I first heard Kit and The Widow perform this song (along with a number of their others) at the Vaudeville Theatre back in 1993. At that time I was an unemployed actor living in Hackney and was part of a group of actors who met at the Holborn Actors Centre on a Thursday under the direction of casting director Richard Evans.
Richard was (and is) a very enterprising man and full of good ideas, one of which was to offer the group as an audience for shows that were not quite sold out. No performer ever wants to play to a half empty theatre so we agreed to fill any left over seats for free and as a result got to see some top West End Shows of which Kit and The Widow’s was one. The idea that we were getting free seats for West End Shows while ‘doing them a favour’ was a stroke of genius.
You really need to listen to this song to really appreciate it and when you do I am sure you will recognise a lot of the music…
I am often reminded of ‘Lobachevsky’ by Tom Lehrer when I hear this which has the wonderful line ‘Plagiarize, Plagiarize – let no one else’s work evade your eyes…’
Enjoy….
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