Onstage with Natalie Anglesey

Calendar Girls The Musical at The Lowry Review by Natalie Anglesey Think you've seen Calendar Girls The Musical? Well if you were at The Lowry tonight 30th October you would have seen the newly revisited version about which, I admit, I had initial misgivings. However at the interval producer David Pugh told me that he was responsible for  persuading the joint creators to make some changes- and he was right! You may already have read the best-selling book by Tim Firth, based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who bared all for a nude calendar to raise awareness for cancer, because one of their husbands died of the disease, and also to raise enough money for a hospital couch. It led them to be known forever as The Calendar Girls. and those original brave women were there in force tonight and walked on stage after the curtain call to accept well-deserved applause.  T he book and the award-winning movie, starring Helen Mirren, brought them global recognition an