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Salad Days

Newly acquired BA gowns hang heavy on the shoulders of Jane and Timothy. Having got this far, what on earth do they do next? They could get married, of course (so they do), but how can they make a living?

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: 1950s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Newly acquired BA gowns hang heavy on the shoulders of Jane and Timothy. Having got this far, what on earth do they do next? They could get married, of course (so they do), but how can they make a living? In a London park one breathlessly warm summer day they encounter a tramp who trundles round a mobile mini-piano. Even tramps need a holiday now and then, and he invites the young graduates to look after his business interests for a month at £7 per week plus whatever they can collect. The piano is not just any old mobile mini; those who hear it find themselves dancing, even against their better judgment. On this gentle thread of story is strung a series of revue-type scenes providing rich opportunities for versatile comedy players who can also sing and dance. 

The production which ran for 2,283 record-breaking performances at the Vaudeville had a cast of twelve, plus a pianist, who between them played fifty-five roles of assorted lengths - the star of one scene being required, perhaps, to do no more than walk on in the next. Needless to say, there is every opportunity for an imaginative producer to use a much larger cast.


Premiere Production: Salad Days premiered in the UK at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5, 1954. The show ran for 2,283 performances, making it - at the time - the longest-running show in musical theatre history.
  • Casting: 7M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting
  • Chorus Size: Flexible

Name Price
Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

1 x Libretto
1 x Vocal Book

$24.00
Libretto This is optional. Order Now

Newly acquired BA gowns hang heavy on the shoulders of Jane and Timothy. Having got this far, what on earth do they do next? They could get married, of course (so they do), but how can they make a living? In a London park one breathlessly warm summer day they encounter a tramp who trundles round a mobile mini-piano. Even tramps need a holiday now and then, and he invites the young graduates to look after his business interests for a month at £7 per week plus whatever they can collect. The piano is not just any old mobile mini; those who hear it find themselves dancing, even against their better judgment. On this gentle thread of story is strung a series of revue-type scenes providing rich opportunities for versatile comedy players who can also sing and dance.

The production which ran for 2,283 record-breaking performances at the Vaudeville had a cast of twelve, plus a pianist, who between them played fifty-five roles of assorted lengths - the star of one scene being required, perhaps, to do no more than walk on in the next. Needless to say, there is every opportunity for an imaginative producer to use a much larger cast.

$24.95
Vocal Score This is optional. Order Now

Salad Days - Vocal Score by Slade & Reynolds.

Contains all the songs from the musical arranged for Piano and Vocal. Titles Include: Things That Are Done By a Don, We Said We Wouldn't Look Back, I Sit In The Sun, Oh Look At Me, Out Of Breath, Cleopatra, Sand In My Eyes, We Don't Understand Our Children, We're Looking For A Piano, Hush Hush, Find Yourself Something To Do and More.

$39.95
Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

Piano
Double Bass
Drums

There is no special arrangement for two pianos. For productions accompanied in this way, both pianists should play from the published piano/vocal score, the second using it as the basis for improvisation to give added depth and colour.

$30.00 +$30.00/pm