1. Michael Crawford became famous in the TV
comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973-1975, and 1978), playing
Frank Spencer, a
bumbling and
ineffectual clot who did terrific
slapstick routines (he did all his own hair-raising
stunts) and couldn't get a
job for more than a day wihout leaving large piles of
wreckage and a few
nervous breakdowns in his wake.
He wore a beret, his catchphrase was a limp "Ooh, Betty" to his wife (Betty was played by Michelle Dotrice), and occasionally he tried and failed to exert his authority by asserting "I'm a man!". They did however -- somehow -- have a daughter Jessica.
The first reaction of most people on hearing that someone called Michael Crawford was going to appear in a musical was probably, "Not the Michael Crawford? Not Frank Spencer? But he's not a singer, is he?".
2. Dr Michael Crawford is a
scientist at the Institute of
Brain Chemistry and Human
Nutrition in London. In his 1989 book
The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future he presented significant
evidence in favour of the
Aquatic Ape Theory, principally that the modern
human brain is unlikely to have developed on a
savannah diet, but could have found the
long-chain fatty acids it is built from easily in the
seafood of a
littoral environment.