Legless Productions
LEGLESS
PRODUCTIONS
Plays and Events for A World Wide Stage
This musical biop tells the story of this blues/rock idol from her rebellious teenage
years through to her lonely and untimely death at the Landmark Hotel in Los
Angeles on the 5th. October 1970. Featuring 9 of her best known songs together
with a segment of different artists from the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 the story
is one of triumph, drama, self destruction and captures the essence, style, music,
colour and aspirations of the flower power days of 60`s California.
A stage production ideal for touring with a cast of 9 ( 4 women and 5 men )
providing great costumes and staging possibilities; truly memorable music; film
opportunities and a dramatic and touching storyline.
“Pearl” is currently available to interested production companies.
Talullah
Written and devised by Brian Langtry
“It`s A Girl Thing”
by Brian Langtry
Set initially in 1964 four young women meet in a Liverpool pub to celebrate a birthday.
They intend to round off the evening by going to the legendary Cavern Club which is
about to close its doors.
The foursome, from varied social backgrounds and cultures, are bonded in lifelong
friendship and share the excitement and anticipation of being about to embark upon
their adulthood. In Act 1 we learn about their dreams, foibles, characters and
aspirations. We also meet the strange and sinister `Suleman` a young man known to
them but not befriended by them.
Act 2 sees the foursome back in the pub once more some 10 years down the road.
Life has changed for all and deep seated, uncomfortable and in some cases traumatic
truths and events emerge. Each life has been touched by the unanticipated and
emotional scars are laid bare and, sometimes willingly and sometimes forcefully,
shared. They all have cause to wonder and consider. The play is about friendship,
falling out, making up, life growth and hurting.
Funny, Dramatic, Poignant, Captivating.
Living next Door to Alice
Written by Brian Langtry
A new all singing and dancing musical play with a stunning cast of singers, actors,
and dancers. A foot stomping, heart warming, toe tapping, side splitting kind of
show!
This is the true story of one Tommy Parietti, a sixteen year old raised by his doting
grandmother, who is plucked from the playground to teenage stardom only to see
his world implode as personal and professional stresses and circumstances
threaten to tear him apart.
This paves the way for a musical which is at times hilarious, at times poignant, at
times uplifting, adolescence, friendship, hilarity, optimism, despair and finally
happiness and fulfilment.
Add to this 23 unforgettable pop songs, creative choreography, a happy ending and
a finale guaranteed to have an audience on its feet singing and clapping to the
closing choruses of what cannot fail to have been a truly memorable and enjoyable
evening of entertainment.
Classic songs you`ll be humming all the way home!
Dance routines to make you want to boogie!
Lines you`ll still be laughing at tomorrow!
Moments that will capture your heart!
“Living next Door to Alice” is currently provisionally placed for production
but further enquiries are still welcomed.
Plays and Events for the World Wide Stage
Tallulah is a two-act play focusing upon the character and life of the infamous Southern
Belle who charmed London and Broadway theatre goers from the 1920`s through to her
virtual retirement in the 1950`s.
Outrageously craving of attention and defiant of all accepted expectations the openly
bisexual Tallulah found herself drawn to the intellectual bohemians of her era becoming a
devotee of both `The Algonquin Set` in New York and the `Bright Young Things` in
London. She was reveired by her coterie in London; ` Gallery Girls ` who took great
delight in defying every known theatre convention casting aside inhibitions and stamping,
cooing and wailing at their heroine`s every movement. A uniquely stylised actress Tallulah
would these days inevitably have become tagged with the mantle of `celebrity`.
The play provides a frank and sexually revealing insight into the character, relationships,
psyche and idiosyncrasies of this complex woman and the world and period which she
inhabited. Visually engaging costuming, sets and styling from 1928 to 1954.
The production runs for 1hour and 45 minutes.
Minimum cast of 2 men and 2 women- 9 characters doubling or expanded cast for
individual roles.
Use of filmic sequences and a simulated staging of ` The Big Show` Tallulah`s hit radio
show of the 1950`s which involves musical content.
Pearl
The Janis Joplin Story
Written by Brian Langtry and Len Holden