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Chorus Girls was a musical written in 1981 by The Kinks
The Kinks

The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
 lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
, who collaborated with The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday is a Cinema of the United Kingdom gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 in film but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film....
 screenwriter Barrie Keefe.

It opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford, London in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 starring Marc Sinden
Marc Sinden

Marc Sinden is an England theatre producer, artistic director and actor, whose career has spanned theatre, film, Audio theatre and television. He is also the son of noted actor Sir Donald Sinden and is widely reported in the international press to be the boyfriend of Heather Mills....
 and also had a supporting cast of Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick was an England actor.Elphick was known primarily in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as private investigator Boon in the hit ITV series and subsequent role in BBC's EastEnders....
, Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson is an England television actor....
, Kate Williams
Kate Williams

Kate Williams is an England actress from London who trained at London's East 15 Acting School.She remains best known for two television roles: Joan Booth in the 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour and Audrey Withey in the crime drama Widows ....
 and Charlotte Cornwell
Charlotte Cornwell

Charlotte Cornwell is an actress and the half-sister of spy novelist John le Carr? . She describes him as "the best brother a girl could have"....
. Directed by Adrian Shergold, the choreography
Choreography

Choreography , is the art of making structures in which movement occurs. The term dance composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures....
 was by Charles Augins
Charles Augins

Charles Augins is an English award-winning actor, dancer and choreographer for stage and screen....
 and Jim Rodford
Jim Rodford

Jim Rodford is a musician who played with The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans and was a founding member of Argent .In the late 1950s, and early 1960s he was a member of The Bluetones, the biggest band in St Albans at the time....
 of the Kinks played bass with the theatres 'house band'.

The plot was set around the story that Prince Charles (played by Sinden) was kidnapped by activists wanting to save the theatre building from demolition.






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Chorus Girls was a musical written in 1981 by The Kinks
The Kinks

The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
 lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies
Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
, who collaborated with The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday is a Cinema of the United Kingdom gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 in film but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film....
 screenwriter Barrie Keefe.

It opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford, London in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 starring Marc Sinden
Marc Sinden

Marc Sinden is an England theatre producer, artistic director and actor, whose career has spanned theatre, film, Audio theatre and television. He is also the son of noted actor Sir Donald Sinden and is widely reported in the international press to be the boyfriend of Heather Mills....
 and also had a supporting cast of Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick was an England actor.Elphick was known primarily in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as private investigator Boon in the hit ITV series and subsequent role in BBC's EastEnders....
, Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson is an England television actor....
, Kate Williams
Kate Williams

Kate Williams is an England actress from London who trained at London's East 15 Acting School.She remains best known for two television roles: Joan Booth in the 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour and Audrey Withey in the crime drama Widows ....
 and Charlotte Cornwell
Charlotte Cornwell

Charlotte Cornwell is an actress and the half-sister of spy novelist John le Carr? . She describes him as "the best brother a girl could have"....
. Directed by Adrian Shergold, the choreography
Choreography

Choreography , is the art of making structures in which movement occurs. The term dance composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures....
 was by Charles Augins
Charles Augins

Charles Augins is an English award-winning actor, dancer and choreographer for stage and screen....
 and Jim Rodford
Jim Rodford

Jim Rodford is a musician who played with The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans and was a founding member of Argent .In the late 1950s, and early 1960s he was a member of The Bluetones, the biggest band in St Albans at the time....
 of the Kinks played bass with the theatres 'house band'.

The plot was set around the story that Prince Charles (played by Sinden) was kidnapped by activists wanting to save the theatre building from demolition. Dobson played the girl who falls in love with him and Elphick played Sinden's bodyguard.

According to a contemporary interview, Sinden only accepted the role on the condition that he did not have to sing a solo, however Davies wrote the reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
-style song "Everybody's Slagging Off England" specifically for him and gave it to him with two days to go before the First Night. Sinden did sing it and later recorded it with Davies.