SPEND SPEND SPEND!
Music by Steve Brown
Book and Lyrics by Steve Brown and Justin Greene
From the book by Viv Nicholson and Stephen Smith
Directed by Craig Revel Horwood
Musical Supervisor and arrangements by Sarah Travis
Designed by Diego Pitarch
Lighting by Richard G Jones Sound by Chris Full
Scraping by on seven quid a week with her husband and three kids in a tiny terraced house in Castleford, Yorkshire, Viv Nicholson’s life was as near rock bottom as it could get. Until that day in 1961 when Viv borrowed £5 from her Mam to play the Pools and she was catapulted from obscurity to fame with the biggest win ever - £152,319 (£5 million today). And that was it, Viv and Keith’s lives changed overnight and Viv declared to the world she was going to spend, spend, spend. ‘Booze, big cars, big spending, big headlines’ and a succession of husbands soon led to bankruptcy.
From rags to riches and back to rags again, a gritty and poignant musical about the extraordinary story of a brash and naïve, northern lass brought to you by the same creative team behind recent Watermill hit shows, Sunset Boulevard, Martin Guerre and Hot Mikado.
Tickets from £12.50 to £23 Tel: 01635 46044
Thu 9th Jul - Sat 29th Aug
Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
Saturday 29 August performances at 1.30pm and 6.30pm
The Watermill Theatre
Bagnor
Newbury RG20 8AE
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