The World Wide Gangshow Forum

There is no better example of how Gang Show has influenced the Professional Theatre than Alan Bennett's Play 'Forty Years On' which was first Performed at the Apollo Theatre here in London on the 31st October 1968.I knew from that first performance that Gang Show had made it back on to the West End Stage after being away for some thirty years. [the last Scala Show was 1938,and Golders Green is not the West-End].The Play within a Play is set in a Boy's Public School Albion House and contains some of Alan Bennetts best writing.The Play is infact a History of England from the time of the First World War and contains Music and Songs from the various Periods.The Boy's and School Staff take on the Characters in the Play and the Headmaster who at one point miss quotes BP has the manner and character of a kindly Scout Master.John Gielguid took the role in the first Production which placed his contribution to that found in his second Screen Role as Inigo Jollifant in the Film of J.B. Priestly's 'The Good Companions' in 1932 where the best Scene in the Film is set in a Music publishers Office not unlike the Scene in Ralph's 1937 Gang Show Film.Dr.Stu..