Stepping Out, which enjoyed a successful 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; cheerfully overweight Sylvia; Andy, a plain do-gooder with no confidence; Maxine, attractive, sharp and very shrewd; fat, plain Lynne; Rose and Geoffrey, the lone male. As the play progresses, the class's dancing improves to such an extent that by the climax, a grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line. Voted Comedy of the Year by the Evening Standards Drama Awards in 1984. CAST

• Mandy White as Mavis
• Lesley Donohue as Mrs Fraser
• Summer Darcy as Lynne
• Dawn Flint as Dorothy
• Nikki Smith as Maxine
• Marina Anderson as Andy
• Mike Shaw as Geoffrey
• Laura Chandler as Sylvia
• Destiny Thomas as Rose
• Margaret Leslie as Vera
• Neeraj Pathak as Stage Manager