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Synopsis

It's 1971 and computer geek, Michael Dork, is about to change the world! However, a new complication has just entered his life... girls! Along with his sci-fi obsessed, social-misfit friends Lucas, Francis and Marvin, Michael fights to get computers taken seriously in a world of typewriters. When Holly turns up at school all of Michael's dreams seem to be coming true - at last a girl with looks and brains that actually notices him. But when rich kid Eddie discovers Holly's dark secret, he turns his back on girlfriend Leia, and sets about to ruin Michael and his friends' future dreams. LOSERVILLE - if you can't predict the future...invent it.

Our Review: starstarstar

18 October 2012


Eliza Hope Bennett & Aaron Sidwell. Photo: Francis Loney

You wouldn't want to admit to feeling at home with a new musical called Loserville, but Elliot Davis and James Bourne's new show - produced by Kevin Wallace in collaboration with the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Youth Music Theatre UK - doesn't exactly invite audience identification anyway.

It's a goofy cod American throwback - why?! - to the Grease-style high school musical (without the catchy ersatz rock and roll qualities of Grease) in which a bunch of pimply geeks get over-excited about the school's first computer system (the year is 1971) and sniff the future dating possibilities of e-mail.

Yes, it's a sort of home-made Meccano version of The Social Network, with a bunch o...

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Hayley - 31 October 2012: starstarstarstarstar

Went on Saturday to the matinee having read some of the reviews. I expected not to like it, but really did! Thought the young cast were great and will be going back again! Well done to everyone in the show....

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