Fall 1993: Me and My Girl

 

Me & My Girl was specifically commissioned and written for Lupino "Nipper" Lane, to highlight his comic talents. It was the sequel to Twenty to One, a musical from the previous year, in which Lupino Lane first appeared as Bill Snibson. It was Lane's own idea to throw Bill into the midst of the aristocracy, having exhausted the theme of the gambling cockney layabout "on his own pitch" in the previous show. So certain was Lane that the show would be a winner, he backed the venture himself after the producer of Twenty to One rejected the new script. At the time of the opening there was considerable dissent amongst the cast, who had none of Lane's faith in the project. The show received good notices, but did not attract sufficient audiences to be financially viable. Lane, through a stroke of pure luck, managed to get an excerpt of the show broadcast on radio. The audience reaction to the Lambeth Walk number during the broadcast brought immediate activity to the box office - to the extent that the show broke box office records. TheLambeth Walk crossed the Atlantic and became the biggest international dance craze of the era. The show holds the honor of being the first musical ever to be televised. It was also turned into a film in 1939 under the title Lambeth Walk. In 1982 Richard Armitage discovered a pre-rehearsal script in the British Museum. Armitage immediately realized an enormous amount of work had to be done to translate the dated jokes and references successfully into a workable musical comedy for a modern audience. The updated version ran for 8 years (3, 303 performances) and made him a millionaire. By 1987 The Lambeth Walk was being performed to an audience somewhere in the world every 32 minutes.

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