Bernadette - The People's Musical

Hi! I am intrigued by the musical phenomenon that was 'Bernadette'! Perhaps one of the most notorious London flops - the concept album is quite fun, especially 'Watch Me Begin'. Did anyone see the show? I understand Meredith Braun was in the original cast. Did she play Bernadette? Wish I'd seen this one - it sounds a hoot!

PS: - I've tried to change my user id (obviously not really Petula Clark, just a fan and especially 'Someone Like you'!!!!)

Updated On: 1/9/11 at 12:04 PM

What a fun night this was.
The sets were amazing and are probably doing the panto rounds as we speak!!!!

Barely running a month, it actually sold out every performance it played. Such was the incredible word of mouth , people just flocked to it!
The album makes you wonder how they even got that far!

It was pure car crash musical theatre!

It became a limited engagement quite naturally ... or by divine intervention, ... not sure

I was there on opening night. I remember Sheridan Morley the next day on television giving his review: "It was like watching a plate of liver."

Actually, it was wonderfully, spectacularly awful. I still tell stories about it. At one point the woman sitting next to me, beautiful dress and a string of pearls, was crammed on the floor and so breathless with laughter that she started saying, "I'm going to pee! I'm going to pee!"

In the earlier previews, there was the most naive and stunning exchange between the policeman and Bernadette as he tromped around the grotto:

Policeman: Where is this lady? I don't see her!
Bernadette: Please, monsieur! You're standing on the Holy Mother's bush!"

I've never heard a shriek of laughter like that from an audience ever. EVER.

Sort of like the SPIDERMAN of its time.

Scan the programme!

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