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Fings and Wot Not

Oct 24, 2018
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In 1960, Lionel Bart wrote the music and lyrics for his first show, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be.  (He'd written a musical previously, Lock Up Your Daughters, based on a novel by Henry Fielding, but only provided the lyrics to the joyful score.)  The show about the low-life world of London was very small, but very successful, running for two years, with 886 performances.



I'm not enamored with the score, but it has a wonderful title song.  There's no footage of the original production that I can find, but a London revival was done in 2014 at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, and the two stars performed that title song on a morning show.  Here 'tis --

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