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Strictly limited edition of the stage version of The Entertainer... featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, George Relph & Brenda de Branzie
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1.
Overture
2.
Bloody Poles & Irish!
3.
Who Is It?
4.
What About The News
5.
Here, have a glass
6.
Good evening, ladies & gentlemen
7.
Don't take him seriously - why should i care?
8.
Hello! Oh, Archie will be so pleased to see you
9.
So, you didn't go away for the weekend
10.
How's young Mick
11.
In trouble again
12.
We're all out for good old number one
13.
They were graceful, they had mystery and dignity
14.
Telegram's come for you
15.
The reason for this little celebration
16.
You want another before you turn in
17.
Dad - you're keeping something to yourself
18.
Overture
19.
I Knew The Couldn't Keep Him
20.
I Rememeber Once My Mum Promised
21.
But He's right, You Know
22.
That's Not All They Have To Do
23.
My Dear, Nobody Can Tell You What You Mean
24.
Yes, You've Been Away Too Long
25.
Oh, There You Are, You Old Has-Been!
26.
Here! Here!
27.
Now I'm Just An Ordinary Bloke
28.
She'd Steal Your Knickers
29.
I Think You'd Better Sing, Don't You
30.
I Ought To Be Going Up In A Minute
31.
Anyway, You CAn't Get Draft Bass In Canada
32.
I Went To Canada During The War
33.
Your Mother Caught Me In Bed With Phoebe
34.
Oh, I Know You, You Think I'm Just A Tatty Old Music Hall Actor
35.
I Thought There Was Somebody In Here
36.
Well, That's That
37.
You Can't Do It To Her Want Some Beer, Grandad
38.
Yeah, Well, I'm Off
39.
Ladies And Gentlemen
40.
Quite Honestly, Jean
41.
We're All Out For Good Old Number One - reprise
42.
I've Just Come To Tell You About The Wife
43.
Why Should I Care
about
On the far side of middle age, Archie Rice lives in a British seaside resort with his father, retired successful vaudevillian Billy Rice, second wife Phoebe Rice, and doting son Frank Rice. Following in retired Billy's footsteps, Archie is a song-and-dance music hall headliner, with Frank supporting his dad as his shows' stage manager. The waning popularity of Archie's type of shows, a dying form of entertainment, is not helped by Archie's stale second rate material, which brings in small unappreciative crowds. Archie clings to his long held lifestyle, including heavy drinking and chronic infidelity, of which Phoebe is aware. What Archie has not told his offspring is that Phoebe was his mistress while he was still married to their now deceased mother. His want to be a music hall headliner is despite his financial problems, he an undischarged bankrupt who now signs Phoebe's name to everything. Phoebe wants them to escape this life to something more stable, such as the offer from her...
This recording is taken from the original cast recording at The Palace Theatre (London) September 17, 1957
John Osborne wrote his play "The Entertainer" specifically at the request of Sir Laurence Olivier, who wanted the "Angry Young Man" of the British theater to create a vehicle for him, one of the figures of the British Establishment, against whom Osborne was rebelling. Olivier hoped that appearing in the Osborne play would make him relevant to a new generation of theatergoers. It proved to be one of Olivier's greatest stage successes (the Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, has a plaque on the outside wall commemorating Olivier's appearance there during the U.S. tour of the play), while this movie won him the sixth of his ten acting Academy Award nominations. His performance as Archie Rice, as well as his marriage to his young co-star Dame Joan Plowright, one of the leading actresses of the new wave of British thespians, did keep Olivier contemporary with the new leaders of the British theater. Conversely, his generational contemporaries, including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, and playwright Terence Rattigan, started to seem stout and old-fashioned, as they failed to keep up with the theatrical evolution (Gielgud countered with the role of Julian in Edward Albee's obscure "Tiny Alice" on Broadway in 1962, but outside of the classical repertoire, he and Richardson did not recover their cachet as actors in contemporary plays until the mid 1970s, in Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land".) Olivier helped shepherd the new generation of actors, actresses, directors, and playwrights as the head of the National Theatre in the 1960s and early 1970s.
credits
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Laurence Oliver, Joan Plowright, George Relph, Brenda de Banzie, and Richard Pasco
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