Overture/Tra La La/I’m Away/Follow That Girl/Life Must Go On/Three Victorian Mermaids/Doh Ray Me/Song & Dance/The Chase/Taken For A Ride/Solitary Stranger/Shopping In Kensington/Lovely Meeting You At Last/ Waiting For Our Daughter/One Two Three One/Evening In London/Finale
The London cast musical Follow That Girl starred Peter Gilmore and Susan Hampshire. It opened in March 1960 at the Vaudeville Theatre and ran for 211 performances. Set in Victorian times, the plot concerns a daughter who flees her family home as a result of her father's insistence that she immediately choose between two suitors. Music by Julian Slade, lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds. (UK:5)
“Love the show and the songs. Pity they are not sung now and were not particularly well known at the time. Story a little weak perhaps, but well sung and you can sense the enjoyment of the cast as they sing.”
“If you like Peter Gilmore's voice, this is a must for you. His songs are strong and yet sympathetic and fun. My favourite song is Song & Dance where he sings against and with the cast and of course, the title song. The words to the final song are particularly good. Enjoyed and replayed often.”
“When all is over, one remembers happy moments rather than sustained delight. The song from which the play is named, for instance, is excellently sung by Peter Gilmore as Tom."
“The plot is nothing, but from the first wax-work group assembled at a soiree musicale, the show possesses an immaculately pointed style that breaks down the distinction between satire and whimsicality. There is not a single 'natural' movement in the production; instead there is a flowing choreography of exaggeration. The music, leaning alternately on Offenbach and Ivor Novello, has a spirit and turn of phrase that rescues even the scenes of insipid romance; and Susan Hampshire, bobbing a head of blonde curls before a pursuing crowd gave the title a conclusive justification.”
“The music is of the tinkling kind with nothing approaching the charm of the score of Salad Days.”
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