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BLACK SLAP AND SEQUINS Landor Theatre, Clapham North Black Slap and Sequins is set on election night 1964 in a dressing room at the Victoria Palace Theatre, where "The Black & White Minstrel Show" is still packing them in. More than a piece of showbiz nostalgia, the play is set against a background of great social change; politics, music, fashion and sexual attitudes will never be the same again. Meanwhile the young (and not so young) boys of the chorus dress up, drag up and - yes, black up! Meet two randy chorus boys, a feisty leather queen, a black dresser with attitude and thick specs, a tenor in the Salvation Army with a sensitive organ and a chorus mistress with a secret lover. A cast of six men and one woman reveal and conceal themselves against the musical backdrop of the Minstrels’ famous songs.
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