Intimate revue.
One of the Phillip Theatre company's most successful revues, A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down even found its title becoming an Australian popular culture expression. The production comprised thirty odd sketches located in two sets: one a cold, chintz-hung London bedsit and the other a bronze-decor, low-slung, international hotel room. The first act looked at Australians abroad, while the second half examined them at home.
The skits included Reg Livermore as a juvenile pop singer and a curly-headed folknik; Kevan Johnston as an abnormally normal teenager and as secret agent James Bond; Gloria Dawn as a theatre party organiser; and Ruth Cracknell as a duffle-coated jet traveller, an English duchess, a long-suffering mum, and a star-struck housewife. The finale to the evening's entertainment was a satire on the 'Mad Scene' from Lucia di Lammermoor.
1965: Phillip Theatre, Sydney, 18 September 1865 - 3 September 1966.
This entry has been sourced from on-going historical research into Australian-written music theatre being conducted by Dr Clay Djubal.
Details have also been derived in part from Peter Pinne's 2005 article 'It Didn't Always Have to Close on Saturday Night' (Part 3).