... R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS 'SALAD DAYS' AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S Opened April 14 SALAD DAYS is here again, at the Duke of York's, as fresh, bright, tuneful and prettily simple as it was in 1954, when, coming up from Bristol, it became a hit for six years in ...

... adaptation by Lionel Harris of a 202-year-old comic opera now set to a rather insip, immature Julian Slade score from his pre-Salad Days. So it is really a revival of a revival, dating from either a quarter-century or two centuries ago, whichever way you ...

... skating dances were added, with bad ballet (in the sense of being carelessly hippy and flexible) tossed in like a too vinegary salad dressing, and often there were imitations of ice dance in supported swings and twirls. In Torture arched torsos suggested ...

... (Marianne James) is the opera diva with a dif ference. Her sizeable presence of flowery dresses that look like ram pant fruit salads gone wrong is unmistakable as she drives the audience into a crazed frenzy that would make fat Pav himself jealous. The walking ...

... while Maggie Beckit is outra geously over the top as a black face Prissy. Songs chop bits from a range of musicals, from Salad Days to Follies, and the cast even sell raffle tickets to fund their charitable forays to old folks' homes. This is com-edy ...

... interfered with ensured that his shows were the real stars. Since the moment he fell in love with musicals at a matinee of Salad Days when he was eight years old, Mackintosh's powers of persuasion must have come in handy. A man who can get Julie Andrews ...

... some times in spite of, sometimes even because of, their silly themes and even sillier rhymes. Life may not be exactly like a salad bar (you only get one visit, you see) but for the hour and a half Fellows is on stage it is, and you enjoy the company of what ...