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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waiting in the Wings is a play by Noel Coward. Set in a retirement home for actresses, it focuses on a feud between residents Lotta Bainbridge and May Davenport, who once both loved the same man.Waiting in the Wings was Coward's fiftieth play.It premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960. It was directed by Margaret Webster and starred Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Marie Lohr and Graham Payn.Binkie Beaumont, who usually presented Coward's plays in London, turned it down as old fashioned . Michael Redgrave put together a starry cast led by...an amazing gathering of old actresses, many of whom had been stars when Noel was just starting out . Coward later wrote that in the pre-London tour to Dublin, Liverpool and Manchester the play was received with heart-warming enthusiasm by both the public and the critics .

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