Showlist M
 MAKE ME AN OFFER
Book by Wolf Mankowitz; Music & lyrics by David Heneker and
Monty Norman
Theatre Royal, Stratford East - 19th October 1959
New Theatre - 16th December 1959 (267 perfs)
Awards - Evening Standard Award for Best Musical 1959
Synopsis
Make Me An Offer is set in the world of the
small-time antique dealers in and around the Portobello Road Market in
London. Charlie, an expert in Wedgwood china, longs to own a beautiful
piece for himself. His chance comes when he is involved in an auction
for a complete (fake) Wedgwood room - and he ends up with a valuable (genuine)
vase. Charlie's main rival dealer in the saga is the stunning Redhead,
and his wife, Sally.
Principal Songs
- The Pram Song - Charlie and Sally
- Portobello Road - Dealers, Shoppers and Gwen
- Dog Eat Dog - Quartet of dealers with Wendl
- First Needle Recitative - Wendl and Sparta
- I Want a Lock-Up - Charlie with dealers
- If I Was A Man - Sally with Gwen and girls
- Business Is Business - Redhead with Dealers
- Americans' Entrance - Moishe and Paddy
- Concerning Fleas - Wendl and Sparta
- All Big Fleas - Wendl
- Fanfare For Fleas - Quartet of dealers
- Concerning Capital - Ensemble with Sweeting
- Love Him - Sally
- Sally's Lullaby - Sally
- Make Me An Offer - Redhead
- Whatever You Believe - Redhead and Charlie
- Second Needle Recitative - Wendl and Sparta
- Break Up - Chorus
- The Auction - Ensemble with Auctioneer
- It's Sort Of Romantic - Gwen - interpolation by Sally
- Knock-Out - Wendl and Ensemble
- Third Needle Recitative - Wendl and Sparta
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Cast:
Charlie - a young dealer
Sally - his wife
Wendl - an important dealer
Sparta - a demolition dealer
Gwen - his daughter
Redhead - a lady dealer
Sweeting - an American dealer
Mindel - an American dealer
Fred - an unimportant dealer
Moishe - a Jewish dealer
Milton - a Cockney dealer
Paddy - an Irish dealer
Bernard - A Cockney dealer
Taffy - a runner
John True - a country auctioneer
Chorus of Stall-Holders, Trippers and Shoppers
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Setting
The play is set in a world of dealers bounded by the Portobello Road,
before Wedgwood was fashionable
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