OBITUARY
George Logan, one half of drag act Hinge and Bracket, dies aged 78
Pianist and one half of the act who posed as elderly and intellectual musicians, who brought a gentler and more genteel form of drag comedy to television in the Seventies
Logan as Dr Evadne Hinge, left, with Patrick Fyffe’s character Dame Hilda Bracket. Logan based his character on “middle-aged spinsters from the Joyce Grenfell era”
ALAMY
George Logan was needed urgently at the Escort Club in Pimlico, central London. Patrick Fyffe was doing a drag act and his regular pianist had not shown up. Logan arrived with a few minutes to go, but Fyffe was not reassured. “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” the young Scot said, glancing briefly at the songs, “I know all those”, and disappeared to find a drink.
On stage they impressed each other with their talents and in 1972 Logan clambered into an evening frock to emerge as Dr Evadne Hinge, to Fyffe’s Dame Hilda Bracket. “Initially, Patrick was going to play an elderly lady with me as her male sidekick. But during rehearsals we tried a couple of duets and Patrick suggested performing as two ladies,” Logan recalled.