Editing Dudley Moore (section)

===''Beyond the Fringe''===
[[File:Beyond the Fringe original cast.JPG|thumb|Moore (left) in ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'', c. 1963. Creating a boom in [[satirical comedy]], thousands of shows were played on both sides of the Atlantic.<ref>{{cite news |title=The day that sparked the satire boom |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3650808/The-day-that-sparked-the-satire-boom.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3650808/The-day-that-sparked-the-satire-boom.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=27 September 2019 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>]]
[[Johnny Bassett|John Bassett]], a graduate of [[Wadham College, Oxford]] recommended Moore, his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret talent, to producer Robert Ponsonby, who was putting together a comedy revue entitled ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]''. Bassett also chose [[Jonathan Miller]]. Moore then recommended [[Alan Bennett]], who in turn suggested [[Peter Cook]].

''Beyond the Fringe'' was at the forefront of the 1960s UK [[satire boom]], although the show's original runs in Edinburgh and the provinces in 1960 had had a lukewarm response. When the revue transferred to the [[Fortune Theatre]] in London, in a revised production by [[Donald Albery]] and [[William Donaldson]], it became a sensation, thanks in some part to a favourable review by [[Kenneth Tynan]].<ref>Humphrey Carpenter ''That Was Satire That Was'', pp. 122–23; Tynan's review is extensively quoted.</ref> There were also a number of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the [[Colonel Bogey March]] in the style of Beethoven, which Moore appears unable to bring to an end.

In 1962 the show transferred to the [[John Golden Theatre]] in New York, with its original cast. President [[John F. Kennedy]] attended a performance on 10 February 1963. The show continued in New York until 1964.