Overview
The tremendously successful West End hit set in the elegant fur salon of
Bodley, Bodley & Crouch. Gilbert Bodley, a flamboyant extrovert, is
scheming to seduce a beautiful stripper, Janie, with the aid of a
£5,000 mink. Unfortunately, she is married and her husband, Harry, would
notice such an acquisition. So Gilbert reduces the mink to £500 and
Janie tries to get Harry to buy the coat for her, Gilbert paying the
difference. Harry realizes a bargain when he sees one and buys it
instead for his own curvaceous little secretary, Sue. Gilbert is quite demented by this turn of events and both he and his
dithering assistant, Arnold Crouch, are further embarrassed when Janie
strips and refuses to leave the salon without the mink. Their frenzied
attempts to retrieve the coat from Sue and hide the naked Janie are
further complicated by the unexpected arrival of Gilbert’s wife, Maud.
Meanwhile, Arnold’s method of hiding any discarded ladies’ underwear is
to throw them out of the window and it is left to Miss Tipdale, the
firm’s spinster secretary, to retrieve the garments and the situation
whenever necessary. The hilarious permutations reach a point of hysteria
before everyone gets their just desserts.