Joyce Grenfell: Monologues and Songs “Her All New Program”

Sketches and Lyrics: Joyce Grenfell Music: Richard Addinsell Producers: Roger L. Stevens and Laurier Lister; Costumes: Joyce Grenfell’s dresses by Victor Stiebel Cast: Joyce Grenfell, George Bauer (Piano) The revue was presented in two acts. Sketches and Musical Numbers All numbers performed by Joyce Grenfell, and all music played by George Bauer. British satirist Joyce Grenfell returned to Broadway in Joyce Grenfell: Monologues and Songs, which followed her 1955 revue Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure . . . The new offering reprised “A Thought for Today,” “Three Brothers,” “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” and “Shirley’s Girlfriend” (here “Shirl’s Girl Friend”), and “Nursery School: Free Activity Period” was probably the earlier “Nursery School.” Like the earlier revue, most of the music was composed by Richard Addinsell. Best Plays said Grenfell was “again a gaily chirping mockingbird and impeccably well-bred ape.” Her range was not “large,” her sallies didn’t cut “very deep,” and perhaps “half a loaf of her” was better “than all of one.” But if her art was “thin” it was also “pure” and she was indeed an artist.

Music

Richard Addinsell

Lyrics

Joyce Grenfell