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AND SO TO BED

Book by J.B. Fagan. Lyrics & Music by Vivian Ellis

Opened London October 1951 (323 performances)

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Synopsis

This is the musical adaptation of a play by J.B. Fagan about the English Elizabethan diarist, Samuel Pepys.

Vivian Ellis contributed an intriguing 17th century style score containing a mixture of musical influences such as a madrigal, jig, saraband and rigaudon in a variety of numbers including:

• Love Me Little, Love Me Long
• Gaze Not On the Swans
• Amo, Amas
• And So To Bed
• Bartholomew Fair
• Moppety Mo
• Beauty Retire