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Salad Days (musical) Salad Days (musical) Salad Days is a musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. The musical was initially performed in 1954 in the UK in Bristol and then in the West End, where it ran for 2,283 performances. Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds had been working together on writing musicals since 1952, writing the book, music and lyrics. Reynolds was also an actress. They wrote "Salad Days" as a "summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic's resident company." The title is taken from William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra": "My salad days, When I
Salad days in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says: ...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood... The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean “a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green' — presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. Her references to "green" and "cold" both suggest qualities of salads. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage" summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is