Photo: Vincent Price & Patricia Routledge in the original production of Darling of the Day (1968)

Please Note: Darling of the Day will be performed at The National Portrait Gallery in the Ondaatje Wing Theatre

Darling of the Day tells the story of a celebrated artist yearning for anonymity. He fakes his own death and assumes his valet's identity but carries on painting - which means that his art mysteriously keeps reappearing.

The show is based on Arnold Bennett's The Great Adventure, and was adapted by Jule Styne (Gypsy, Funny Girl), E.Y. Harburg (Finian’s Window, Wizard of Oz) and Nunnally Johnson (The Grapes of Wrath, Roxie Hart).

Part of Lost Musicals 2010 »