Taking its cue from the success of
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a
British comic strip got in on the game of trying a musical spin-off; the unlikely
team of Alan Price from The Animals (music and lyrics) and Trevor Peacock from
The Vicar of Dibley (book and lyrics) came up with
Andy Capp The
Musical in 1982. It did make it to the West End but presumably not for long, as
it becomes the latest "forgotten" British musical to get a revival as the
Finborough's alternate show. Roger Alborough plays Reg Smythe's famous creation Andy
Capp, the permanently unemployed layabout who still seems to find the money to get
drunk every night. Andy's wife Flo (Lynn Robertson Hay) is the one with a job, but
she still has to beg him for money if she wants to go to bingo, or to buy something
special - like a new dress for a wedding.
