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 == Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

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 *Sound Operator - [[Brian Fretwell]]
 *Set Design - [[Adam O'Riley]]
-*Set Construction - [[Adam O'Riley]], [[Daniel McConnon]], [[Bob Callendar]], [[Stuart Flitton]], [[Bernard Bullbrook|Bernie Bullbrook]], [[Jess Osorio]] & [[Anton Krause]]
+*Set Construction - [[Adam O'Riley]], [[Daniel McConnon]], [[Bob Callender]], [[Stuart Flitton]], [[Bernard Bullbrook|Bernie Bullbrook]], [[Jess Osorio]] & [[Anton Krause]]
 *Prompt - [[Marian Buss]]
 *Military Advisor and Drill Tutor - [[Peter Fortune]]

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 *Musical Director - [[Alan Walker]]
 *Choreographer - [[Anna York]]
 *Stage Managers - [[Jess Osorio]] & [[Pat Laban]]
 *Lighting Design - [[Mike Elliott]]
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 *Set Design - [[Adam O'Riley]]
 *Set Construction - [[Adam O'Riley]], [[Daniel McConnon]], [[Bob Callendar]], [[Stuart Flitton]], [[Bernard Bullbrook|Bernie Bullbrook]], [[Jess Osorio]] & [[Anton Krause]]
-*Prompt - [[Marion Buss]]
+*Prompt - [[Marian Buss]]
 *Military Advisor and Drill Tutor - [[Peter Fortune]]
 *Stunt Co-ordinator - [[Clive Russell]]
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 *Wig Master & Hair Stylist - [[Jay Michaels]]
 *Make-up - [[Elaine Heath]]
 == Reviews ==

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 The show has eleven musical numbers, most of them pastiches of styles of the day, such as "Could you please inform us how we came to lose the war" a homage to Noël Coward, and "Sunnyside Lane" a Flanagan and Allen number.
-The play is largely based on Nicols's own post-wartime experiences as a member of C.S.E or Combined Services Entertainments, where he shared a stage with none other than John Schlesinger, Stanley Baxter and Kenneth Williams. The outfit, under command of "stiff-upper-lip" Major Giles Flack, is a performance unit called SADUESA: Song and Dance Unit, South-East Asia. The company is also under the command of an outlandish theatrical queen, Dennis. Together, the unlikely duo of Flack and Dennis have to prepare the troupe for the tour of the war zone. They are accompanied by a psychotic Sargent-Major, who's involved in selling arms to rebels; and a young officer, recently transfered from the Intelligence Corps.
+The play is largely based on Nicols's own post-wartime experiences as a member of C.S.E or Combined Services Entertainments, where he shared a stage with none other than John Schlesinger, Stanley Baxter and Kenneth Williams. The outfit, under command of "stiff-upper-lip" Major Giles Flack, is a performance unit called SADUESA: Song and Dance Unit, South-East Asia. The company is also under the command of an outlandish theatrical queen, Dennis. Together, the unlikely duo of Flack and Dennis have to prepare the troupe for the tour of the war zone. They are accompanied by a psychotic sergeant-major, who's involved in selling arms to rebels; and a young officer, recently transfered from the Intelligence Corps.
 == Cast ==
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 *Corporal Len Bonny - [[Richard Watkins]]
 *Lance Corporal Charles Bishop  - [[Stuart Flitton]]
-*Leading Aircraftman Eric Young-Love - [[Andrew Naussbahm]]
+*Leading Aircraftman Eric Young-Love - [[Andrew Nussbahm]]
 *Private Steven Flowers - [[Simon Holland]]
 *Lee - [[Mark Davies]]
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 *Choreographer - [[Anna York]]
 *Stage Managers - [[Jess Osorio]] & [[Pat Laban]]
-*Lighting Design - [[Mike Elliot]]
+*Lighting Design - [[Mike Elliott]]
 *Lighting Operator - [[Sarah Farage]]
-*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]] with assistance from [[Chris Vian-Smith]], [[Brian Fretwell]] & [[Elaine Heath]]
+*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]] with assistance from [[Christopher Vian-Smith]], [[Brian Fretwell]] & [[Elaine Heath]]
 *Sound Operator - [[Brian Fretwell]]
 *Set Design - [[Adam O'Riley]]
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 From the Croydon Advertiser.
-Peter Nichol's play is about a song and dance init in Malaysia following the second world war. Cue the inevitable comparison with teh TV sitcom <i> It Ain't Half Hot Mum</i> which this production cleverly acknolwledges at one point by playing its signature tune offstage.
+Peter Nichol's play is about a song and dance unit in Malaysia following the Second World War. Cue the inevitable comparison with the TV sitcom <i> It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum</i> which this production cleverly acknowledges at one point by playing its signature tune offstage.
-SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia), under the command of the blimpish Major Flack, is like Fred Karno's army with a gay flavour. Acting Cpatqain Terri Dennis being its resident queen. It is based on Nichlo's own Far East experience in the Combined Services along such comic luminaries as Kenneth Williams and Stanley Baxter.
+SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia), under the command of the blimpish Major Flack, is like Fred Karno's army with a gay flavour, acting Captain Terri Dennis being its resident queen. It is based on Nichols's own Far East experience in the Combined Services along such comic luminaries as Kenneth Williams and Stanley Baxter.
 The ambience is captured with a good deal of flair in Elaine Heath's spirited production. The life and soul of the party is Joe St Johanser's busy, fussy Terri Denis, about whom my only criticism would be its superabundance of camp. Very funny, even inspired, yet I think it could make its point with just a modicum of restraint.
-There is not much rrestraint about Alan Jarvis as the bristling Major Flack. And quite right too, for he paints a flawless picture of the dim, fanatical, God-fearing British officer at his best, or worst; an arrow shot with deadly accuracy.
+There is not much restraint about Alan Jarvis as the bristling Major Flack. And quite right too, for he paints a flawless picture of the dim, fanatical, God-fearing British officer at his best, or worst; an arrow shot with deadly accuracy.
 Simon Holland is Private Steven Flowers, probably the author himself, the wide-eyed innocent who brings a bit of culture into the proceedings. Elinor Morgan-Jones is the Welsh-English girl responsible for his rite of passage: a true and sincere performance though needing a touch of the brake, a bit of space and time between the words, in the interest of better audibility.
-The rest are mainly "types" generally played with much panache, especially Bob Callendar as the unpleasant Sergeant-Major, and Richard Watkins as the thick, hard-swearing, genial Brummie, Len Bonny, whose death in action comes as a shock amidst the prancing proceedings.
+The rest are mainly "types" generally played with much panache, especially Bob Callendar as the unpleasant sergeant-major, and Richard Watkins as the thick, hard-swearing, genial Brummie, Len Bonny, whose death in action comes as a shock amidst the prancing proceedings.
 Donald Madgwick

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 == See Also ==
-Have there been other SLT productions of this play?  Link to them here.
+Have there been other SLT/SLTC productions of this play?  Link to them here.
 Or add anything that is related ''within this site''.  The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.