I'm playing Bb clarinet, bass clarinet and alto sax in the pit for "Blitz! The Musical"by Lionel Bart. It's being put on by The Company of Four - an amateur dramatics group based in Woodbridge, Ipswich.
"Blitz! is a story that draws on Bart's childhood memories of London's Jewish East End during the Blitz and, like most musicals, centred on a romance between a young couple, in this case a Jewish woman and a Cockney man, although the largest role and main point-of-view character is that of Mrs. Blitztein, the young woman's mother. Steven Suskin describes it as "Abie's Irish Rose set against the burning of Atlanta." Bart himself described the play as "…three human stories inside an epic canvas; the major human conflict—the major plot—personifies the spirit of London and how that spirit developed during the period of the piece."
Being shown at the Riverside Theatre, Woodbridge 21st-25th June!
