Yes, so much muchness. My parents got the album when it came out. I was five years old, and they played it almost daily, it seemed. I learned the songs by heart.
I saw it three times and could have gone many times more. When Keith Michel makes his entrance via the audience in the stalls it just made me tingle-wonderful musical and wonderful Keith Michel 🤩
From a big June Bronhill fan: I now adore her artistry on a new level, lord she was pretty and petite and based on the closeups an excellent actress. THANK YOU!!
This song is a splendid example of how little needs to be done in terms of staging - when a song is this magnificent and the performers are this extraordinary.
We performed this at my school in the mid 1980's - some of my very best memories. I can still sing along to more or less everything, from "I Know Now' through to the 'Barretts of Wimpole Street' - thanks for posting this beautiful duet
I was born in Coxhoe County Durham near Coxhoe Hall in County Durham and as a child often went to play near the house where Elizabeth was born . many years later saw the show in London Magical musical never forgotten David Johnson Channel Islands
You know, my husband regularly recalls his first visit to London as a young man and acquiring a ticket for the Lyric Theatre saw Keith Michel and June Bronhill in Robert and Elizabeth. He always asks if it seems stupid for a chap then in his late teens to come out of a theatre with tears in his eyes which, apparently, is how it was for him. He listens to this track at least once every night and rates it highly. I can't help but agree with him and only regret I wasn't with him at that performance.
Olga Olga Like your husband I also saw Robert and Elizabeth at the Lyric and left the theatre in the same state as he did. I remember 'I Know Now' closed the first act just like 'Climb Every Mountain' does in 'The Sound of Music' and this has a similar effect on me. I returned the following year to see the show again, this time with Jane Fyffe as Elizabeth and it wasn't quite the same. Ian
Never thought to see this again, how wonderful!! Beautiful song and wonderfully sung by them both saw the original and had two friends who were in the cast. Patrick Fyffe - who was one of the brothers, who subsequently found huge fame as Dame Hilda Bracket and his sister Jane Fyffe, who succeeded June Bronhill in the national tour, and my friend Marilyn Dougan who played one of the sisters. In the national tour Sir Donald Wolfit succeeded John Clements as head of the Barrett household.
What wonderful connections to this. I've been listening to this since the album came out when I was five years old. My parents played it all the time, seeing parallels with their own romance-my late mother was a poet and my late father was her hero.
my 1st professional show in cape town south africa... she and neville jayson .. it was magical to be in the production brickhill burke ... glorious voices
I was wondering where this footage came from and if there is anything else like this from the show. (I expect not) A large part of the show was recorded and then transmitted on television in I think 1965. The family (including me playing Occi) sang The Girls that Boys Dream About on the Eamonne Andrews Show in 1965. Sadly video tapes were wiped and reused at that time.
Hi, Michael! Quite lovely to hear from you. I'm a massive fan of both June and 'Robert and Elizabeth' (I found your name in my copy of the programme I snatched up a couple years ago). This performance excerpt is from a 1971 Keith Michell BBC-TV special. He also recreated a song from 'Irma La Douce' with Elizabeth Seal. I'm aware of the 1965 TV excerpts and wish I could see them, myself! Shame the show never came to NY. She would have made such a sensation here.
