The Stripper

Synopsis

California 1961, and there’s trouble in Pine City. This was a case for Lieutenant Al Wheeler. First call was delectable Deadpan Dolores, a strawberry blonde who worked at the Club Extravaganza. She didn’t usually keep things under wraps, so what was she hiding? With a nose for crime and an eye for the ladies, Wheeler will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth. Characters from Carter Brown’s classic pulp fiction jump off the page in this fast-paced musical from the writer of The Rocky Horror Show. Take 18 ice cool songs written and arranged by award-winning composer Richard Hartley added together with Richard O’Brien’s witty lyrics and you’ll be in adolescent pulp-fiction heaven.

Our Review:

25 September 2009

It was a quarter before ten in a ritzy part of town. I’d just spent a couple of hours under cover with some well-dressed types, watching a bunch of crooners and hoofers in a new musical entertainment with the catchy handle of The Stripper.

This wiseguy O’Brien – [Richard O’Brien] – had taken a pulp fiction novel set in 1961 California, thrown a few jazzy numbers at it with a tunesmith named Richard Hartley, and put it up there on a stage for guys like me to spit at.

Like a dame in a Playboy centrefold, it looked good on paper. It had a pedigree longer than a Royal Corgi, some wisecracking one-liners with all the punch of a Smith and Wesson, and a central character played by Jonathan Wrather who could charm the pants off your maiden aunt.

And that was when it hit me: somebody killed the show. But who? And, more important for a dick like me, how?

I ran through the list of suspects. First up, the crooners. Nope – that Wrather kid was at the front of a queue of talent...

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