AND SO TO BED
Book by J.B. Fagan. Lyrics & Music by Vivian Ellis
Opened London October 1951 (323 performances)
Synopsis
This is the musical adaptation of a play by J.B. Fagan about the English
Elizabethan diarist, Samuel Pepys.
Vivian Ellis contributed an intriguing 17th century style score containing
a mixture of musical influences such as a madrigal, jig, saraband and
rigaudon in a variety of numbers including:
- Love Me Little, Love Me Long
- Gaze Not On the Swans
- Amo, Amas
- And So To Bed
- Bartholomew Fair
- Moppety Mo
- Beauty Retire
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