RAY DAVIES in COME DANCING
Theatre Royal Stratford East
London, UK
2008-10-30

Lineage: SP-BMC-2 -> Tascam DR-1 -> SoundForge (normalise) -> CDWave -> MacFLAC -> YOU

Book/Music/Lyrics: Ray Davies
Cast (As best as I can make out from an iffy photo)

Hamilton - Delroy Atkinson
(Can't read) - Bradley Clarkson
Storyteller - Ray Davies
(Can't read) - Marcus Ellard
(Can't read) - Anthony Flaum
Frankie - Alasdair Harvey
Annie - Samantha Hughes
Brenda - Katherine James
Sid - Stephen Lloyd
Rose - Katey Munroe
Alf - Tony Timberlake
Julie - Gemma Salter

Musical by RAY DAVIES of THE KINKS about the personalities inhabiting an East End dance palais on the edge of the rock era.

ACT ONE
1. Intro/So Tired...
2. Come Dancing
3. Dialogue 1
4. My Big Sister
5. Putting on the Face/My Big Sister B
6. Dialogue 2
7. A New Rhythm
8. Saturday Night
9. When The Band Begins To Play
10. A Penny For Your Thoughts
11. Dialogue 3
12. Because I'm Yours
13. Stevenage
14. Dialogue 4
15. I've Got A Knife
16. Dialogue 5
17. Just An Empty Space
18. Dialogue 6
19. Dialogue 7
20. Come Dancing (1. Reprise)
21. Rehearsing
22. Rock 'till I Drop
23. Dialogue 8
24. Believe In Yourself
25. There's Gonna Be More
26. Palais Medley
27. Dialogue 9
28. Palais Medley B (Act 1 Finale)

ACT TWO
1. Entracte
2. Come Dancing (2. Reprise)
3. Dialogue 10
4. The Wedding Quickstep
5. A Penny For Your Thoughts/Wedding Quickstep (Reprise)/Dialogue 11
6. Believe In Yourself (Reprise)
7. Dialogue 12
8. Wherever I Go
9. I Know This Girl
10. Dialogue 13
11. And Whatever The Cost
12. In Heaven
13. Puttin' on the Face (Reprise)/Dialogue 14
14. Let Her Grow
15. When The Band Begins To Play (Reprise)
16. Downfall
17. In Heaven (Reprise)
18. Come Dancing (3. Reprise/Epilogue)
19. Rhythm of the Dance (Finale)
20. Curtain Call (Come Dancing)
21. Come Dancing (Encore)

Notes: Recorded from the circle, the person next to me has a few occasional outbursts but nothing major and not usually over a song. Nothing too annoying but they're there. Show is good, cast great, and most of the songs are entirely new for the show (and hopefully tagged correctly). A new tour, starring Davies again, will be going up sometime next year, so if you like what you hear, check the local listings and book tickets.

Also, I tracked this ages ago using an older version of CDWave, hence the funky file names. Regardless, the show *IS* complete and the quality is (to toot my own horn) pretty good.