AuthorRichard Harris
Richard Harris is a British screenwriter and playwright, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. He wrote primarily for the crime and detective genres, having contributed episodes to series such as "The Avengers", "The Saint", "The Sweeney", "Darling Buds of May" and "A Touch Of Frost". He also helped to create several programmes of the genre, including "Adam Adamant Lives!", "Man in a Suitcase" and "Shoestring".
From the 1970s Richard Harris also started writing stage plays, mainly comedies. His most successful include "Outside Edge", written in 1979 and later made into a TV series, and "Stepping Out" which won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Comedy for 1984 and was later adapted into a musical starring Liza Minneli and Julie Walters.
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"Stepping Out" is a rollicking comedy about a group of eight ladies (and one man) at a beginners tap-dancing class in a run down church hall. When they learn they are to perform in a local charity showcase, the pressure is on! As they pull together and prepare for the big day, we follow the characters on a heartwarming journey that celebrates friendship, courage, and of course... dancing! Will they be ready in time?
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