50s smash-hit musical returns to where it all began
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By Susie Weldon
Back in the 1950s Salad Days was a smash hit for Bristol Old Vic. Originally written for Bristol Old Vic’s Theatre School in 1954, Salad Days saved the theatre from closure, transferred to London’s Vaudeville Theatre for five and a half years and become one of the happiest, most popular and longest running musicals in British history.
Now it’s coming back at the theatre where it all began on Thursday and Friday, when Tete a Tete production company brings a unique concert version of its successful revival of Salad Days.
Bellowhead: The biggest, rowdiest and, quite possibly, best thing to have happened to English folk for a long time
It’s all part of Bristol Old Vic’s Winter Song music programme, aimed at making full use of the superb acoustics in its auditorium.
Award-winning junk folk big band Bellowhead will be previewing their new album there tomorrow when, for the first time, the seats will be removed to turn the auditorium into a dance floor.
Bellowhead – dubbed “the biggest, rowdiest and, quite possibly, best thing to have happened to English folk for a long time” by Q magazine – has won five consecutive nominations for best live band in BBC Radio Folk Awards.
Winter Song also features Elvis Costello’s muse, the folk queen June Tabor, who puts on an evening of sea-inspired music, poetry and song with acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale on Friday.
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