Me and My Girl - 4

Gifts for Me and My Girl can include all kinds of variations on a theme of spoons, pearl buttons, coats of arms, aristocracy, cockneys, love and marriage.

 

 

Pearl button bracelet

Classic Car Tie Slide

And for Sir Jasper!

 

Eggbert - No Spring Chicken

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Me and My Girl - 3

1930's fashion

Costumes for Me and My Girl are fun, set in the 1930's and covering day dresses to evening balls, there is scope to use all styles from tailored trousers to fantastic bias cut satin dresses. Think Hollywood glamour in its heyday, and the fashionable haute couture of the debutantes and their escorts, contrasted with the bright and cheerful flamboyance of the Cockney denizens of Lambeth. Production numbers can be themed in various ways, our director decided to colour co-ordinate the big ballroom numbers, one being all in red and black, and another in shades of green. The pearly king and queen lead the way for the cockney costumes, and various pearled accessories can indicate the class distinction (waistcoats, caps, etc) especially in the Lambeth Walk.

Me and My Girl - 2

One of the set pieces that we as a company found fun was making the car for the opening number “A Weekend At Hareford”. This is built from pieces of luggage that fit together to form a large open top motor car, and are then dispersed to the servants on arrival at Hareford Hall. Our “car” arrived with the set, so the first time we got to put it together was tech rehearsal, and it took a lot of patience and experiment to make it work for the cast and crew, and in time with the musical cues. Tech rehearsal was even more intense and fraught than usual with various teams trying to make it work to fit with everything it needed to, but , as ever, any problems were ironed out by opening night. Proof of the “It'll be alright on the night” philosophy.

Me and My Girl

Pearly King and Queen

Me and My Girl

The story of Bill Snibson; a cockney costermonger who inherits the lands and title of Lord Hareford.

This light hearted musical has some lovely characterisation and allows for all generations to take part, from the young friends of Bill and Sally to the older generation of the Duchess of Dene and the ancestors of the Harefords.

There are cameo parts for a pearly king and queen (who play the spoons!) and several smaller parts that can steal the show at points (eg.; Sir Jasper, Lord and Lady Battersby) as well as a broad spectrum of main parts, and plenty of chorus.

Famous songs include The Lambeth Walk, Me and My Girl,  The Sun Has Got His Hat On and Leaning on a Lampost.