Which actress played Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques?
Acorn Antiques: The Musical! on DVD on 13 March, 2006. Acorn Antiques: The Musical! Acorn Antiques: The Musical! is a musical about an antiques dealer, based on the parodic soap opera of the same name by Victoria Wood. It premiered in the West End in 2005, and starred Julie Walters and Celia Imrie. The musical won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical and was nominated as Best New Musical. Victoria Wood decided to revive the original concept to satirise musical theatre with "Acorn Antiques: The Musical!", with the intent to give people a "lovely, happy night in
Acorn Antiques crew outside "Does a faithful dog expect to be kicked? That show was my life." The sketches even led to a fanzine and appreciation gatherings where fans would dress up as the characters. In 2004, in a poll on its website, Channel 4 voted "Acorn Antiques" the 7th best comedy sketch of all time. The show made a brief return to television in 1992 in "Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast", her satire on daytime television. A sketch of its soap, "The Mall", ends with Mrs Overall returning to reopen Acorn Antiques, mentioning that the other principal characters had been killed