Salad Days continues at Richmond Theatre until 15 September 2018, then tours until 17 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Salad Days wears its 64 years lightly. It still has the silliest storylines and awful puns that composer Julian Slade and lyricist Dorothy Reynolds wrote, but also all the charm and feelgood factor that […]
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Salad Days – Union Theatre
Salad Days continues at the Union Theatre, London until 9 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The 1950s musical Salad Days is, let’s face it, an odd one. Ostensibly the story of two Oxbridge graduates who rebel against their parents in the most genteel of ways – by marrying and getting […]
Free As Air – Finborough Theatre
Free As Air continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 21 October. Free As Air, originally produced at the Savoy Theatre in 1957, was the musical that the composer Julian Slade and his co lyricist-author Dorothy Reynolds wrote while Salad Days, their first collaboration, was still playing at the Vaudeville Theatre across the way in the Strand. It […]
