Cast

Synopsis

This bright and funny start to our new season tells of the trials and tribulations of a tap-dancing class – not a West End “Chorus Line” ” but a class filled with ordinary people of ordinary shapes and sizes and with ordinary stories to tell. Will they find happiness? Will they manage to tap in step? Will you be able to stop laughing? The “Comedy of the Year” for 1984.

Directors Notes

There are never enough parts for women. And complicated setting is difficult to achieve convincingly. And the first play of the season is a most important choice.

Enter Richard Harris with ‘Stepping Out. Nine rewarding parts for women. One for a man whose additional reward is to play with all these women. One set; comedy and pathos, frivolity and truth neatly mixed. Good, let’s do it. There’s just one thing. What’s that? They all have to learn to dance. Dance?

As one who has danced on the public stage – my Jub-Jub Bird of 1949 is still spoken of where matters terpsichorean and choreographic are discussed – I know the problems and the difficulties. With a cast and choreographer less talented and dedicated than that now assembled I dare not have embarked on this production.