Spend, Spend, Spend

T1303191576
Scraping by on seven quid a week with her husband and three kids in a tiny terraced house in Castleford, Yorkshire, Viv Nicholson's life was as near rock bottom as it could get. Until that day in 1961 when Viv borrowed £5 from her Mam to play the Pools and she was catapulted from obscurity to fame with the biggest win ever - £152,319 (£5 million today). And that was it, Viv and Keith's lives changed overnight and Viv declared to the world she was going to spend, spend, spend. 'Booze, big cars, big spending, big headlines' and a succession of husbands soon led to bankruptcy. From rags to riches and back to rags again, a gritty and poignant musical about the extraordinary story of a brash and naïve, northern lass

Music	Steve Brown
Book by	Steve Brown
Lyrics	Steve Brown
Book by	Justin Green
Lyrics	Justin Green (from the book by Viv Nicholson and Stephen Smith)

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Archive :: production:T1303191576, musical:S1707, venue:V895

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Production details

Winner of The Evening Standard/Carlton Television Best Musical of the Year, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, 1999.Winner of Best Musical, Critics' Circle Awards 2000. Website