GLORIOUS! by Peter Quilter Directed by John Eastwood

Glorious!, is an effervescent light comedy based loosely upon the later life of the woman who had become known and achieved great notoriety as, ‘’the worst singer in the world’’.

In 1940’s New York City, the name of the performer who was on
the ‘’must see’’ list of many of the City’s glittaera was Madam Florence Foster Jenkins, an elderly and obsessional singer whose pitch, timing and interpretation left much to be desired.

Known also as ‘’the first lady of the sliding scale’’, she would confidently warble and screech her way through many arias and songs at High Society evenings, where a goodly proportion of her audience were unable to contain themselves and remained double up with histrionic laughter.

She paid no attenion to criticism and went on, with the full support of a close coterie of friends, to hire and fill to its 3000+ capacity, the Carnegie Hall, in what were sadly to be the last few months of her life.