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I was looking for that video earlier!
I guess it was taken down and put back up because before it was named
"P*ssy Montage"

Please welcome to the stage the fabulous talents of...
Miss P*ssy Montage!

I saw the Australian version. It had Mr Humphries travelling to Australia working at the local equivalent of Grace Brothers (they couldn't use the Grace Brothers name as in Sydney there was a Grace Bros Department Store).

Everything was pretty much the same as the original, the set, the characters, though they had different surnames. I think only one of the actors might be familiar (to older posters here). The Mrs Slocombe type role was played by Australian soprano June Bronhill. June Bronhill worked a lot in operetta and musicals in London in the 1950's and 1960's (The Merry Widow, Robert and Elizabeth and was Mother Abbess in the Petula Clark Sound of Music in the 1980's). I'm not sure but I think that Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock) may also have appeared in this. At the time of filming John Inman was touring Australia in the play Pajama Tops.

I saw Molie Sugden in a play here (Australia), it was a murder/mystery comedy called Find The Lady. I've never seen anyone work so hard onstage (crawling around, running up and downstairs) to get a laugh. This was about 25 years ago...and she wasn't young then!

Its really hard to believe, with the exception of Granger and Mr Grace of course, that John Inman was the first one to pass away. He was the youngest of Thornton and Sungden. They didnt say but I wonder if it was AIDS related? It was supposedly something else in the press...him and Roddy McDowall maybe?

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No it wasn't AIDS related. He (Inman) was a much in demand panto Dame in later years. There are a few images about on google I believe. Yes, June Bronhill got the laughs (as Mrs Slocombe). It appears, the stage version, from time to time in community theatres here in Australia.

I believe that's correct, Husk.