Daisy Pulls It Off in West End This Spring???

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is mounting a revival of Denise Deegan's comedy Daisy Pulls It Off. Auditions started this week for the production, which is scheduled to open in the West End this April or May - probably at one of the Really Useful theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, though almost certainly not at the Gielgud (previously named the Globe, Daisy Pulls It Off, opened there in 1982) where Charlotte Jones' Best New Play award-winner Humble Boy has just re-opened after its hit National run. Set in 1927, Daisy Pulls It Off follows the trials and tribulations of Daisy Meredith, who's won a scholarship to Grangewood School for girls but has to battle against her upper-crust peers to stay in the school and on the hockey team. The new production will reunite Daisy's original creative team, headed by director David Gilmour, although the cast will comprise mainly unknowns as it did in the 1980s. Many of those past unknowns - including Samantha Bond - have gone on to be very well known indeed. In previous incarnations, Daisy Pulls It Off ran for three years in the West End and toured for two years. It has also perennially revived by regional theatres, amateur dramatics societies and, not surprisingly, girls' schools.

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