NOËL COWARD DOUBLE-BILL

Take a trip back to the 1930s of Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence in this first co-production between Scarborough’s UK Foundation For Dance and Pickering Musical Society, a double-bill of Coward’s comedy, wit and music.

NOËL & GERTIE

The first half is a revue introducing the legendary stage partnership and lifelong friendship of Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, with songs by Coward, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Bill Scott on piano accompanies Tim Tubbs and Rachel Anderson (co-stars of Pickering’s 2025 hit Hello, Dolly!) as the famous duo.

RED PEPPERS

One of nine short plays written to showcase Noël Coward & Gertrude Lawrence in the 1936 production Tonight At 8.30, this comic “interlude with music”, set in a Northern town’s palace of varieties, features a feuding husband and wife in a corny song & dance double act, in the dying days of music hall. Pickering actor Paula Cook join five Scarborough actors in this amusing backstage bickering match, bookended by two hilariously corny song & dance routines.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd