Let the Custard fly! SIYT present the stage version of the outstanding 1976 musical film. Loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931 during the Prohibition era, Alan Parker's script tells of the exploits of gangster Dandy Dan, inspired by big league criminals of the age like Al Capone and Bugs Moran and how they dramatized in cinema. With songs and a score written by Oscar winner Paul Williams, this will be something special.

The gangsters and their rapid-fire custard-shooting "splurge guns" antics hang out at Fat Sam's speakeasy, where chantuese Blousey Brown meets penniless boxing promoter Bugsy Malone. Can Blousey and Bugsy's love be requited - well possibly, but not without Fat Sam's girlfriend Tallulah trying to steal Bugsy first and plot that takes us on a journey through a melee of Custard.

Bugsy Malone will be performed at Burgess Hall in St. Ives on 18th - 21th July 2012 and casting is planned for this Spring.

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
Parker was born into a working class family in Islington, North London - the son of a dressmaker and a house painter. Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. His film career began when he wrote the screenplay for the 1971 movie Melody. Parker's films include Midnight Express (1978). This was a highly controversial film set in a Turkish prison that was lauded by critics and ended up earning a number of nominations, including Best Director for Parker. He was later nominated for Best Director with Mississippi Burning (1988) and has directed a number of one-off musicals including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980), Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), The Commitments (1991) and Evita (1996). More recently his work includes Angela's Ashes(1999) and The Life of David Gale (2003).

Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including the Carpenters as well as his contributions to films such as Evergreen in  A Star Is Born and "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie. He has also had a variety of acting roles in films such as the villainous Swan in Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise (which Williams also co-scored, receiving an Oscar nomination in the process), as well as television, theater, and voiceover work for animation. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and his songs have been performed by both popular and country music artists. He has won one Academy Award  and has been nominated for several others. He wrote the music for a musical production of Happy Days that debuted in 2007 and also made a cameo appearance as an animated version of himself singing "Mix music with the science" in the hit animated TV series Dexters Laboratory.In April 2009, Williams was elected President and Chairman of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

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