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We are so excited about our next production which you really don't want to miss. It's an utterly British musical - suitable for all the family - with a deliciously infectious, toe-tapping, retro contemporary score full of eccentric characters, and of course, our star, Betty the pig, who you will adore.

The show is set almost exactly 70 years ago in 1947, just before the Royal Wedding, and we are delighted to send our congratulations to Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary on November 20th.

Known as "the people’s wedding”, the nuptials of a popular young princess and a handsome “Greek god” gave postwar Britain something to smile about. Some wondered whether a lavish and expensive royal wedding was a good idea during the post-war gloom of rationing and austerity. The British people, however, seemed not to have cared a jot: thousands of women sent in their clothing coupons for the wedding dress while the people of Leamington Spa pooled their pennies to present a washing machine as a gift. The Australian Girl Guides even donated their pocket money to scrape together the eggs and flour needed for the 9ft cake.

Meanwhile, in a small Yorkshire town Betty, an adorable pig, is being illegally reared to ensure the local dignitaries can celebrate the Royal Wedding with a lavish banquet while the local population make do with Spam.....

 

Recent photographs from rehearsals, courtesy of Geoff Thompson, show just how much fun the cast are having, Characters include Gilbert – an evangelistic chiropodist, and Joyce – a nobody determined to be somebody; Inspector Wormold - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat; Mother Dear – ‘She’s seventy four and ravenous’; along with a weird assortment of bullies, spivs and snobs, and the long-suffering housewives trying to feed their families.




The star, of course, is Betty the pig - the actual pig used for the 2014 National Tour. You can see just how much Phil Robinson and Artistic Director John Bowness adore her!
Betty Blue Eyes is based on the 1984 film 'A Private Function' written by Alan Bennett. It premiered in the West End in 2011, receiving excellent critical reviews, and was the first new musical for producer Cameron Mackintosh in over 10 years:

 

Tickets: £12 adults / £10 concessions
(Concessions available Monday to Wednesday and Saturday matinee) are available 
online at
http://www.little-theatre.co.uk/
or at the
Brewhouse Box Office 01283 508100

The show runs from 
Monday 13th – Saturday 18th November at 
7:30 each evening plus a Saturday matinee at 2:30pm

 


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