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Music By CARL DAVIS
Lyrics By HIAWYN ORAM
Book/Libretto by: HIAWYN ORAM
Synopsis
Kip, a tough East End evacuee and his friends are being evacuated to the country to escape bomb-blasted London. They are being billeted to Darchet, a small village in Somerset, south England. The Darchett children - led by Buzz - feel very threatened by the arrival of new cockney kids. They think they are going to arrive and steal all their girlfriends, turn the town to ruins and take over the school playground. Kip's Mother back in London is very distressed to see Kip go off to be evacuated but understands it is for his own good although she can't go with him. Mr. Duncan Constance, Kip's teacher - billeted to Darchet with his school children falls in love the Darchett school mistress called Miss Laura Maybee. Kip is billeted to the house of Lucia Braithwaite (Aunt Luce) a formidable woman who's discipline tries to turns Kip into a respectable, clean and well mannered and behaved little boy. It fails. He falls in love with Ellen her niece who lives with Aunt Luce and Chuck (Kip's best friend) falls in love Grace - Aunt Luce's fourteen year old maid.Also in Darchett are Lady Holdmore, a wealthy landowner and snob and Mr. Jack - a world-weary man of the Darchett woods. Kip and his friends disobey Aunt Luce's strict instructions and take Ellen to the movies where they fall into the dream world of Pictures and Glamour and meet with the stars Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The two London and Darchett gangs fight it out ending with Kip being knocked unconscious - to be saved and revived by a German Pilot. It is revealed that all the Darchett children have been bullying the London kids and are severely scolded for this. Grace gets a promotion to work at Lady Holdmore's and Ellen is allowed to travel back to London with Kip. Chuck and the others stay back in Darchett for a little while longer. On getting back, Kip hardly recognizes any of the war-torn London. On seeing his street blown up he assumes his mother is dead until that is she emerges from the soot, rubble and smoke to welcome him home.
Song List
Act One:
- Wireless Music 1/Opening Act One
- London Kids
- Sending You To Safety
- Moving On
- Please Someone Choose Me
- Please Someone Choose Me (reprise)
- Constance and Maybee's Choose Me
- When This War Is Over
- Morning Prayers
- The Country's The Country
- Looking To See
- Our Rules
Act Two:
- Wireless Music 2/Opening Act Two
- Letter From The Front Line
- Winning Through
- Warning: Man In Uniform
- Picture/Glamour
- Ellen's Solo - Pictures/Glamour
- Battle Of Darchett Hill
- Just For A Moment
- Somewhere Behind
- Winds Of Change In Darchett
- Moving On (reprise)
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Added: Wed Apr 06 2005