Bats’ Bay revival without the zimmer frames
THEATRE on The Bay has a bumper season of productions confirmed. Multi-award winning singer, musician, actor Jonathan Roxmouth is due at the theatre soon in Stage by Stage, from March 16 to 21.
Roxmouth released a debut album of the same name last year. It’s a wide selection of songs from the greatest musicals in the biz, a clutch of which he has appeared in.
In Stage By Stage, he shares some of his own personal anecdotes that give viewers a peek backstage. Expect highlights such as the raucous Broadway Baby, the swinging Luck Be A Lady Tonight and the grooving Beauty School Dropout.
Playwright Roy Smiles’ irreverent trilogy on comedy history ends fittingly with his ingenious comic review, Pythonesque, from March 25 to April 11 with the The Best of Monty Python. Having conjured up the spirit of The Goons in Ying Tong – A Walk with the Goons, and resurrecting the ground-breaking satire of Beyond the Fringe and Pete and Dud in Good Evening, Smiles now completes the trilogy with Pythonesque, a play commissioned by Pieter Toerien that was first seen at venue in 2009.
It is directed by Alan Swerdlow ( Constellations, The Mousetrap) and features Robert Fridjhon, Graham Hopkins, Theo Landey and Russel Savadier as The Pythons.
The Swing Café Variety Show will be staged for one night only on March 29 featuring comedy legend Mel Miller. Joining Miller as MC is popular drag act Mary Scary, and a cast made up of some of the best of the weekly version of the Swing Café Variety Show at Mercury Live & Lounge on Tuesdays until May 5.
The Bats make a comeback on April 13 to 18. Eddie Eckstein (Awesome-Eddie), Paul Ditchfield (Incredi–Paul), Pete Clifford (SPete-tacular) and Derek Gordon (Derek-table) reform as The Bats – the legendary act who began in the 60’s and played through the decades.
They plan to celebrate their Golden Jubilee this year without zimmer frames.
Alan Committie will star Little Shop of Horrors from April 24 to June 6. From its Off-Off-Broadway premiere in 1982 and its move to the Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway where it played for more than five years and its subsequent success, Little Shop Of Horrors has written itself into the musical theatre history books, taking its place alongside other cult musicals like Rocky Horror Show and Sweeney Todd.
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