BORDELLO a musical in two acts by Julian More. Lyrics by Julian More and Bernard Spiro. Music by Al Frisch. Queen's Theatre, 18 April - 24 May, 1974 (41 perfs) SYNOPSIS Bordello is set in a brothel. The year is 1899, The show is a series of more or less erotic sketches strung on to a freely reinterpreted life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. The establishment's Madame and nine of her inmates watch as a new recruit wanders in under the impression that the place is a hotel. There follows a play-within-a-play as 'Madame Blanche's Fantasy Theatre' act out the Lautrec scenas which comprise the show's second half. The sole male member of the cast is Lautrec. MUSICAL NUMBERS Music by Al Frisch; book by Julian More; lyrics by Julian More and Bernard Spiro. . PC: Henry Woolf, Stella Moray, Angela Easterling. MN: 1. A Place Like This 2. Bordello 3. Yourself 4. A Country Bride 5. Apache Dance 6. Morality 7. Business Tango 8. Simple Pleasures 9. Art Should Be Art / Can-Can 10. Family Life 11. If You Should Leave Me 12. Madame Misia 13. All the Time in the World 14. I Love Me 15. The Girl in Cabin 54 16. The Way I See It 17. Belly Dance 18. Hallucination 19. What Does It Take? CAST Madame Blanche Gabrielle Mireille Melanie Rachel Yvonne Carmen Popo Lulu Elsa Manon Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
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