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Our Gracie

Philip Goulding

Genre: Biographic

Cast size: 23

Duration: Two Act

Philip Goulding | Musical | Biographic | 6m, 5f, 12m/f

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Filled with music and infectious, down-to-earth humour, this warm, funny and moving portrait tells the remarkable life of Gracie Fields, in her own words. Our Gracie’s vibrant personality took her from a room above a Rochdale chip shop to international fame and fortune. Her musical recordings sold in the millions and she became one of the highest paid female movie stars in the world. This is the real-life Cinderella story of a working-class lass who became Britain’s greatest female entertainer.

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It's 1960, and Gracie Fields is back in Blighty to promote her autobiography 'Sing As We Go'. The management of a friendly and ambitious repertory theatre persuade Gracie to collaborate with their talented and occasionally mischievous resident company in creating and performing an exciting new show dramatising parts of her amazing life story.

In 'Our Gracie' we join Miss Fields on a journey that begins before she even existed. We eavesdrop on the first meeting of her mother and father; we witness her being born; we see her as a millworker; we join her backstage and onstage during her time in ramshackle touring shows; and we're there with her as she achieves West End theatre and worldwide movie success.

Along the way Gracie acquires huge wealth and a trio of husbands, survives a health scare, helps defeat Hitler, and has encounters with George Formby, Gerald du Maurier, Darryl Zanuck, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Liberace.

Though much of her wealth came from films, Gracie never much enjoyed the movie-making process; her greatest love was always live performance.

In that vein, 'Our Gracie' is intended not just as a tribute to Gracie Fields, but also as a celebration of playmaking, comedy and song, and a remembrance of those good old days when every town or city could boast at least one successful producing theatre.

Minimum Cast Size: 5m, 2f  Maximum Cast of 41

Bold names indicate a part with 20 lines or more, or a singing solo/duet, or both.

Actor 1 (1 role)

  • Either one actor:
    Gracie Fields playing ages 22 to 58 (232 lines and 16 songs in Act One and Two)
  • Or two actors:
    Young Gracie, playing ages 22 to 29 (121 lines and 8 songs in Act One)
    Older Gracie, playing ages 39 to 58 (111 lines and 8 songs in Act Two)

Actor 2 (7 roles, 81 lines)

  • Mr Trimble - the actor/manager (21 lines, solo song)
  • George Formby Jr (14 lines, one solo, one duet)
  • Archie Pitt - a comedian, married to Gracie between 1923 and 1939 (17 lines, one solo)
  • Henry Savage - a writer (15 lines)
  • Tunnilclefft-Bagslops - a senior consultant (6 lines, one duet)
  • Lord Castlerosse (5 lines)
  • Val Parnell (3 lines)

Actor 3 (8 roles, 78 lines)

  • Shirley - actor musician (4 lines)
  • Jenny - Gracie’s mum (17 lines, one duet)
  • Dolly - Gracie’s friend and colleague (52 lines, two duets)
  • Ambrosine - Monsieur LeCoq’s daughter (non-speaking)
  • A Nurse (2 lines)
  • A Maid (non-speaking)
  • Edith Piaf (non-speaking, one solo)
  • Vivien Leigh (3 lines)

Actor 4 (3 roles, 41 lines)

  • Morris – actor musician (1 line)
  • Harry Parr-Davies - accompanist (37 lines, two solos, one duet, one trio)
  • Liberace (3 lines)

Actor 5 (10 roles, 93 lines)

  • Sid – actor musician (5 lines)
  • A Stagedoor Keeper (2 lines)
  • Ida - Jenny’s friend (5 lines)
  • Mr Hollingworth - a gaffer (2 lines)
  • Percy Snodgrass - a theatre producer (8 lines)
  • Gerald Du Maurier - an actor manager (34 lines)
  • Monsieur LeCoq - a concerned father (6 lines)
  • Darryl Zanuck (19 lines)
  • A Policeman - ‘Welsh’ (3 lines)
  • Boris Alperovici - married to Gracie from 1952 until her death in 1979 (9 lines, one solo)

Actor 6 (5 roles, 57 lines)

  • Charlie – actor musician (3 lines)
  • Fred - Gracie’s dad (14 lines, one duet)
  • Italian Customs Official (6 lines)
  • Monty Banks - Italian film producer, married to Gracie from 1940 until his death in 1950
    (30 lines, one solo, two duets, one trio)
  • Larry Olivier (4 lines)

Actor 7 (6 roles, 39 lines)

  • Mick – actor musician (5 lines)
  • A Drunk (2 lines)
  • John Flanagan – an artist (14 lines)
  • Mr Searle – a surgeon, from New Zealand (6 lines)
  • Tom Tattle – a newspaperman (3 lines)
  • Jimmy Wheeler (9 lines)

NOTES:

  • In the original production the musical accompaniment was provided by actor musicians:
  • Actor 3 (Shirley), Actor 4 (Morris), Actor 5 (Sid), Actor 6 (Charlie) and Actor 7 (Mick)
  • Some announcers roles are played by members of the cast as appropriate.

"I cannot find one single fault with Our Gracie, it is a wonderful melding of new writing and old school glitz" -
(canal-st.co.uk)

"Fields's dreams come to life in an affectionate homage to Gracie’s progress from a flat above a chip shop to a villa in Capri.. Fans of Sally should find it right up their alley" - (The Guardian) 

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Songs

1)I Took My Harp to the Party - Gracie  

2) I Hate You (Excerpt) - Harry  

3) The Sweetest Song in the World - Gracie & Ensemble 

4) The Ballad of High Noon (Excerpt) - Mr Trimble  

5) Lock, Stock and Barrel - Fred and Jenny  

6) Clatter of the Clogs - Gracie & Ensemble 

7) Ordinary People - George Formby and Gracie  

8) The Window Cleaner - George Formby  

9) Coax Me (Excerpt) - Dolly and Gracie

10) Does This Shop Stock Shot Socks With Spots - Archie Pitt

11) Walter, Walter - Dolly and Gracie

12) A Foggy Day in London Town - Charlie

13) Come Back to Sorrento - Gracie

14) Somewhere - Harry, Gracie, Monty & Company

~~ Interval ~~

15) As Time Goes By - Monty and Gracie

16) The Isle Of Capri (excerpt) - Harry

17) (S)he’s Dead But (S)he Won’t Lie Down - Tunnilclefft-Bagslops, Monty & Company

18) Ave Maria - Gracie & Ensemble

19) Wish Me Luck - Ensemble

20) The Thingummy Bob - Gracie and Harry

21) The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - Monty

22) The Biggest Aspidistra in the World - Gracie & Ensemble

23) La Vie en Rose - Edith Piaf and Gracie

24) Music, Maestro, Please - Dolly

25) September Song - Boris

26) Wish You Were Here - Gracie

27) Sally - Gracie & Company

28) Curtain CallsI - nstrumental

29) Encore: Sing As We GoGracie & Company

30) PlayoutInstrumental

All the songs are easily available standards and as such we do not supply vocal scores or band parts,

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  • Printed Piano/Vocal Score
  • Cast Recording CD (Dialogue in Dutch, Sung in French)

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This contains the script and piano vocal score for your cast and crew provided as A4 pdf files. No problem about possible loss of deposit, as they are yours to print out and mark up as required. The price includes a multiple copying licence allowing you to copy the Data CD itself (enabling you to give or sell copies to your cast for them to make up their own rehearsal books) or to make multiple prints of the pdf's on the Data CD for your production company to organise and provide to your cast or crew.

Please note that we do not sell individual printed copies of libretti, nor do we hire sets of printed rehearsal libretti or scores.

Available after Rights Obtained

  • Backing Tracks - Not available.
  • Orchestrations - These are available for an 6 piece orchestra as below, for hire to production companies only, who hold a valid, unexpired, licence to perform.
  • MD / Keyboard 1
  • Keyboard 2
  • Guitar
  • Violin
  • Cello
  • Drum Kit

We have secured the rights to video productions of this title from the Author, and we manage them on his behalf. Once a 'Licence To Perform' has been granted, and then on payment of a fee, we will be able to issue a 'Licence To Record'. There are some strings attached to this, but these are far outweighed by the benefits.

  • Record one or more live performances and mix down to a single video
  • Give or sell copies to your cast and crew
  • Sell copies to your audiences (take advance bookings on the night)
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All our musicals are included in our perusal service. Under this, representatives of producing organisations can request a USB Stick of Perusal Material  which comprise the script/libretto and piano/vocal score as pdf files; a Cast (or Studio) Recording as mp3 files and (where available) an mp4 file video of either the premiere production or of a subsequent production.

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