Stinkfoot Stanshall Vivian
Stinkfoot Stanshall Vivian A musical comedy, or, as Vivian Stanshall would have it, an English Comic Opera in The Grand Tradition. This book documents these shows. Stanshall (1943-95) wrote it…
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Stinkfoot Stanshall Vivian
A musical comedy, or, as Vivian Stanshall would have it, an English Comic Opera in The Grand Tradition. This book documents these shows. Stanshall (1943-95) wrote it together with his wife, Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, for their Old Profanity Showboat in Bristol, where it was staged by the Crackpot Theatre Company in December 1985.
The comedy is set in a typically English end-of-the-pier theatre, where the once great music hall artiste Soliquisto and his company have descended for a week. It contains the script of the musical, the lyrics of the songs, photographs, artwork by Vivian Stanshall, and an introduction by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall. Nine years earlier Soliquisto's greatest creation, a singing and dancing cat called Stinkfoot, disappeared mysteriously from the very same theatre.
Soliquisto still mourns for the loss of this talented cat and is shrouded in memories of better