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George Banks recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe.
Me and the Girls
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01 Dec 1985
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The Noël Coward short story this BBC television film is based on has recently been adapted into a full stage musical which has toured Europe to great success. It's easy to see why. Despite the story's relative obscurity, it offers a window into every part of Coward's genius: as a humourist, as a dramatist, as a songwriter, the classicist and the modernist, the purveyor of cosy comedies and the acid-tongued provocateur. It's all in this tightly packed 55 minutes.
It begins in full-on musical mode, with Tom Courtenay's George Banks joining his all-female musical troupe on stage for an energetic number. (Jack Gold's direction works nicely around a few budgetary hurdles here; Courtenay seems to have learned some opening steps,…