There's a Girl in My Soup (play)

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For the film based on this play, see There's a Girl in My Soup.

There's A Girl In My Soup
Written byTerence Frisby
Characters7
Date premiered30 May 1966
Place premieredGolders Green Hippodrome
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy
SettingSumptuous 1960s apartment

There's a Girl in My Soup is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby.[1] Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of a smooth-talking TV chef, Robert Danvers, who falls for a much younger woman, Marion. She leaves her hippy boyfriend, Jimmy, to live with Danvers, but eventually returns to Jimmy, leaving Danvers bereft.

It opened on 30 May 1966 at the Golders Green Hippodrome and transferred soon after to the Globe Theatre.[2] There's a Girl in My Soup ran for 6+1⁄2 years until 1973 to become the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End.[3] The play ran at the Globe Theatre for 3+1⁄2 years, from March 1966 until 6 August 1969, when it transferred to the Comedy Theatre, opening there on 18 August 1969 and closing in 1973 after 2,547 performances.[4][3]

It was unprecedented for a comedy to run for such a long time. This record was later broken by No Sex Please, We're British and then Run for Your Wife.[5]

Productions

The show was directed by Bob Chetwyn and the first cast featured

Charles Tingwell, Gay Singleton and Richard Coleman. Richard Coleman understudied the role of Robert Danvers and played the part occasionally, when required to do so. The play was taken out on a tour of the UK in 1973, with Danvers reprised by Gerald Flood, who ultimately played the role for over 650 performances. During the tour Andrew was played by Laurence Payne and John Hart Dyke and Marion was portrayed by Katy Manning and Anne Aston
.

Ron Randell starred in a successful Australian tour.[7]

The show transferred to Broadway with Gig Young in the main role, where it also enjoyed success, but not on the same level as in the West End. It ran from 16 October 1967 to 27 July 1968.[8]

In 1991,

Mill at Sonning Theatre with Louise English as Marion and John Challis
as Andrew and co-directed by the author Terence Frisby.

It was later made into a

Roy Boulting, for which Frisby won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Screenplay in 1970.[9]
The film was also a financial success.

See also

Notes

  1. V&A Theatre & Performance Enquiry Service Archives
  2. Cameron Mackintosh Ltd. & Delfont Mackintosh Theatres Ltd Archives
  3. Programmes of There's A Girl in My Soup
  4. Posters & playbills of There's A Girl in My Soup

References

  1. ^ "There's a Girl in My Soup". www.samuelfrench.co.uk.
  2. ^ a b "Production of There's a Girl in my Soup - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ^ a b "There's a Girl in my Soup".
  4. ISBN 9780715643402
    – via Google Books.
  5. ISBN 9781849436021
    – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Michael Codron".
  7. ^ Vagg, Stephen (10 August 2019). "Unsung Aussie Actors – Ron Randell: A Top Twenty". Filmink.
  8. ^ League, The Broadway. "There's a Girl in My Soup – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  9. ^ "There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) – Articles – TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.

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