Done with gusto on a shoestring. It's a backhanded compliment, but if I you chanced upon this without knowing it's provenance you'd take it for a minor Hollywood production (with Phyllis Hudson in the Nancy Walker role), with the musical numbers all shot as if on a proscenium.
This impression is reinforced by the lack of any recognisable British faces in the supporting cast (although leading man Lionel Murton later became one and ironically supported Cliff Richard in 'Summer Holiday'); except of course the Royal Family, seen arriving for the cartoonish Technicolor Command Performance finale (which includes 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady', immortalised a few years earlier by Groucho Marx in 'At the Circus').
(P.S. I wonder how many takes it took to get the cat outside the music store to examine the broken disc?)
This impression is reinforced by the lack of any recognisable British faces in the supporting cast (although leading man Lionel Murton later became one and ironically supported Cliff Richard in 'Summer Holiday'); except of course the Royal Family, seen arriving for the cartoonish Technicolor Command Performance finale (which includes 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady', immortalised a few years earlier by Groucho Marx in 'At the Circus').
(P.S. I wonder how many takes it took to get the cat outside the music store to examine the broken disc?)