Summer in the City (Cast: 2 male/4 female)

(all ages are approximate playing ages)

Bobby:      Just arrived in London from Liverpool looking to make his name as a photographer in the sixties style of David Bailey. Cheeky scouser who name drops (“big mates with Ringo”) plays acoustic guitar, writes songs, has a Beatle haircut.
Playing Age (1965): 22/23

Sam:          American, ex US serviceman from Detroit who was stationed at the US Air Force base in High Wycombe. Did his three years and stayed in the UK, conveniently missing the Vietnam draft.  He’s the coffee bar waiter and wannabe pop manager. Playing Age: 23/24

Joanna:    Junior journalist on the London Evening Standard. Privileged upbringing raised in the home counties (Beaconsfield). University educated but dropped out after a year. Very bright and self-assured, Singer in a covers band.
Playing Age: 24/25

Cassie:     Black Londoner, lives in Brixton, she works in a boutique in Carnaby Street but has ambitions to be a fashion designer. Born in Jamaica but arrived, aged 4, in London with her mother in 1951. Her Dad arrived on the Windrush in 1948.
Playing Age: 19 (Act 1) /  21 (Act 2)

Vera:          Arrives from Leeds and ends up as one of the first female Traffic Wardens. Totally ‘lost in London’ she desperately wants to become a singer like her idols Dusty and Cilla. Starts the show looking frumpy and in uniform, but ends up a glamorous pop singer.
Playing Age: 22/23

Hetty:        A Jewish widow in her early forties who owns the ‘Four Eyes’ Coffee Bar. Vocalist with the big bands before and during WW2. Her husband didn’t make it back from the 1944 Italian campaign. She never remarried and is a mother figure to all her regulars.

Ensemble: There is the option for an ensemble to play ‘other customers’.-