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WILDEST DREAMS
 

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To catch a flavour of Wildest Dream's atmosphere, we have only to read the list of scenes. Here are the scenes as listed in the London programme with the scenes as listed for the premiere at Cheltenham in parentheses. ["] denotes the same listing as for London.
 ACT I
Scene 1 Opening ["]
Scene 2 Nelderham ["]
Scene 3 Mrs Birdview's ["]
Scene 4 Nelderham ["]
Scene 5 Clumpington Hill ["]
Scene 6 The Hotel Dining-Room [Radenham Hotel, the dining-room]
Scene 7 Nelderham ["]
Scene 8 Harriet's Flat [Harriet's House]
Scene 9 Harriet's Dressing able [A Park]
Scene 10 Harriet's Flat and Garden [Harriet's Dressing-Table]
[Scene11 Harriet's House]
 

 ACT II
Scene 1 Public House [A Park]
Scene 2 Mark's Room ["]
Scene 3 Harriet's Flat [Harriet's Room]
Scene 4 Nelderham ["]
Scene 5 Mrs Birdview's ["]
Scene 6 Nelderham ["]
Scene 7 Clumpington Hill [The Pub]*
Scene 8 Nelderham [Harriet's Room]
Scene 9 Harriet's Flat [Clumpington Hill]

* In the Bristol programme Act II Scene 7 was given as 'London'
And why did 'Harriet's House' [as it originally was at Cheltenham] become 'Harriet's Flat' for London?


'Oh what a wild dream'… Julian Slade and expressionism

The last of the Slade-Reynolds collaborations, Wildest Dreams was received with such vitriolic criticism when it opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in August 1961 that Reynolds told Slade their partnership should not continue. The show, reconstituted for London after an original touring version, replaced leading man Dennis Quilley with the less stellar John Baddeley, previously featured in Slade and Reynolds's Follow That Girl.

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