That Day We Sang was originally devised as stage play for the Manchester International Festival. Victoria Wood has adapted her play for the small screen as writer and director.
The film is set in Manchester in 1969. Imelda Staunton plays Enid, a secretary who is having an affair with her boss. Michael Ball is Tubby, an insurance salesman. Deep down they are two lonely middle aged people who once sang in a children's choir forty years earlier and have reunited for a Granada television special.
The film is peppered with songs, a few undoubtedly containing Victoria Wood's witticisms. There is even a Busby Berkeley type musical song and dance number.
It is deep down a schmaltzy love story, it just felt dull and the songs boring. Victoria Wood fans will lap it up, but despite the charms of the two leads this play never took off as far as I am concerned. Its not well written, not enough about the 1929 storyline, people obsessed about weight and Enid only realises at the end who Tubby is that looked shoddy. I think there is also the problem with Wood's directing. She should not had directed this for television and left it to someone more experienced.
The film is set in Manchester in 1969. Imelda Staunton plays Enid, a secretary who is having an affair with her boss. Michael Ball is Tubby, an insurance salesman. Deep down they are two lonely middle aged people who once sang in a children's choir forty years earlier and have reunited for a Granada television special.
The film is peppered with songs, a few undoubtedly containing Victoria Wood's witticisms. There is even a Busby Berkeley type musical song and dance number.
It is deep down a schmaltzy love story, it just felt dull and the songs boring. Victoria Wood fans will lap it up, but despite the charms of the two leads this play never took off as far as I am concerned. Its not well written, not enough about the 1929 storyline, people obsessed about weight and Enid only realises at the end who Tubby is that looked shoddy. I think there is also the problem with Wood's directing. She should not had directed this for television and left it to someone more experienced.