Barbara Dickson - Spend, Spend, Spend (Original London Cast) (2016)

Spend Spend Spend is a musical with a book and lyrics by Steve Brown and Justin Greene and music by Brown. In 1961, Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson won £152,319 in the football pools. When a reporter asked her what she planned to do with her new fortune, she replied, "I'm going to spend, spend, spend!," which is exactly what she did. Her rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story takes her through five husbands, expensive sports cars, fur coats, and jewelry, a battle with alcohol, and bankruptcy as, unable to cope with her new-found wealth and fame, she rapidly spirals downward. Spend Spend Spend premiered in 1998 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and won the Barclays Theatre Award for Best Musical of the Year. After a week of previews, the West End production, directed by Jeremy Sams and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, opened on October 12, 1999 at the Piccadilly Theatre, where it ran until August 5, 2000. The original cast included Barbara Dickson, Steven Houghton, and Rachel Leskovac.

Produced by : Steve Brown
Musical Director/Conductor : Dane Preece
Recording/Mixing Engineer : Gary Thomas
Dane Preece - Keyboard 1
Dominic Barlow - Keboard 2
Peter Moore - Bass/Bass Guitar
Ann Lines - Cello
Sue Phipps - Flute/Clarinet/Sax
Steve Stewart - Trumpet/Flugel Horn/Cornet
Bob Price - Trombone/Euphonium
Martin Layzell - Percussion
Ian Wood - Trumpet
Jon Hassan - French Horn

Cast: Barbara Dickson, Rachel Leskovac, Steven Houghton, Jeff Shankley, Lorraine Chappell, Susan Fay, Jane Fowler, Marjorie Keys, Craig Nicholls, Stuart Nurse, Stuart Pendred, Robin Samson, Nicola Sloane, Duncan Smith, Jamie Somers, Mary Stockley, Paul Thornley

Recorded at Angel Recording Studios, London (29 February, 1 & 2 March, 2000)