Falling Stars

Not long after World War I and the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic Charlie Chaplin wrote a hit tune that is now largely forgotten but provides an upbeat message still relevant in 2020 The while you sing a song your troubles fade away it goes urging us to just smile and swing along It is one of the songs featured in Peter Polycarpous new musical revue Falling Stars which mines the vast American and British and sometimes French songbook of the 1920s and 1930s Originally due to be staged at Londons Union Theatre in November it has been filmed for streaming online to help us through the dark days of lockdown