Passion Flower Hotel
A musical in 2 acts based on the novel by "Rosalind Erskine". Book by Wolf Mankowitz. Lyrics by Trevor Peacock. Music by John Barry.
Opened Palace Theatre, Manchester 30 July, 1965. Transferred to Prince of Wales Theatre, London 24 August, 1965. Closed 1 January, 1966. (148 Perfs)
Synopsis
The play charts a series of attempts by members of Bryant House School (female) and Longcombe School (male) to get together with the aim of putting their budding libidos into some sort of action, to which end they set up the eponymous Passion Flower Hotel, a sort of juvenile sexual encounter parlour in the hidden recesses of the school buildings.
Their more lurid ideas are soon dispersed amongst pubescent embarrassments and nothing actually happens before all is discovered and boys and girls - knowing each other better as friends and incipient lovers from the foolishness they've been through together - can dispense with Passion Flower Hotel.
Synopsis taken from Kurt Ganzl's The British Musical Theatre
Cast
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Musical Numbers:
- School Song - Company
- Little Hammer
- What a Question
- What Does This Country Need Today?
- Syndicate
- Naughty Naughty
- How Much of the Dream Comes True
- Tick Which Applies
- Passion Flower Hotel
- Great Big Nothing
- I Love My Love
- Beastly Beastly
- Something Different
- Don't Stop the Show
- School Song (Reprise) - Company