Summary
THE last but one column had a ring of old time music hall about it - Jimmy James, Eli Woods and the indelibly querulous Fred Emney, appearing at Billingham Forum in 1976 in A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum.
The show really was direct from Broadway, the title coincidental, the co-star Phil Silvers as the slave Pseudolus. Les Jobson, Forum theatre director at the time, remembers it well.See the full content of this document
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Striking a Chord with the Music Hall Maestros
"Fred was a strange guy, let's just say he didn't suffer fools gladly, " he recalls. "A Funny Thing Happened wasn't really his scene. He lived in Bognor Regis and for some reason kept want...
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