The Dancing Years programme - Ivor Novello
It’s doubtful that Ivor Novello, or anyone else involved, knew that this production, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London would open on 23 March 1939, and close 187 performances later because Adolf Hitler decided to start World War II. It reopened in 1942, with over 1000 performances, until it closed at the end of World War II. Take that, you bally Huns. Anyway, here’s the programme, as one…












