Barbershopera - Apocalypse No!
From: Tuesday, 11th January 2011
To: Saturday, 5 February 2011
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Synopsis
Barbershopera is a comedy barbershop quartet featuring three guys and a girl and since 2007 has charmed audiences across the UK and internationally with their award-winning work. Their shows always retain the original, simple premise: three guys and a girl singing a fully formed a cappella musical.
Our Review:
14 January 2011
It’s doo-be-doo-be-Doomsday in this cheerful, well-mannered, furrow-browed 80-minute a capello quest to save the world from the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
A primary school play in the St Ann’s Leisure Centre is commandeered as the focal point: now dubbed Satan’s Leisure Centre, eager teacher Beth is recruited as the Fourth Horseman, Death.
But God is always in the room, eventually materialising as a small pink cow in the manger of the school’s nativity play, where the little puppet Jesus wields a magic pen, and the Horsemen depart in search of the lost three commandments.
They visit an orphanage run by a suspiciously hairy nun, Sister Tufty; they climb aboard the Jolly Roger with Peter Ham (as in the old days, the boy’s a girl) and Captain Melonscoop (nicer than a Hook); and they overcome the hound of hell and spring-clean his dirty den.
Barbershopera have been a hit on the Edinburgh Festival fringe, their spiritual home...
Creative
Seabright Productions (Producer)
Rob Castell (Book)
Tom Sadler (Book)
Sarah Tipple (Book)
Rob Castell (Music)
Tom Sadler (Music)
Sarah Tipple (Director)
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