peter Myers)
Symphony of Love (sketch by Peter Myers) (added
during the run)
Taken As Red (M/L: Sandy Wilson) (added during the
run)
Thanks Mr. Rank (M/L?: Sandy Wilson)
Twilight In The Tuilleries
(sketch? by George Wood)
Visitors Welcome (M: Norman Dannett; L: Peter
Myers) (dropped during the run)
What Of The Night? (M/L?: Sandy Wilson)
(dropped during the run)
Wolf Cubs (M: Lawrence Wright; L: Peter Myers)
(parody of "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean)