Minimum Cast Size: 5m, 2f  Maximum Cast of 41

Bold names indicate a part with 20 lines or more, or a singing solo/duet, or both.

Actor 1 (1 role)

• Either one actor:
  Gracie Fields playing ages 22 to 58 (232 lines and 16 songs in Act One and Two)
• Or two actors:
  Young Gracie, playing ages 22 to 29 (121 lines and 8 songs in Act One)
  Older Gracie, playing ages 39 to 58 (111 lines and 8 songs in Act Two)

Actor 2 (7 roles, 81 lines)

• Mr Trimble - the actor/manager (21 lines, solo song)
• George Formby Jr (14 lines, one solo, one duet)
• Archie Pitt - a comedian, married to Gracie between 1923 and 1939 (17 lines, one solo)
• Henry Savage - a writer (15 lines)
• Tunnilclefft-Bagslops - a senior consultant (6 lines, one duet)
• Lord Castlerosse (5 lines)
• Val Parnell (3 lines)

Actor 3 (8 roles, 78 lines)

• Shirley - actor musician (4 lines)
• Jenny - Gracie’s mum (17 lines, one duet)
• Dolly - Gracie’s friend and colleague (52 lines, two duets)
• Ambrosine - Monsieur LeCoq’s daughter (non-speaking)
• A Nurse (2 lines)
• A Maid (non-speaking)
• Edith Piaf (non-speaking, one solo)
• Vivien Leigh (3 lines)

Actor 4 (3 roles, 41 lines)

• Morris – actor musician (1 line)
• Harry Parr-Davies - accompanist (37 lines, two solos, one duet, one trio)
• Liberace (3 lines)

Actor 5 (10 roles, 93 lines)

• Sid – actor musician (5 lines)
• A Stagedoor Keeper (2 lines)
• Ida - Jenny’s friend (5 lines)
• Mr Hollingworth - a gaffer (2 lines)
• Percy Snodgrass - a theatre producer (8 lines)
• Gerald Du Maurier - an actor manager (34 lines)
• Monsieur LeCoq - a concerned father (6 lines)
• Darryl Zanuck (19 lines)
• A Policeman - ‘Welsh’ (3 lines)
• Boris Alperovici - married to Gracie from 1952 until her death in 1979 (9 lines, one solo)

Actor 6 (5 roles, 57 lines)

• Charlie – actor musician (3 lines)
• Fred - Gracie’s dad (14 lines, one duet)
• Italian Customs Official (6 lines)
• Monty Banks - Italian film producer, married to Gracie from 1940 until his death in 1950
  (30 lines, one solo, two duets, one trio)
• Larry Olivier (4 lines)

Actor 7 (6 roles, 39 lines)

• Mick – actor musician (5 lines)
• A Drunk (2 lines)
• John Flanagan – an artist (14 lines)
• Mr Searle – a surgeon, from New Zealand (6 lines)
• Tom Tattle – a newspaperman (3 lines)
• Jimmy Wheeler (9 lines)

NOTES:

• In the original production the musical accompaniment was provided by actor musicians:
  Actor 3 (Shirley), Actor 4 (Morris), Actor 5 (Sid), Actor 6 (Charlie) and Actor 7 (Mick)
• Some announcers roles are played by members of the cast as appropriate.