There were some less-than-glowing reviews when Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre last year; their complaint? Not enough substance yet too much girl power, it would seem. But when a well-loved cast including Patricia Hodge, Sian Phillips and Oxo mum Lynda Bellingham packed up their dressing gowns and went on tour, British audiences just loved its out and out feel-good factor and what, pray tell, is wrong with that? Tim Firth's play is the overly-sentimental, cosy, endearing tale of the real-life calendar girls, a Yorkshire Women's Institute who got their kit off to pose for a charity calendar after one of their husbands died of cancer, now arriving at the Noel Coward Theatre for its West End run. Just as in the film, it's about shedding a tear for the heart-warming female solidarity but there's an extra layer of middle class naughtiness here with the plucky actresses stripping off - behind strategically placed props - live on stage.
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There were some less-than-glowing reviews when Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre last year; their complaint? Not enough substance yet too much girl power, it would seem. But when a well-loved cast including Patricia Hodge, Sian Phillips and Oxo mum Lynda Bellingham packed up their dressing gowns and went on tour, British audiences just loved its out and out feel-good factor and what, pray tell, is wrong with that? Tim Firth's play is the overly-sentimental, cosy, endearing tale of the real-life calendar girls, a Yorkshire Women's Institute who got their kit off to pose for a charity calendar after one of their husbands died of cancer, now arriving at the 
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