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The Infinity team bring you news on your favourite TV shows and movie franchises, including the return of Please Sir!’s Frankie Abbott and Superman at the Royal Albert Hall!
SATURDAY AND SWEET F.A.
Our pals Stuart and Jen Morriss of the Misty Moon Film Society have been very busy of late on all manner of new projects, and it’s always a pleasure to join them at their events. In fact I enjoyed a fabulous day out recently when I attended their Saturday afternoon audio recording of two great Misty Moon comedy shows at London’s Phoenix Arts Club. Remember Frankie Abbott from Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang? Played by David Barry, he was F.A. the gum-chewing mother’s boy who talked tough and said he was a magnet for ‘tarts,’ though he basically lived in a world of fantasy. David Barry is also an accomplished comedy writer who scripted such popular TV shows as Keep it in the Family back in the day. Now he’s brought back his most famous character in a hilarious but also strangely poignant fashion in Misty Moon’s Production of The Lives of Frankie Abbott.
INFINITY Ed Allan Bryce with The Bill’s Tony Stamp, aka Graham Cole OBE
Audience members at The Phoenix Arts Club for the event
Judy Matheson, Graham Cole OBE, David Barry, Larry Dann and Felicity Dean
Along with David, Stuart and Jen have laboured hard for six years putting together the first of two half-hour shows in which Frankie, now 78 years of age and living in a care home, has pretty much regressed to his childhood persona. With Stuart directing, a talented cast of five lined up at the microphones on stage in this cosy venue for the first episode, which they performed flawlessly. Judy Matheson and Graham Cole OBE (Tony Stamp from The Bill) were Frankie’s geriatric housemates, hilariously unimpressed by his tall tales of being in The Professionals and terrorising the Kray Twins. Felicity Dean was obviously having fun as Frankie’s carer Marion, trying to dig down to the rare elements of truth in his fantasy tales, and Suzanne Maddock was a bubbly presence as a junior care worker.