Stepping Out - the Musical

Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead - 20 November, 1996 - 14 December, 1996
Albery Theatre, London - 28 October, 1997 - 28 February. 1998

Music by Denis King; Lyrics by Mary Stewart-David; Book by Richard Harris (based on the original play by Richard Harris)

Stepping Out, which enjoyed a hugely successful West End run and won Evening Standard Best Comedy Award for 1984, is a warm and very funny play about the lives of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall. As the play progresses, the class's dancing improves to such an extent that by the climax, a grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line. The musical version lifts the story to a new dimension.

Musical Numbers:

1. One Night a Week - Mavis & Company
2. Quite - Andy & Geoffrey
3. Don't Ask Me - Rose & Company
4. Love To - Dorothy & Lynne
5. What Do Men Think? - Sylvia, Maxine, Rose, Dorothy
6. Too Much - Mavis
7. Never Feel the Same Again - Andy & Geoffrey
8. Definitely You - Vera & Company
9. One Night a Week (Reprise) - Company
10. Not Quite - Geoffrey
11. Just the Same - Maxine
12. What I Want - Rose, Sylvia, Maxine, & Dorothy
13. Once More - Maxine and Mavis
14. Loving Him - Rose, Mavis, Andy & Vera
15. Stepping Out - Company

Discography:

Original London Cast Recording - First Night Scene CD24