What A Super Way To Spend Washday

On a wet Bank Holiday Monday, where most of the activities planned are outside ones, there are few things left to do so I decided to put my programmes of musicals in alphabetical order.

In the ‘K’ category I came across one given to me by an old friend, who was a member of Hessle Theatre Company from the 1960’s. The King’s Rhapsody was an Ivor Novello musical that the company did in 1967. For the moment I won’t delve into the contents of the programme, although it does give us a glimpse of the lost world of amateur musical productions of the 1960’s. (However, if this bad weather continues I may be forced into listing the entire cast list.) Instead I will draw your attention to the back cover of the programme where the advert extols the pleasures of busy women spending a half-hour sitting and relaxing in the comfortable surroundings of a coin-op launderette.

Even in 1967 Hessle Theatre Company was at the forefront of showing women how to have a good time.