Daily Dialogue — March 23, 2019

“Bombed last night and bombed the night before,
 Going to get bombed tonight if we never get bombed any more.
 When we’re bombed we’re scared as we can be.
 God strafe the bombing planes from High Germany.
 They’re over us, they’re over us,
 One shell hole for just the four of us.
 Thank your lucky stars there are no more of us,
 ‘Cos one of us could fill it all alone.”

— Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), screenplay by Charles Chilton, based on Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop Production and the members of the original cast after a stage treatment by Ted Allan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: World War I.

Trivia: Sir Richard Attenborough got the financial backing for the movie after singing and dancing though the score for Paramount Pictures’ boss Charles Bludhorn, who handed him a check for six million dollars, on the proviso he got six international stars for the movie. Attenborough did better, he got thirteen, most of which did it for the minimum daily rate.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A musical about war, death, and destruction. And yes, it works as a story.