BABY was featured today on the Blog of Musical Theare @ George Square's Chris Grady. Read his post below

Wow - I've just been in George 2 to have a look at the tech/get-in for Maltby and Shire's BABY and it takes me back to a very special time - the very first Festival of Musical in Buxton in 1992 which grew out of my meetings with Roger Haines who directed the European Premiere of BABY with Caroline O'Connor, Nigel Richards, Tim Flavin, Susie Blake, Dilys Watling.

On the left is the original poster, on the right the current Cambridge University cast. Maybe these young performers will become the stars of the future. Check them out.

Anyone who has ever seen or sung the revue show CLOSER THAN EVER will know many of the songs from this very special show. What they may not know is that Richard Maltby has been working closely with the guys from Cambridge University to create a new version of the priginal Broadway musical which plays tightly at 75 minutes. It will be great to see and may give a new life to this show which, like so many new musicals presented in the 80's and 90's which tried to say something, it was underappreciated and never transferred. Alan Hulme of the Manchester Evening News wrote "Oh boy, oh Baby, what a delivery. This ante-natal knees up is the happiest event of the season; an adult, literate, bouncing bundle of joy. It's a zany, oddball musical from mid-eighties' Broadway that looks aT...very different couples on a college campus somewhere in small-town America."

I really wish this company well - they have the best poster I have seen anywhere, and what was even better was seeing how they handled their limited tech time. Whilst the cast were putting the set up, the band were playing the score, and the cast were doing a sing through - all at once. Now that's good use of time.