All tickets $20

DOOR SALES FROM 5.30pm

G-String Productions
presents

A SLiCE 
of
SaTuRDaY NiGHT

the swingin´ sixties rock Musical
live on stage

Words and music by the Heather Brothers
By special arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd

LAST SHOWS ...
Fri. 19 March 7.30pm
Sat. 20 March 7.30pm

Longford
Town Hall
Wellington Street

All tickets $20

DOOR SALES FROM 5.30pm 

Expect 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!

The story tells a tale of teenage dreams and young love set around the 1960s in a nightclub called Club-a-Go-Go.

Girls in mini-skirts and boys in Chelsea boots sing songs about teen trauma that sound like all those 60s hits you´ve heard on retrospective shows

The Club-A-Go-Go, run by Eric ´Rubber legs´ DeVere, 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 musical pastiche that takes you spinning back to the swinging decade to celebrate the eternal embarrassment of being a teenager

Seven teenagers dance and eye each other and flirt on a Saturday night at popular Club A Go Go in a town in the British provinces. 

Sue is going out with Gary, but he flirts with Penny and the other girls at every opportunity.  Sharon and Rick like each other but are too shy to tell each other.  Eddie is challenged by the boys to persuade "frigid" Bridget to "touch his whatsit" by closing time, over the course of the night he trys everything, with very little success.

The owner of the club, aging rocker Eric "Rubber-legs" De Vere, watches and lends an ear to the young people as they navigate the rituals of teenage fashion, music, sexual moves and relationships.

...another synopsis??

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 all is watched over by ageing rocker Eric (Rubber-legs) De Vere, the club´s seen-it-all, done-it-all owner...

Most of the Musical Numbers…

Baby I Love You
The Boy Of My Dreams
Cliff
Club a-Go-Go
Don´t Touch Me
Eric´s Gonna Keep Doing
Eric´s Hokey Cokey
Heartbreaker
I Fancy You
If You Wanna Have Fun
It Wouldn´t Be Saturday Night Without A Fight
Last Saturday Night
Lies
The Long Walk Back
Love On Our Side
Oh So Bad
P.E.
Please Don´t Tell Me
Romance/Wham Bam
Saturday Chat
Sentimental Eyes
Seventeen
A Slice of Saturday Night
Twiggy
Waiting
What Do I Do Now?
What Do You Do?
Who´d Be Seventeen
You´re So Oh .....

What to expect…

"A pleasurable, lightly satirical revel in Sixties manners and music ... with bite, kick and hanky-panky." Guardian

"The Heather Brothers´ musical spoof on the Saturday night rituals of pubescent 17-year-old delinquents in the 60s is full of such clever self-mocking charm that it´s difficult to come away feeling anything but thoroughly entertained ...”

“…the real pleasure comes from the Brothers´ shameless poaching of an eclectic cross-section of famous 60s numbers - Cliff and the Shads to Bob Dylan via the Beatles - superb comic pastiche and sharp, cuff-link humour " Time Out

G-String Productions is the creation of Rod and Liz Beaver, lovers of cabaret and musical theatre.

The company made its name in Canberra before it relocated to Longford a few years ago. It has staged Shout! at the Princess Theatre and Nunsense in Longford. 

G-String intends to continue in the same vein, making cabaret-style musical theatre based locally in Tasmania.