More than two decades since it first appeared on British television screens, Hi-De-Hi is being revived as a newly devised stage adaptation, in collaboration with the original series creators Jimmy Perry & David Croft.
The production is coming to Festival Theatre in Malvern 9th to 14th August 2010 and we have two pairs of tickets to give away!
Set in the fictional seaside town of Crimpton-on-Sea, Essex, in a 50’s holiday-camp called ‘Maplins’, the BAFTA award-winning HI-DE-HI! is based, in-part, on Perry’s time as a Butlins Red-coat, after being de-mobbed from the Army - with the traditional Butlins Red-coats exchanged for Yellow ones. The part carry-on-style farce, part comedy and part nostalgic romp, became the regular diet to sitcom viewers in the 80s, commanding 13-million viewers; its title becoming a catchphrase echoed throughout the land. 58-episodes and a West-End musical later, HI-DE-HI! closed its doors to holiday campers with the final episode being broadcast in January 1988.
The brand-new tour will star original TV-cast members, BARRY HOWARD & NIKKI KELLY as the professional ballroom dancing couple, Barry & Yvonne Stuart-Hargreaves; PETER AMORY - best-known for playing the infamously unscrupulous Chris Tate in ITV’s ‘Emmerdale’ - in the role of Jeffrey Fairbrother; SKY 1’s ‘Are You Smarter Than Your Ten Year-Old?’ presenter, DAMIAN WILLIAMS, as Maplins Camp Host Ted Bovis; ABIGAIL FINLEY - from BBC’s ‘How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?’ - in the role of the over-excitable Chalet maid and Yellow-coat wannabe, Peggy Ollerenshaw.
The story begins as former University Lecturer Prof. Jeffrey Fairbrother joins the Holiday Camp as the new Entertainments Manager. He immediately arouses the amorous attentions of Gladys Pugh, the funny Welsh Chief Yellow-coat and Sports Organizer, who tries all she can to tempt the new man with persistently comical romantic approaches. Whilst Jeffrey has no real idea of how to be the Entertainments Manager, the camp host Ted Bovis, who thought he was going to be promoted to Jeffrey’s position himself, and his protégé, the naïve but warm-hearted camp comic Spike Dixon, try to keep all the campers amused with their antics, jokes, sketches, song, dance, choruses of “Throw him in the Pool” and, of course, the famous cry of “Hi-de-Hi”. The cast also features the slightly dubious ex-jockey and Holiday Camp riding instructor, Fred Quilly; the children’s entertainer, who can’t bear children, Mr William Partridge; the condescending ballroom partners Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves, plus the Chalet Maid Peggy Ollerenshaw, who dreams of becoming one of the famous ‘Maplins’ Yellow-coats.
To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to Hi-De-Hi! Simply answer the following question and fill in your details in our entry form by Thursday 5th August 2010.
Thursday 5th August 2010
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Q. When was the final episode of Hi-De-Hi! broadcast?
