The Solid Gold Cadillac

Synopsis

Mrs Laura Partridge is an elderly lady. She holds a few shares in the General Products Corporation of America. Recently retired from the stage, she decides to use some of her new-found leisure to attend a shareholders' AGM. At first, the newly promoted senior management of the GPCA barely registers her presence. But not for long. When it comes to confirming their massive salary increases by proxy vote, they find she has some rather awkward questions to ask.

Our Review:

28 September 2004

With a plot that includes small shareholder revolt at boardroom fat cat salaries and tiny companies being taken over by much larger ones and then promptly annihilated, the one thing you can't say about Howard Teichmann and George S Kaufman's 51-year-old Broadway comedy The Solid Gold Cadillac is that it's dated.

First seen on Broadway in 1953 and in the West End in 1965, it could still be plucked from the pages of the Daily Mail or a scene from a Michael Moore film. Throw in a corporate scandal of aggressive lobbying for government contracts to the company's former chairman who is now installed in Washington, and Donald Rumsfeld immediately comes to mind.

But despite the strenuous efforts of an engaging, hard-working cast in Ian Brown's slick production, what you unfortunately also can't say about The Solid Gold Cadillac is that it is particularly funny, either. The gentle air of amusement soon gives way...

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80.176.140.250) - 23 October 2004:

Very dull I'm afraid. The opening scene was interminable, and things didn't really improve from there. We left at the interval....

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