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Re: New tribute to Kenneth Williams

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Paul WimsettMar 14, 2009
 

 
'Stop Messing About' was in fact a radio show running from 1969 to 1970, co-starring Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. It has been mostly forgetten.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
> The continuing interest in Kenneth Williams says something. It would
> surely have surprised the man himself!
>
> West End tribute to Williams
> New comedy about Carry On star
>
> A new tribute show to Kenneth Williams is to open in London's West End
> next month.
>
> Stop Messing About has been created by the same team that created the
> previous nostalgia show Round The Horne… Revisited.
>
> Writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke have again set the show as if
> it was a recording for a BBC rado revue show, hosted by Williams with
> Jules and Sandy collaborator Hugh Paddick, Carry On co-star Joan Sims
> and announcer Douglas Smith.
>
> Robin Sebastian, Nigel Harrison and Charles Armstrong reprise their
> roles as Williams, Paddick and Smith from Round The Horne Revisited,
> wile Emma Atkins – best known as Charity Dingle in Emmerdale – will play
> Sims.
>
> Between them, Mortimer and Cooke wrote such sitcoms as Man Abut The
> House, George and Mildred and Robin's Nest as well as writing for the
> likes of Bernard Cribbins, Marty Feldman, Frankie Howerd, Bruce Forsyth,
> Ronnie Barker and Tommy Cooper.
>
> Stop Messing About opens at the Leicester Square Theatre on Wednesday
> April 15 and runs until Sunday May 24.
>

 
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