tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post116915453774197451..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: This one is for Jon IsaacsSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1169244057942181632007-01-19T22:00:00.000+00:002007-01-19T22:00:00.000+00:00And don't forget a young, 15-year-old Tarby playin...And don't forget a young, 15-year-old Tarby playing the dying Edward VI with Bruce Forsythe as Philip of Spain (the Hapsburg chin), waiting in the wings with Mary Tudor played by Petula Clark.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1169232975743778662007-01-19T18:56:00.000+00:002007-01-19T18:56:00.000+00:00London Palladium, 1958. The staged is be-decked in...London Palladium, 1958. The staged is be-decked in the style of the banqueting hall of a large country mansion circa 1538. PETER GLAZE as King Henry VIII and VALERIE LEON as Dolly the Serving Girl<BR/><BR/>GLAZE : Now hurry up with those trenchers, girl. We are entertaining Sir Roderick Maclean this evening, the famous privateer and…oh lord he’s here now!<BR/><BR/>CHARLIE DRAKE (as Sir Roderick Maclean ) enters : <BR/><BR/>DRAKE : (To audience) Hello, my darlings!<BR/><BR/>GLAZE : Maclean?<BR/><BR/>DRAKE : No, I had a bath this morning.<BR/><BR/><BR/>GLAZE : We have a well-stuffed bird for you tonight Sir Roderick.<BR/><BR/>DRAKE : I like giving birds a good stuffing!<BR/><BR/>LEON – Oh Sir Roderick! Whoops, do me no harm!<BR/><BR/>Enter Fanny and Johnny Craddock pushing a trolley containing an enormous cooked peacock, head and tail feathers mounted as decoration.<BR/> <BR/>F. CRADDOCK – But first, your Majesty….an evening’s diversion.<BR/>.<BR/>Enter the Black and White Minstrels dressed as radical dissenters, singing and playing lutes. Some are Carrying a life-size effigy of Anne of Cleves<BR/> <BR/>MINSTRELS<BR/>We smoke grass, We love ass!<BR/>We want to hug her, we want to bugger!<BR/>We live on the East Side! We live on the East Side!<BR/><BR/><BR/>GLAZE : D-oh! This is absolutely dreadful! Get them off!<BR/><BR/>J. CRADDOCK (drunkenly) – What, knickers?<BR/><BR/>DRAKE – I like the sound of that. In fact, I think I’ll go home and take the wife’s knickers off now. They’re making my balls itch.<BR/><BR/>LEON – Oh Sir Roderick! Whoops, do me no harm!<BR/><BR/>Suddenly, flashers of saltpeter, fire crackers, sound of thunder. Peacock splits open to reveal DANIEL FARSON, dressed as Mephistopheles hidden inside<BR/><BR/>FARSON (jumping up, brandishing flaming trident and winking at audience) – I’m only here for the beer!<BR/><BR/>Audience roars with laugherIl Son Juifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065514317972053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1169193031124131342007-01-19T07:50:00.000+00:002007-01-19T07:50:00.000+00:00Forget "Celebrity" (ahem) Big Brother - you know w...Forget "Celebrity" (ahem) Big Brother - you know what would be my idea of the perfect television programme?<BR/><BR/>"An Evening's Diversion" - a re-enactment of a Tudor banquet in a late 1950s idiom. You could have Fanny Craddock cooking the peacock, Johnny getting trouser-stained on the mead, the Black and White Minstrels luting in and the Glazemeister himself as a Henry VIII type figure, perhaps with a nubile Valerie Leon as his concubine. Fantastic!<BR/><BR/>Any ideas how this could this developed?Il Son Juifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065514317972053315noreply@blogger.com