The film was written solo but then Bob Eaton, who was the then director of the Everyman, where I used to have my office, came in one day and said 'We'd like to do a musical in conjunction with the Youth Theatre of "Our Day Out"'...

The Musical 1996

Stage version at Belgrade Theatre Coventry. "With Bob Eaton and Glen Walford I overhauled the whole show, restructuring, writing new songs, introducing new elements to the text; ever since the hastily put together first production I'd wanted to devote time to making Our Day Out into the really big musical that I thought it deserved to be. We got a long way towards achieving that in Coventry, helped in no small way by a great cast of young actors from the Coventry area. We didn't, though, fully get there and, along with Bob and Glen I'm still hoping that we can mount one more production, the one that will, in terms of musical theatre, take Our Day Out all the way.

The two groups (X & Y) performed
on alternate nights.