Davethehistorian, you’re right Virgil was the last show at the Hippodrome, I was a member of the Virgil show along with my now wife Jackie who was one of the dancers in the show, the week at Wolverhampton was the first week Jackie and I had started going out, we’d only met a few weeks before that when we joined the show, we got married when the show closed at the end of 1956, we were lucky that we decided to load the show out that Saturday night instead of the Sunday morning, we had the fire curtain down whilst we were packing, the fire must have been burning in the Auditorium and we didn’t know anything of it until it was gutted the next morning, we could have lost the whole show and that would have been the end of Virgil’s world tour as it was we stayed friends and in touch with Virgil until his death in 1987 and Julie in 1999.
Davethehistorian, you’re right Virgil was the last show at the Hippodrome, I was a member of the Virgil show along with my now wife Jackie who was one of the dancers in the show, the week at Wolverhampton was the first week Jackie and I had started going out, we’d only met a few weeks before that when we joined the show, we got married when the show closed at the end of 1956, we were lucky that we decided to load the show out that Saturday night instead of the Sunday morning, we had the fire curtain down whilst we were packing, the fire must have been burning in the Auditorium and we didn’t know anything of it until it was gutted the next morning, we could have lost the whole show and that would have been the end of Virgil’s world tour as it was we stayed friends and in touch with Virgil until his death in 1987 and Julie in 1999.