Betty Blue Eyes

Thank you for inviting me to your production of Betty Blue Eyes. What a relief for you all to be finally bringing it to the stage after the Covid pandemic and Storm Eunice delays and then a cancellation due to sickness in the cast last week. Set in 1947 in the northern town of Shepardsford, Yorkshire, this musical based on the film, A Private Function and revolves around the black-market meat trade, featuring the antics of a few of the town’s men and a pig being illicitly reared for a council banquet.

There were some very strong performances from the principals who had developed their characters well. The story is told throughout by the leads and an array of minor principal characters and the cast in the main part showed their individual characters to communicate the story. The MD had clearly worked hard with the principals to give great vocal performances and also with the trio of girls who sang with brilliant close harmony!  There was some strong choral singing from the women’s ensemble with some good harmony singing and I have no doubt that working with Lara had given them all confidence to sing. 

I understand that this is to be the director’s last big production after many years in the director’s chair and I have no doubt that Shinfield Players are very grateful to her for all her hard work over the years and I am sure she will still be seen at the theatre for many years to come.

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