Play by Ronald Gow , with lyrics by James Dyrenforth , and music by Michael North. Produced by Ronald Waldman and Carleton Hobbs , Horace Percival , Dick Francis and Clifford Bean. Revue Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum. vNote : As the characters in this story-speak in various languages, it must be left to the listener to detect which language is being spoken at any given time.
This musical comedy may seem something of a departure for Ronald Gow , author of that redoubtable play, Gallows Glorious. Nevertheless, The Prince on the Flying Trapeze is just as rich irr the genial and the jocose as was Gallows Glorious in the spirit of fighting-America and John Brown.
The Prince on the Flying Trapeze loses nothing by its use of a setting long beloved, but never made stale, by the writers of musical comedy. In fact, here is Ruritania again (in this case, Schnitzel) complete with fabulous princes, succulent waltzes, courtiers, commoners, and all the jovial stock-in-trade of a happier Central Europe. There is, however, a difference, and a very marked one-the heroine is a Lancashire trapeze artist, who causes no ordinary flutter in the swaggering, soignee set-up of the Schnitzel court.