Salad Days

How it feels

A live television broadcast of a touring stage musical. It features a young woman in the lead role and was the first professional musical to be shown live on Australian TV.

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What happens

Salad Days was a 45-minute Australian telecast of the play Salad Days, which toured there starring Judy Banks in 1958. Directed by Arthur Wyndham, it aired from the Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, on ABN-2 on 16 April, the first live musical televised in the country from the professional stage. The previous year the Australian Broadcasting Corporation had broadcast a TV revue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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