 According to the liner notes, Morris, Rawlence, and Nyman had to spend much time convincing the real Mrs. P. (whose husband is implied to have been a known name) that they were not proposing a musical (her word) that would trivialize her late husband's situation in order to gain her consent.Rawlence made a film version in 1987.It made brief omissions from the music (most notably the self-referential line, "That's Nyman!