"Cold Comfort Farm" or "What Happened in the Woodshed": A New Musical adapted from Stella Gibbons by Alexander Faris and Robin Miller
"Cold Comfort Farm" or "What Happened in the Woodshed": A New Musical adapted from Stella Gibbons by Alexander Faris and Robin Miller
£1,250.00
A comic and camp original musical adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbon’s best known novel and one of the funniest ever written. Miller was best known as writer of “Dames at Sea” which helped launch Bernadette Peters’s career. Faris was a distinguished conductor and composer of film and TV music (Georgy Girl, Upstairs Downstairs). Never known to be performed, no other known copies. Two act play with 17 musical numbers, lyrics only included here.
London, privately printed, no date, likely 1970s. 100 pages. 25.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm. Playscript, stapled, bound with black tape, sunned green card cover with typed label. Some fading, light mark to back cover, in very good condition.