Mad About The Boy Vol.3 - 1932-1943

A rare breed of thespian polymath, the multi-faceted Noël Coward was a kind of 20th century 'Renascence Man' of the theatre - variously playwright, singing-actor of stage and revue, film-actor, composer, writer, critic and general theatrical entrepreneur. Born Noël Peirce Coward in Teddington into a comfortable, middle-class family and raised in Surbiton, Surrey, he received no formal musical training, albeit several of his antecedents were practising musicians. From the first his inclination veered unerringly towards the theatre and, at Daly's and the Gaiety, he was nurtured on a diet of Edwardian musical comedy and the lighter drama classics until, in 1911, he made his own first stage appearance in The Goldfish, at the London Little Theatre.

Producer's Note

Just as Volume 2 of this series was being pressed, a note was received from San Francisco collector and broadcaster Alan Farley, offering Naxos the unissued 1932 recording of Mad About The Boy, which chronologically should have been included in that compilation. Better late than not at all, here it is, taken from one of the only known test pressings.