They're Playing Our Song
25th July - 28th September
STARRING
CONNIE FISHER & ALISTAIR MCGOWAN
Vernon Gersch, a neurotic and successful composer with a host of awards, is paired up with the lovably eccentric Sonia Walsk – a young lyricist who is a hopeless time-keeper and dresses in cast off theatre costumes.The unlikely pairing seems destined to falter off key; can Vernon’s egotistical bachelor lifestyle cope with Sonia’s ex-boyfriend and her multiple personalities?
As their working relationship grows, so do their feelings for each other, to make sweet music all they have to do is work in harmony…
They’re Playing Our Song is a semi autobiographical story based on the relationship between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. This warm and witty musical romance stars Connie Fisher (star of The Sound of Music and winner of BBC’s How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?) alongside the Olivier nominated Alistair McGowan (Little Shop of Horrors; the Mikado; Cabaret). Director Fiona Laird returns to the Chocolate Factory after the success of The Common Pursuit. Her other credits include Cinderella (Old Vic) and Oh, What a Lovely War! (NT).
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A one time rehearsal pianist on Funny Girl, Marvin Hamlisch is one of only two men to have been awarded all five of the major awards in American entertainment. A Tony and a Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line, a Grammy and an Oscar for the score for The Way We Were, and an Emmy for Barbra Streisand, The Concert.
Carole Bayer Sager had her first hit as a lyricist with A Groovy Kind of Love in 1965 and has collaborated with Bacharach, Neil Diamond, Bette Midler and Bob Dylan. She co-wrote, with Marvin Hamlisch, the Bond theme Nobody Does It Better, and received an Oscar for Arthur’s Theme from the 1982 Dudley Moore film Arthur.