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A musical comedy, or, as Vivian Stanshall would have it, an English Comic Opera in The Grand Tradition. Stanshall (1943-95) wrote it together with his wife, Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, for their Old Profanity Showboat in Bristol, where it was staged by the Crackpot Theatre Company in December 1985. This book documents these shows. It contains the script of the musical, the lyrics of the songs, photographs, artwork by Vivian Stanshall, and an introduction by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall. The comedy is set in a typically English end-of-the-pier theatre, where the once great music hall artiste Soliquisto and his company have descended for a week. Nine years earlier Soliquisto's greatest creation, a singing and dancing cat called Stinkfoot, disappeared mysteriously from the very same theatre. Soliquisto still mourns for the loss of this talented cat and is shrouded in memories of better days.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Nothing like it before, and I don't imagine there ever will be anything like it again. Not without Vivian Stanshall in the world. (Bugger, what a thought.) When something is really unique, well, there you go. It's not a play, not quite an opera, though there's a bit of both throughout. It certainly is touched with a fond memory of music hall. It is a musical comedy, that's for sure. But not your standard everyday British A. L. Weber crap...no melody, no lyrics to speak of, no surprises (except spectacle). It's not the (to me) boringly cerebral Sondheim (sp?). It's not Broadway. Although there are a few show-stoppers in it. What it is, is bright and strange and clever and moving and memorable. It's something only Stanshall could have made...with the addition of his equally clever and unusual wife. Come back, Vivian. And forgive us.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A little book stuffed with strange and unusual goodness. It should be on a stage, a good stage, and seen by thousands. Britain needs Stinkfoot. It needs the kind of thing only a genius like Vivian had a hand in, more than ably helped by his brilliant wife. Which reminds me that aside from the original script there's an introduction by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall that made my eyes well up. Of course, I wasn't crying. Not me.
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It's finally here, after all these years. Vivian Stanshall's real Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead just as it was, only better. It's remastered and official. T'will be followed soon by an official CD.
Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead [VINYL]
Please note. The shoddy CD put out by something called Hacket (sp?) is and was a bootleg of the worst sort. Ignore it!
Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead [VINYL]
Please note. The shoddy CD put out by something called Hacket (sp?) is and was a bootleg of the worst sort. Ignore it!
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