Stepping Out, which enjoyed a successful run West End run at the Duke of York’s Theatre, is a warm and very funny play about the lives , laughs and loves of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall.
There is ex-professional dancer Mavis, who runs the class, Sylvia, Andy, Vera, Maxine, Lynne, Rose and Geoffery, the lone man and not forgetting sharp tongued Mrs. Fraser the pianist.
As the play progresses, we get to know them and follow not only their tap-dancing capabilities or lack of them but also their personal lives. The class’s dancing improves to such an extent that by the climax, a grand charity performance, they have been transformed from raw beginners into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line.