Babs
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Released: 2017
Casts:
Rob Compton, Barbara Windsor, Alex MacQueen, Tom Forbes, Ross Green, Nicholas Asbury, Billy Burke, Daniel Ben Zenou, Julia Ford, Joe Stilgoe, Nick Moran, Rebecca Lee, Hannah Hutch, Lewis Maiella, Matthew Bates, Leanne Best, Tom Machell, Jaime Winstone, Jacob Krichefski, Jonathan Rhodes, Todd Von Joel, Rob Hughes, Peter Hamilton Dyer, James Atherton, Samantha Spiro, Nathan Harmer, Honor Kneafsey, Lewis Kirk, Florence Keen, Cally Lawrence, Dean Roberts, Laurent Maurel, Zoë Wanamaker, Sue Elliott-Nichols, Robin Sebastian, Charlie Archer, Robert East, Jerry-Jane Pears, Adam Lazarus, Marty Cruikshank, Luke Allen-Gale, Toby Wharton, Rose Robinson, Nicola Munns