A Comedy by Richard Harris
(by arrangement with Samuel French)
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| Stepping Out, which enjoyed a succesful West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap dance class in a dingy church hall. There is ex-professional dancer, Mavis, who runs the class, cheerfully overweight Sylvia, Andy (a plain do-gooder with no confidence), snobby but well meaning Vera, timid Dorothy (who works in social security), Maxine (attractive, sharp and very shrewd), plain Lynne, Rose (the Golden Oldie) and Geoffrey (the lone male). As the play progresses, the class's dancing improves to such an extent that, by the climax (a grand charity show performance) they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line. Stepping Out was voted Comedy of the Year by the Evening Standard Drama awards in 1984. | ||
| Here we see Vera (Gill
Jeffery), on the right, interupting a conversation between Andy (Glynis
Norris) and Geoffery (John Preston). Below, we see one of the early rehearsals for the 'big concert' in which the tap class has been asked to perform. |
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The tap class peformed so well at the concert, that they were asked to return the following year to perform another big number. In the photo on the left, we see Mavis (Jane Mackinnon) and Geoffrey (John Preston) in part of the big closing tap dance number, and below, we see the whole class in the closing number. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Here is our cast with Director, Richard Digance See our press review Our production was directed by Richard Digance and choreographed by Julia Watts, and was staged at the Plaza Theatre in Romsey during the week of 9th to 14th June 2003 |
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