Editing Julian Slade (section)

==Biography ==
Born in [[London]], England, in 1930,<ref name="Larkin50">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2002|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-937-0|page=401}}</ref> he moved with his family in 1940 to [[Painswick]], Gloucestershire, where he spent his formative years, becoming a young member of the village dramatic society.<ref>{{cite news |title= Obituary |date=July 2006 |url= http://www.painswickbeacon.org.uk/archive/2006/jul06.pdf |work=The Painswick Beacon |accessdate=18 June 2012}}</ref>  He was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he was the first [[Footlights Vice President]].<ref name="Larkin50"/> After leaving Cambridge he went on to the drama school at the [[Bristol Old Vic]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Julian Slade Biography |website= Musical-Theatre.net |url= http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/composers/julianslade.html |accessdate= 2008-05-30 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080619001204/http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/composers/julianslade.html |archive-date= 2008-06-19 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

During his time at the Old Vic, Slade wrote incidental music for several productions including ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' and ''[[The Duenna]]''.<ref name="Larkin50"/> In 1954, he was asked to write a musical for the Old Vic Summer Season. It was then that he came up with ''[[Salad Days (musical)|Salad Days]]'' with [[Dorothy Reynolds]].<ref name="Larkin50"/> The show was such a success that it moved to London, where it ran for over 2,288 performances<ref>{{cite news |title= Julian Slade Obituary |newspaper= [[The Independent]] |date=23 June 2006 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julian-slade-405084.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121022180444/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julian-slade-405084.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= October 22, 2012 |accessdate= 2008-05-30 |location=London}}</ref> - a record at the time. It was in London that a young [[Cameron Mackintosh]] saw the show with his aunt and decided to become a [[theatrical producer]]. Slade and Mackintosh stayed close friends throughout his life.

Slade's second most successful musical was ''[[Free as Air]]'', written with Dorothy Reynolds, which opened at the Opera House in Manchester in 1957, before moving to the Savoy Theatre, London, where it ran for 417 performances.<ref name="Larkin50"/>