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Daisy Pulls if Off

Lyric Theatre, West End
From: Thursday, 18th April 2002
To: Saturday, 8 June 2002

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Synopsis

It's 1927 and Daisy Meredith is the first scholarship girl taken from an elementary school to be allowed access to the hallowed halls of Grangewood School for Young Ladies. Enthusiastic and plucky to the last, Daisy finds herself struggling against unspeakable snobs Sybil and Monica and their ghastly schemes to get her expelled. Ably assisted by her new best friend, madcap and self styled poet, Trixie Martin, Daisy finds herself caught up in a series of irresistible adventures including the search for missing treasure. Can they work out the mysterious clues and save the school from closure? Or will they be beaten by the enigmatic Mr Scoblowski? This riotous and affectionate pastiche of the classic girls' school story was a huge West End hit and won the Olivier Award and Drama Theatre Award for Best Comedy. Full of hilarious characters and splendid scrapes Daisy Pulls it Off celebrates, with a sly wit and a big heart, an arguably sweeter, more innocent era.

Our Review:

30 April 2002

Jolly hockey sticks - Daisy Pulls it Off is back in the West End! If that sentence sounds fun to you, then maybe the prospect of two and a half hours worth of sustained sentiments like that may entice you to the Lyric.

Previously transported from the Grangewood School for Young Ladies (whose annual school play this ostensibly is) by way of Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983, Daisy became the unlikely but not unlikeable winner of the Society of West End Theatre Award (the previous name for the Oliviers) for Best Comedy. It has now returned to Shaftesbury Avenue, then as now under the patronage of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has also provided the tune for the school song under the acronym, Beryl Waddle-Browne.

Clearly, there is something in its Jeeves-like all-English sensibility of class comedy and consciousness that appeals to the composer of shows that have, except for Lloyd Webber's biggest failure By Jeeves, transcended those bou...

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