From the touring circuit of show business embracing plays musicals concerts through to benefits and Galas Barrie follows up his first successful autobiography "A Tickets To The Carnival" with "Life Upon The Wicked Stage".
Having reached the ripe old age of eighty years he can look back on many an escapade seduction romp and flirtation. What he relates is a mammoth picture from chorus girls with no talent and certainly no knickers to drama students who dazzle with their artistry and learn as they go along the bizarre rules of life upon the very wicked stage.
Laughs and comedy in plenty Barrie paints a vivd picture of like from the 1940's through to the present day with many spicy tales of the virgin the seductress or the bold producer. Barrie also illuminates the changing scene of the world of greasepaint and advises how to keep on the great white way and not to fall into the valley of no return.
A saucy fairy tale for light afternoon reading.
