TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS - MCSR 3010

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The story of dear little Tom Brown and his troublesome boyhood at Rugby School has endured many adaptations, but none as invigorating as this 1972 London musical. Chris Andrews’ music for this spectacular, innocent and unpretentiously entertaining show is zestful and appealing, moving from sentimental to jolly to heart-rending in the switch of a schoolmaster’s cane. Here at last, in gloriously roomy Decca sound, we can relish the love affair at Rugby School between the upright (or should that be uptight?) Dr Arnold (Roy Dotrice)  and his doting Matron, sung by the wonderfully torch-singing Judith Bruce. You can hear Dr Arnold ask the perhaps worrying question ‘What is a man?’ (he is supposed to be running a boys’ school, for goodness sake), and you can share in his shimmering ‘Vision of Youth’.  A big show with a generous score.

With: Roy Dotrice, Judith Bruce, Leon Greene, Adam Walton