Desperate to be Doris

Synopsis

By day Dean works as a filing clerk in his local VAT office, by night he is a tribute act and sings like Doris Day. Already a legend in his living room, Dean longs for a chance to share his Calamity Jane with the world. The opportunity comes when his local operatic society Out of My Range decide to stage the hit musical and Dean plucks up courage to audition.

Our Review:

29 October 2010

This year Lip Service Theatre celebrate their 25th anniversary. In commemoration they are reviving some of their classic shows, including Desperate to be Doris, now playing at the Oldham Coliseum until Saturday 30th October.

This Manchester Evening News Theatre Award nominated production is an outrageous homage to musical icon Doris Day. The production features a selection of Doris’s greatest hits strung happily around the story of Dean, a Buyer for The Pyjama Game, a mail-order nightwear company (in Oldham – at least for this week!). When his local operatic society, Out of My Range, stage the hit musical Calamity Jane, Dean is thrown suddenly in the limelight.

Lip Service duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding could never disappoint, playing a multitude of mixed-gender parts with hilarious results. Their charmingly witty script is clever and original with such well-timed deliveries that it is easy to forget that ther...

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Latest User Review

Madeleine Fogg - 31 October 2010:

My husband saw this and was crying with laughter. He wants to see it again a 2nd time. I was in it in Oldham and had the best fun ever as a member of the choir. I will be seeing it in the audience when it goes to Hull and have urged my son not to miss it in North Finchley in London. I loved every minute of it. The audience feedback has been incredible. Can't wait to be in whatever they do next. It is a cross between Monty Python and Victoria Wood with some Morecambe and Wise thrown in. Thanks to Maggie, Sue and Darren for their incredible performances and of course to Peter Wakefield for inviting us to join their choir. The backstage crew and production team made this whole thing a pleasure from start to finish. ...

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