It must have been 1963, because the musical of Dombey & Son was running at the Alexandra, and it must have been the autumn, because it was surely some time in October that a performance was seriously delayed because two of the cast had slipped and hurt themselves in B dressing-room corridor, and the reason for that was that the floor appeared to be flooded with something sticky and glutinous.
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At Freddie's
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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A novel centering on Freddie, the proprietress of the Temple Stage School, and her schemes, pupils and theatrical ambitions for the national institution which supplies the West End theatres with juveniles for everything from Shakespeare to pantomime.
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Fitzgerald writes a story about the formidable proprietress of "Freddie's, " the Temple Stage School, which provides child actors for London's West End theaters, a promising child actor and his rival, and a man with wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency.
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