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The Complete Beyond the Fringe (A Mandarin humour classic)
  

The Complete Beyond the Fringe (A Mandarin humour classic) (Paperback)

by Alan Bennett (Author), etc. (Author), Peter Cook (Author), Jonathan Miller (Author), Dudley Moore (Author), Michael Frayn (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (25 Oct 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074931687X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749316877
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 724,648 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From its opening at London's Fortune Theatre in May 1961 "Beyond the Fringe" played for several years to packed houses, and later transferred to Broadway. It changed the face of revue and re-established social and political satire in England as recognized and powerful weapons in the comedian's armoury. This complete original script of the show includes Alan Bennett's cleric, Peter Cook's miner, Dudley Moore's parody of Britten and Jonathan Miller's saga of the blue trousers. The book also contains the music of Moore's songs, the texts of a number of the sketches included in the subsequent Broadway production, an account by Roger Wilmut of the performance history of the show, and postscripts written by three of the authors 25 years after the event.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Satire begins and peaks, 3 Nov 2007
By S J Buck (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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Beyond the Fringe was a theatrical revue that was first performed in 1961.
The contributers and performers were Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore. For the younger readers who are unfamiliar with the names they were respectively a brilliant writer (Bennett), comic writer and probably one of the funniest men who ever lived (Cook), Doctor, Opera director and many other things (Miller), musician and Actor (Moore). This book contains the complete scripts for that famous review. In fact there were a number of different versions, but the scripts here contain virtually everything from the shows.

Forty six years later and a lot of this material is still brilliantly funny. Take the opening sketch 'Steppes in the right direction'. After an introduction where Dudley Moore plays the National Anthem on a Piano, it turns out Dudley's character is not British but from Russia. The others then try to teach him about the British way of life. After failing initially they resort to extreme tastics by blowing a raspberry when Khrushchev's (the then Soviet Premier) name is mentioned and saying mmmn when Macmillan's name is mentioned. By the end though the whole the cast is saying Macmillan and blowing a raspberry everytime. Remember at the time of the show Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister and nobody had ever mocked the Prime Minister in public.

Also included in the book is the sheet music to the musical pieces Dudley Moore wrote for the show including his brilliant piece 'And the same to you'. This is the theme to Col Bogey played in a variety of classical Piano styles. Wonderfully funny if you ever saw film of him playing it, as he can't end the piece. Its a sort of spoof Beethoven ending with Dudley starting to panic...

Sadly Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are no longer with us, but this book is a fine way to remind yourself of the great contribution to British comedy that these four made.
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