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AUGUST/JULY
2008 NEWS:
Cinderella
at The Grand Theatre, Swansea -
Christmas 2008
Saturday
30th August, 2008 • Thanks
to Mark.....................................................Theatre
The
revised promo flyer for Su's
panto, Cinderella,
Christmas 2008.
This
has been completely revised from
the artwork that appeared a few
months ago, and now features a
solo shot of Su as Peggy
Su has
already featured on the second
box set (series 3 & 4),
released in 2004, so this is
quite an honour and shows how
important the character was to
the series.
The final
DVD set is released on Monday
22nd September.
Join the
yellowcoats in series 8 and 9 of
Hi-De-Hi!
Episodes
are: Series Eight: 1. Pigs
Might Fly, 2. The New Broom, 3.
Orphan Of The Storm, 4. God Bless
Our Family, 5. Only The Brave, 6.
September Song. Series Nine:
1. Tell It To The Marines, 2.
Marry Go Round, 3. The Perils of
Peggy, 4. Let Them Eat Cake, 5.
Wedding Bells, 6. The Wind Of
Change.
Shout!
The New Swinging 60's Musical -
Back in September!
Shout!
The New Swinging 60's Musical,
after a Summer hiatus, opens at
The Mayflower in Southampton on
Tuesday 16th September for a
week-long run of shows.
Su
will, once again, guest on Loose
Women this week. The specific
day of her appearance is still
unknown as yet. Loose Women
airs every weekday at 12.30pm on
ITV1, and is repeated in the
early hours.
It's the
final week of the current run of Shout!The
New Swinging 60's Musical,
the cast arrive in Brighton today
for a week of shows at the
Theatre Royal.
Shout!
The Musical: Theatre
Royal, Nottingham
by
Andy Smart
Ready,
Steady, Go... for a light-hearted
pop-picking trip back to the
Swinging Sixties.
Shout!
hardly qualifies as one of the
great musicals of our time but it
has a fun-filled heart and enough
instantly recognisable girlie pop
songs to send the punters home
with a smile on their lips and a
catchy tune in their heads.
The story,
such as it is, follows the
fortunes of three northern lasses
who head for London at the start
of the Sixties, looking for fame,
fortune and fellers.
There's
Betty (Shona White) the dopey
typist, Georgina (Donna Steele)
the aspiring but hopelessly naive
actress, and Ruby (Claire
Sweeney) the good-time girl with
the one-track mind.
But
instead of the glamour of the
West End, they end up living over
a hair salon in Peckham run by
Aunty Yvonne, a part which gives
Su Pollard the chance to play ...
Su Pollard.
She gives
it her best Nottingham accent,
pinches most of the funny lines
-- although they are almost as
scarce as hen's teeth -- and
holds nothing back as she belts
out pop classics like You're My
World and All I See Is You.
The girls
gossip their way through the
decade, helped by Shout! magazine
editor Tony T (Phil Andrew) who
pops on and off in a variety of
time-travelling outfits to remind
us of iconic Sixties symbols like
Vespas and the Pill, The Beatles
and MacMillan, Dr Finlay and
Cherry B.
It's a
pity there weren't more costumes
for the girls who went through
the changing times without
changing their mini skirts. Not
that I am complaining too much,
Claire Sweeney has got a great
pair of legs.
She sings
well too, as do all the girls,
and that is what this show is all
about. Comedy writer Julie
Balloo's painfully thin script
doesn't really matter, it is just
there to contrive a link to the
next song ... and there are more
than 30 of them starting with
Downtown and England Swings to a
finale which had everyone out of
their seats for a singalong It's
Not Unusual, Georgy Girl and that
raucous title song.
Shout!
won't live long in the memory,
but it is a cheerful reminder
that those really were the
days.
It's the
final week of the current run of Shout!The
New Swinging 60's Musical,
the cast arrive in Brighton today
for a week of shows at the
Theatre Royal. 
