Synopsis
After the Ball
Published by Samuel French Inc
6 Male 6 Female
This concert version of the Noel Coward musical based on Oscar Wilde's classic play premiered at the Covent Garden Festival and the Chicago Humanities Festival to honour Noel Coward in his Centenary Year
The young Lady Windermere discovers that her husband has been seeing Mrs. Erlynne, a fascinating older woman, so she determines to run away with her admirer, Lord Darlington. Her honour is saved when Mrs. Erlynne intervenes and, in the process, compromises herself in the eyes of Victorian society
Lady Windermer never learns that her saviour is the mother she thought was dead. This period concert version restores Coward's original libretto, reinstates important cut songs and adds new linking material