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Minnie the magic piano
Portable small piano from the UK stage musical Salad Days, book and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. This lightweight bit of fluff was commissioned to finish out a season and scheduled to run just three weeks. It ended up running for five and a half years, becoming the then longest-running musical in the history of the British theatre.
The plot, such as it is, finds young, newly-graduated couple Jane and Timothy bemoaning their future. They swear to take the next job that comes their way, no matter what it is. An unnamed tramp/street performer offers them £7 a week to watch Minnie for a month. They take it and a week later are dead of starvation. No just kidding, they die of exposure. No, still kidding, this is a musical, and the magic piano has the ability to give anyone an irresistible urge to dance! This naturally results in shenanigans. Wackiness possibly ensues also. The fun-hating Minister of Pleasure and Pastime comes after them, and they somehow lose the piano.
They get help searching from Timothy's Uncle Zed, a scientist who conveniently descends in his flying saucer and wait, what the f...? Seriously? Jebus.
Anyway, after they find the piano, the mysterious Tramp turns up and tells them to bugger off, it's some next couple's turn with the piano.
