Pick Yourself Up

Synopsis

It’s showtime at The Trocadero and things are not what they seem. Public Enemy Number One - Joe "Hatchetface" Tamales thinks he’s found a world-renowned shrink to cure his sick daughter. But she’s not really sick; just love-sick. And the shrink’s not really a doctor; he’s Tom, a dancer from the club. Swapping top hat and tails for fake beard and dodgy Austrian accent Tom parades as the eccentric Dr Herman Bratwurst. He’s going to need more than fancy footwork to pull off this performance! Strike up the Band for a fast-paced, feel-good frenzy in 1930s New York! Packed with the most popular songs by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern including I Got Rhythm, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, I’ve Got You Under my Skin, Let’s Misbehave and many more. It’s just the tonic, so Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 7 March 2011

The Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch has built itself a reputation for producing successful musicals, both repertoire standards and original pieces. Latest in the sequence is Stephen Wyatt’s Pick Yourself Up, for which he has cannibalised the plot from [Molière]”s Le médicin malgré lui and the music mainly from Jerome Kern and Cole Porter.

We are in a night-club somewhere in Manhattan. during the Prohibition Era of the 1930s. That is, when we’re not in a street outside the club, or in the local crime boss’ luxurious mansion. This mafioso, Joe (Simon Jessup), has a problem. He needs to marry off his daughter Gloria (Sarah Scowen) to a rival. But she, of course, is in love with someone else – the slightly dippy Harry (Jared Ashe).

Meanwhile back at the club proprietor Alphonse (Tom Jude) has not only to keep the gangsters happy but to ensure that his song-and-dance duo of Ruby ([Natasha Moor...

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