Stepping Out

Shrewsbury Musical Theatre Company presents...

Richard Harris's award-winning comedy is about a group of seven women and one man who attend a weekly tap-dancing class in a dingy north London church hall.

Over the course of several months we get to know this disparate group as they chatter about their work, home and sex lives. As the charity gala looms, tensions rise in the group as the routines become more complicated, while some find their feet, others struggle. Their back stories are revealed as they hang about the hall after class – and, it turns out, everyone has “a thing” – whether loneliness, an inattentive husband, money problems or worries about their child's future.

Having successfully run for three years from 1984 in the West End, Stepping Out went to Broadway and subsequently became a film starring Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters.

Stepping Out is a frothy confection with a heartwarming ending and good fun, hopefully for the cast, definitely for the audience!