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Kisses on a Postcard - the full 4​-​hour monty

by Terence Frisby, Gordon Clyde, Dominic Frisby, Martin Wheatley

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meadmom My words are too puny to convey how incredible this production is. The story, music, actors and singers drew my heart. Dominic, thank you for bringing this story to life. Your father lives on through it. I will stop here before I get any more soppy; kudos to you, your dad, and everyone who worked on this project.
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In an illustrious career which included the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End, a hit film with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn, one of ITV’s most successful sitcoms of the 1970s, another of ITV’s most successful sitcoms of the 1980s, awards and fortunes, made and lost, my father, Terence Frisby regarded Kisses on a Postcard as the best thing he ever wrote. I couldn’t agree more. It has everything. Kisses began in 1988 as a radio play, Just Remember Two Things: It’s Not Fair And Don’t Be Late, a series of reminiscences about Dad’s experiences as an evacuee during World War Two. BBC Radio broadcast the play ten times, creating some sort of record, and it received the biggest audience response that anyone in the BBC Radio Drama department could remember. It won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play and was mentioned critically in the same breath as Under Milk Wood and Cider With Rosie. It was then optioned to be a film, where it got stuck in development hell for fifteen years, and the film was never made. Dad’s close friend Jeremy James Taylor, founder of the National Youth Musical Theatre, meanwhile, had been nagging him to turn it into a stage musical and a chance encounter on a golf course in 2002 was the catalyst. I’ve had the theatre shoved down my throat since an early age, but against all expectation this tiny community theatre project at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple, North Devon, with mostly amateur performers, and a little known Welsh actor by the name of Derek Crewe in the main role, was the best thing I ever saw in the theatre. I remember saying to Dad at the time, even if nothing more ever happens with this, you can go to your grave knowing that no one else has ever done that to a room. We tried for many years to raise the three million pounds we needed to bring it to the West End, but then ran into the global financial crisis. I remember giving a presentation one evening in Mayfair at a billionaire’s club. There were more than 20 billionaires in the room. It was 6th of October 2008, the day the Icelandic banks went down. It was hard to secure their interest. Then in 2010 Bloomsbury, commissioned a book, which, as is the case with everyone who runs into this story, was loved by all who read it. In 2013 there was another production in Barnstaple, but again the West End producers didn’t come. The book, published by Bloomsbury My father died in April, 2020. Kisses on a Postcard is too special to remain just a script and a CD on a shelf. I did not have the means to turn it into a film or a stage show, but I did have the means to turn it into an audiobook and that is what I have done. Dad would have been more ruthless with the script than I have and kept it to two hours. I have let it run much longer. With good reason. This story will disarm you in the most unexpected ways. You will find yourself laughing and weeping at just what wonderful things the kindest of human beings can be. I hope you enjoy it. And if you do, please tell your friends. Thank you.
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It is 1940. Two boys from London, Terry and Jack, aged seven and eleven, are being evacuated from their families to escape German bombing. They end up in Cornwall, where they spend the next four years.

The intensely moving musical tells their story.

Full of surprising humour and memorable songs, this is unique portrait of an extraordinary time in British history.

"Enchanting, profoundly moving and delightful," Charles Spencer, the Telegraph.

Running time: roughly four hours. This is the full version.

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released May 26, 2022

Written by Terence Frisby.
Adapted, directed and produced by Dominic Frisby.
Music by Martin Wheatley, Gordon Clyde and others.
Lyrics by Dominic Frisby, Gordon Clyde and others.
Arranged and conducted by Martin Wheatley, except for Got Any Gum, Chum? and GI Bride, which were conducted by Lola Frisby Williams.
Childrens’ casting and co-direction by Jeremy James Taylor.

Terry … Brandon McGuiness
Jack … Frankie Joel-Celoni
Auntie Rose … Katy Secombe
Uncle Jack … John Owen-Jones
Mum … played by Rosie Cavaliero and sung by Louise Cookman
Gwyn … Ian Virgo
Elsie … Evelyn Hoskins
Reverend Buckroyd … James Clyde
Mr Yarnscombe … Peter Temple
Grannie Peters … Marcia Warren
Miss Polmanor … Rosie Cavaliero

With a special mention for Daisy Mortimer, who sang on just about every song, as well as the solos in Skin and Bone and England’s Bells

Other cast members and singers include, in alphabetical order:

Sherry Baines
Henrietta Bess
Louise Cookman
Lynsday Danvers
Rupert Degas as Churchill and Lord HawHaw
Ginny Fiol
Valerie Gogan
Paul Jones
Jonathan Kydd
Helen Langford
Trevor Lock who played Mr Davenport
Aideen McQueen
Cathy Murphy
Matt Price who played Dick Blodgett and Farmer Bodrane
Simon Thomas who sang the solo in Come All Ye Jolly Tinnerboys
Danny Ward
Mary Woodvine
American GIs … Lance Ellington, Cordell Mosteller, Micah Touchet and Dennis Caldwell.

The kids:
Safin Sheikh who sang the solo in There’s A War On and the descant in Ye Holy Angels Bright
Alex Braglevicz as Frank Emmet
Harlyn Price-Lewis as Sam Finch

And:
Izabella Bucknell
Lola Byrne
Lola Frisby Williams
Ferdie Frisby Williams
Rudyard Haggist
Arthur Hastings
Molly Hedges
Poppy Jestico
Henry Littell
Edward Planche
Sofia Rega
Leo Ruiz
Astrid Sharrock
Sacha Whitehead
Peggy-May Will
And, in the role of Teddy Willis, Albie Ahmed

The sound engineers were Ross Burman, Wayne McIntyre, Ru Lemer, Malcolm Thorpe, Dan Hayden, Lewis Blair and Freddie Light.

The Cornish script adviser was Natalie Whiteight

The musicians were:
Clarinets … Lola Frisby Williams and Mark Alloway
Piano … Colin Good
Bass … Paul Moylan
Violins … Kit Massey, Darius Thompson and Ruth Elder Cello … Natalie Rozario
Viola … Una Palliser
Percussion … Nicholas Ball
Trumpets … Alan Berlyn and Lewis Taylor
Trombone … Andy Flaxman S
axes … Kyle Horch and Michael McQuaid

With special thanks to David Grant and Glenthorne High School, Andy Demetriou of Red Creative Media, Patch McQuaid of ID Audio, Simon Page aka Goat, Anne-Marie Horton and the NYMT, Trevor Horwood, John Maher, Eliza Frisby, Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt, Gareth Price-Lewis of Chatterbox, Ross MacDonald and Keith Neumeyer.

Kisses on a Postcard was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Craxton Hall, ID Audio, Temple Music Studios and Dominic’s house in 2021.

All rights are reserved. Please contact Dominic Frisby for more information.

And, if you liked it, please tell your friends!

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Kisses on a Postcard London, UK

This “profoundly moving” (Charles Spencer, Telegraph) musical tells the unforgettable story of two boys, Terry, aged seven, and Jack, eleven, as they are evacuated from their family from London to Cornwall in 1940 to escape the Blitz.

Full of memorable songs and surprising humour, this is a unique portrait of an extraordinary episode in British history.
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