Sandy Wilson, writer of The Boyfriend musical, London
Feb. 28 Youngest musical hit writer Sandy Wilson running over the lead number from his hit show. The Boyfriend, is Sandy Wilson and his friend and partner in a Musical act, Jon Rose. SANDY WILSON - THE BOYFRIEND makes him famous overnight. Fame and fortune have come to Sandy Wilson overnight. In theatrical circles he is being described as the brightest young writer since Noel Coward. Sandy Wilson, aged 29, is the author of The Boyfriend which drew packed houses at the Embassy, Swiss Cottage and is now a roaring success at Wyndham's Theatre and is to be staged on Broadway in the summer. The Boyfriend is a musical comedy set in the roaring period of the 1920s, when Sandy Wilson was a baby in his pram, but in spite of that he has managed to capture the spirit of those years and so have the young people in the show, some of whom weren't even born in 1920. Wilson has written many sketches but this is his first full length play. He studied at Oxford and his family intended he should be a diplomat, but he installed himself in a tiny basement flat in Swiss Cottage with a piano and a beautiful Persian cat and went on writing. He still lives in in the flat and still does his own chores, but the money is now coming in and he says he's going to have a few more luxuries around the place
