Trivia / Tell Me on a Sunday

• Actor-Inspired Element: Marti Webb dislikes spending time in cool spaces and ice in drinks, so Don Black wrote it into a lyric for the show.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: Take That Look Off Your Face was a #3 hit in the Charts.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original 1980 TV version was never released to video and for some time only home recordings existed until 2023, when it broadcasted again on BBC Four and the whole thing is available.
• Star-Making Role: Marti Webb became a household name for the Telecast even though she had been an actress for 20 years.
• Technology Marches On: The 1980 TV Version (and the stage productions that followed it throughout the decade) now show their age because the protagonist's letters to her mother are sent through the regular mail rather than email or texting. Though updates were made for the 2003 production, it could be argued that the story doesn't work as well in a modern setting because instant communication makes the girl's leaving her family and moving to another country not as big of a deal as it once was. Now she could text them or even have a live video chat with them anytime.
• What Might Have Been: Tell Me On A Sunday, was going to be part of a series of Made for TV Musicals.
  • Tim Rice was originally going to write it with Andrew Lloyd Webber, however, this version was set in the UK and Andrew realised Tim was writing it with Elaine Paige in mind, whom he was in a relationship with so Andrew went with Don Black.
  • Before Song and Dance used Variations, Andrew and Don planned a small operatic piece about Giacomo Puccini and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's friendship. While it was scrapped, Andrew wrote the melody for Memory, which appeared in Cats. Also, they looked at doing a piece based on The Signal-Man, which Andrew felt would be too depressing.