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Long-lost Porter back on the stage
By Luke Leitch, Arts Reporter Last updated at 00:00am on 08.11.01A long-lost Cole Porter musical is set to return to the London stage later this month for the first time in nearly 60 years.
Porter wrote the scores for some of the most enduring and popular of musicals, including Anything Goes and Kiss Me Kate, which is currently enjoying a triumphant revival at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
DuBarry Was A Lady, however, has not enjoyed such success - perhaps thanks to its bizarre plot which follows the fortunes of a nightclub's lavatory cleaner caught in the grip of his unrequited love for one of the dancers.
DuBarry Was A Lady is being revived thanks to Lost Musicals, an organisation which has already tracked down and revived near-forgotten musicals by some of Broadway's finest.
Its two performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, on 18 and 25 November, will feature West End talent such as Louise Gold, currently starring in Mamma Mia!, Lauren Ward, who will be appearing in The Vagina Monologues, and Tanya Robb of the recent Peggy Sue Got Married.
DuBarry Was A Lady ran for 403 performances when it first appeared on Broadway - and starred Betty Grable - before transferring to the same theatre where it is to be revived.
One of the songs, Well Did You Evah, is on Robbie Williams's new album of classic rat pack standards, released later this month.
