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Article: Ex-choirboy on song with hit comedy; Playwright Kevin Elyot tells Terry Grimley about his musical youth in Birmingham and his more recent career in theatre, film and television.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2002
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Byline: Terry Grimley
Kevin Elyot is best known as the writer of the hit comedy My Night with Reg, but his CV also includes an unexpected musical distinction.
When I happen to mention that I have recently heard the CBSO's 40th anniversary performance of Britten's War Requiem in Coventry Cathedral, he says: 'I took part in the third performance of that, in Birmingham Town Hall.
'Meredith Davies conducted it and they got some boys from King Edward's to sing in it. It has a sort of special meaning for me because of that. I was in the Cathedral choir, ...