Stage Door Podcast

In this special episode of the Stage Door podcast the spotlight falls on 'Someone Like You', the 1989 / 1990 British musical.'Someone Like You' is a musical with lyrics by Dee Shipman, music by Petula Clark and a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon.Based on a concept developed by Clark over a period of several years, it is set in West Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. Originally entitled 'Amen', it was conceived as a dark view of the difficulties Southerners faced dealing with carpetbaggers during the Reconstruction period, and also dealt with the problems of morphine-addicted Confederate soldiers returning home. It lost many of its serious overtones as the project evolved; Clark and Shipman's original book was revised substantially by Weldon, who also contributed the new title.Directed by Midgley, the musical premiered on October 25, 1989 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in Cambridge, and in his review in the Cambridge Evening News, Alan Kersey wrote, "Petula Clark proved last night at the w