Mountview Pageant 1987
VHS Colour Sound 12.07.1987 144:21
Summary: Semi-professional video of the Mountview Pageant 1987 just before the school's closure.
Title number: 2343
LSA ID: LSA/3077
Description: The Headmaster, Mr P. Pykett introduces the final musical show at Mountview High School in Harrow giving thanks to those who put the show together and welcomes to all those who have made an effort to attend. The show features pupils and teachers performing scenes from various musicals that the school have put on over the years including Lionel Bart's 'Oliver' with the songs 'Consider Yourself' and 'You Gotta Pick a Pocket of Two', 'Annie Get Your Gun' with 'I Can do anything', 'The Sound of Music' with 'Doe a Deer', 'My Fair Lady' with 'The Rain in Spain', along with extracts from 'Trial by Jury', 'Pirates of Penzance', 'Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat' and 'Fiddler on the Roof'. These performances are interweaved with comedy sketches including the repeated appearance of a double act of teachers taking off the comedian's Hale & Pace heavy characters 'The Management' aka 'The Two Rons' and a man impersonating Eaommon Andrews playing a 'This is Your Life' stunt. There is also some brief video footage of events recorded previously of the Panash Steel band playing 'In the Mood' by Glen Miller while in the school grounds. The show ends with all the performers singing, 'There's no Business like Show Business'.
Credits: Director: Andrew Hine
Keywords: Schools; Musical theatre
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Harrow
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I was the plaintiff in the Trial by Jury clip. I was the girls PE Teacher 1974-76.
It was great to see all those colleagues from many years ago
Am now retired and a grandmother of eight!
Happy Days.
Alison Dennis