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A Slice of Saturday Night

Books, Music and Lyrics by
The Heather Brothers

Directed by: Kate Ghent

Musical Director: Jean Hollier

Choreographer: Nicki Bramwell

16 November -  2 December 2000

Rick: Robert Arnold
Bridget: Shirley Carrick
Gary: Nick Gibbs
Penny: Johanna Hogendoorn
Eric: Steve Lloyd
Sue: Andrea McColl
Eddie: Gary Mills
Sharon: Rebecca Stone
Barman: Cheryl Moeau
Shack Spice: Stephen Morrison

The Club-A-Go-Go, run by Eric ‘Rubber legs’ DeVene, a faded rock star, is where "the action is" on Saturday night, which means chatting-up, the boasting, the heartaches - in fact, all the highs and lows of teenage emotions. A knowing and affectionate look back to the 60s, with a fast-moving score of doo-wop, soft rock, and many laughs (and a few reminiscent sighs) along the way! It’s Saturday Night at the provincial "Club A-Go-Go" and three blokes and four birds are out on the pull. The girls, chalk-faced, pale lipped and lacquered to perfection are desperate to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or Dusty Springfield. The lads in their button-down collars and leather caps are all would-be Beatles or embryo Donovans. However, beneath the girls’ skimpy Mary Quant and St Laurent copied dresses beat virginal Barbara Cartland hearts, while inside the lads’ cool, hipster trousers lurk the impulses which have driven adolescents to distraction since the dawn of time.

Sue is going out with Gary, who chats up Penny and any other bit of stuff that looks his way. Sharon fancies Rick who fancies Sharon but can’t pluck up courage to tell her because she hasn’t told him. Eddie fancies Bridget who doesn’t fancy anyone. And so, watched over by ageing rocker Eric (Rubber-legs) De Vene, the club’s seen-it-all, done-it-all owner, we follow then as they wend their way through teenage sexual mores as rigid and predictable as any New Guinea tribesman’s initiation rights.

Music style is an electric cross-section of famous 60’s numbers – from Cliff Richard and the Shadows to Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and the Beatles.

This Heather Brothers’ homage to the Swinging Sixties music was a smash-hit success when presented at the King’s Head Theatre and transferred to the Arts Theatre, London, where it enjoyed a long run.

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17-Feb-02

  
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