Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds (By arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph)
Presenting Tessie O'Shea, Kenny Cantor, Leslie Sarony, Wally Boag, The Ruwills, Brian Andro, The Trio Charly Ross
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
There has never been anyone quite like Tessie O'Shea, who makes her first appearance in The Good Old Days. She is a natural for this show and captures the flavour of the period with a skilfully devised medley of songs.
Now in her fifties, Tessie O'Shea no longer moves the scales to seventeen stone three pounds, and has even jokingly referred to herself as Twiggy O'Shea.
She is on a strict diet, but has to make sure she does not lose too much weight or her image would be damaged.
Tessie has come a long way since she first appeared at the Bristol Hippodrome at the age of ten. Today she divides her time between Britain and America.
On Broadway in 1963 she stopped the show with her performance in Noel Coward's "The Girl Who Came to Dinner."
One critic wrote: "She lifts the roof off Broadway." The show won her several awards for the most outstanding performance in musicals on the Broadway stage.
Tessie's talent takes another form. In New Orleans a couple of years ago she played the Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet." The Times said she was excellent in the part and continued: "It was a bustling, motherly performance overflowing with humanity, and not unexpectedly Miss O'Shea handled the bawdy with vigour and enthusiasm."