Expresso Bongo is a stage musical. Expresso Bongo. Bongo's success attracts a host of sleazy music industry types intent on exploiting him. James Kenney - "Bongo" Herbert Rudge Paul Scofield - Johnny Millicent Martin - Maisie King Meier Tzelniker - Mr. Mayer Charles Gray - Captain Cyril Mavors Elizabeth Ashley - Lady Rosemary Susan Hampshire - Cynthia Rosaline Haddon - Linda Laverick Plot. Johnny, a slimy, small-time music promoter and talent scout, notices teenage girls going crazy for the singing and bongo playing of talentless and seemingly idiotic Herbert Rudge. Label: Pye Nixa - NPL 18016 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album • Country: UK • Genre: Stage … All sets get chopped in half with the proscenium arch firmly in place separating the stage from the audience. With Johnny's help, Bongo rockets to stardom.
Découvrez les 2 disques en vente de l'album Expresso bongo de Stageshow sur CDandLP au format Vinyle et CD Expresso Bongo is a 1958 West End musical and a satire of the music industry. Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Directed by Val Guest. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
Directed by William Chappell.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1958 Vinyl release of Expresso Bongo (A Musical Play) on Discogs. Cast. All the movie's main scenes take place in confined spaces, with little sense of an outside world. It was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London, on 23 April 1958.Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, also the co-lyricist with Julian More.The production starred Paul Scofield with Hy Hazell, Millicent Martin and James Kenney. With Paul Scofield, James Kenney, Millicent Martin, Meier Tzelniker.
Johnny quickly finds himself outclassed in the sleaze department as Bongo turns out to be the slipperiest slime of them all. Johnny rechristens Rudge as "Bongo Herbert" and signs him to a contract that gives Johnny a 50% share of the profits. With Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard. Based on a stage play by Wolf Mankowitz, Expresso Bongo always feels artificial and theatrical.