Merthyr Imp
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May 1984 and a comedy I remember only vaguely:
I perhaps could have mentioned before a couple of points. One is that on Monday evenings (if I remember correctly) it was two tickets for the price of one for plays.
The other is that apart from most musical offerings, including operas, which were usually packed out, it was the practice on any night of the week if there was not a large audience in, to not open certain parts of the auditorium and accommodate people in other areas. Most common in my experience was the Balcony (ex-Gods) would not be open and people with tickets for it would be put in the back rows of the Upper Circle - or even in the rear Stalls if business was so indifferent that the Upper Circle was also left closed. The idea being, I suppose, that fewer theatre staff would be needed on duty if not all areas were in use. Old hands such as I'd become by this time would allow for this, and I would always book a Balcony seat knowing that much more often than not I would be in a better seat than I'd paid for.
For all I know this is still done today!
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Into 1984 and it was Opera North again in April with Smetana's 'The Bartered Bride' being the only production I went to see.
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Opera North were back at the beginning of November 1983 for their third visit of the year.
I only went to see Die Fledermaus which included Bill Maynard in the non-singing part of the jailer, Frosch ('...anything fresh, Frosch?').
Despite it being one of my favourites I can remember nothing of the production.
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Not named after the former Notts County player David Clarke, then?
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3 hours ago, The Pianoman said:
Unfortunately, a B17 is something I shall never see
Actually you may do as they're constructing another one as was done with 'Tornado':
http://www.b17steamloco.com/news-and-events/construction-progress
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2 hours ago, crankypig said:
Things you don't see any more.
People using reins on kids
We used reins for my son about 14 years or so ago when he was about 2.
You can make out the harness on this photo taken in Kensington Gardens.
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I was lucky enough to see 'Henry Oakley' - the engine on the right in that picture - when it had a spell working on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway around 40 years ago. Photographed approaching Haworth:
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I've been taking Simvastatin for nearly 12 years now with no side effects.
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The next month saw the visit of the National Theatre in a play which was to have featured Sir Ralph Richardson, but sadly he had recently been taken ill, and in fact had died at the beginning of that week. Robert Stephens moved up into his part and John Bennett was brought in in his place in turn. I can remember the two of them in it but not what the play was about.
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Later in September was another thriller, this time a new one by Francis Durbridge. Some well-known TV names in it, plus Barbara Murray back again.
As usual, I can remember nothing about it!
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There was a summer thriller season again for three weeks in August/September 1983 - two Agatha Christies and the thriller 'Wait Until Dark' about the blind girl who turns the tables on those who would terrorise her (Audrey Hepburn in the film).
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Opera North were back again at the end of June with (for me) Weber's greatest hit and Donizetti's 'The Elixir of Love'.
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Any spotters at the station would have been thrilled to see an A1 through there. Another photo on another site gives the date as 1964 - I wonder how it came to be working a freight on that line?
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Into June 1983, and a production of The Mikado, and while the comedy of the piece was brought ought OK, the minimal chorus and an updated arrangement of the music - including noises like sawing wood - did not help my enjoyment of it.
Notable in the cast were Nicholas Smith of 'Are You Being Served' fame in the title role, and Jimmy Thompson who I'd last seen in 'Saint Joan' as mentioned early on in this thread.
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Forest songs/chants I remember:
She'll be wearing red and white when she comes
She'll be wearing red and white when she comes
She'll be wearing red and white, wearing red and white etc, etc
Singing aye-aye Ian Storey-Moore
Aye-aye Ian Storey-Moore
etc etc
Zigger-zagger, zigger-zagger
Joe Ba-ker!
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The following week was a play, which if I remember right was billed as being on a 'prior to West End' tour. It featured Raymond Burr of all people, plus some other well-known names, including Gerald Flood who I'll always associate with the Sunday tea-time TV serial 'Pathfinders in Space' and its sequels. Like Barbara Murray, he seemed to be a regular in touring plays in the 1980s.
I can't remember much of the play except that it was all rather preposterous, and I'm not sure that it ever reached London - or if it did, was not a success.
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In May 1983 there was the original non-musical stage adaptation of Gigi.
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Opera North then paid their first visit of 1983 with La Boheme and Don Giovanni, which I saw, and a piece by Janacek which I didn't.
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Into April 1983 and one or two TV names in the classic comedy:
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Later in the month was a thriller starring Sylvia Syms and William Franklyn. Something to do with an impersonation of the Prime Minister, but I can't remember anything else about it.
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7 hours ago, Compo said:
Merthyr Imp: Ostermilk No1 was half cream and No2 full cream.
Nothing but the best required by the people in Sherwood, then!
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We used to sell tins of Ostermilk No. 2 in our shop in the 1960s. Don't ever remember seeing Ostermilk No. 1 though, so don't know what the difference was.
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Into 1983, and in March was another play about which I can remember nothing, but with some familiar faces from TV especially:
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No Fry's Five Boys either!
Re #1 - 2d for a packet of crisps must be going back a bit. Earliest I remember is of them being 4d. Then Golden Wonder came along in the 1960s and not only undercut them by selling at 3d but were ready-salted as well!
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The following week was one of the many plays of those days about which I can remember nothing.