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Thur, Fri, Sat, 31st AUG, SEPT 1,2,7,8,9 2000 (matinee Sept 9) |
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CHARLESTON FEVER |
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You need Java to see this applet. |
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You need Java to see this applet. |
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By Gordon Gribbin |
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Charleston Fever Song |
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Keep Yourself Nice |
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It's Sad But True |
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Scit-Scatting The Charleston |
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I Wonder |
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Music & Lyrics to the songs |
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Maybe |
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Two Can Live As Cheaply As One |
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THANKS TO THE CAST FOR A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT |
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Audience comments: Superb, best thing yet, music brilliant, wonderful, best night out I've had for years, free coffee? You've got to be joking. Was that mobile phone meant to ring? |
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| WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? |
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| Set in 1929 in a Melbourne shoe factory. There is trouble when the boss, Shenley, brings the piece rate for a shoe top down by a ha'penny (half a penny, pronounced; hay-p'ny). There's even more trouble when the Federated Union of Cobblers and Shoemakers organiser, Albie Burrage, won't do anything to help because he decides it's a hopeless cause. |
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| Meanwhile some of the staff are entered for a Charleston contest at the Gladys Murray School de Danse where old Bernie and only slightly younger Dud are moonlighting as gigolos. Also entered into the competition are the boss's 4 daughters - young ladies Czana and Louise and girls Liz and Maggie. |
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| THE MUSIC (Click `Music and Lyrics' to hear it and follow lyrics.) |
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In the style of the 1920s flapper era. Original songs - words and music by Gordon Gribbin - include: Charleston Fever, It's Sad But True, I Wonder, They Call It The Charleston, Bein' Poor, Two Can Live As Cheaply As One, Maybe, Keep Yourself Nice etc. There is also room in the script for insertion of public domain music of the era.
Opportunities abound for spectacular dance routines. |
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CHARACTERS |
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Dunny cleaner and odd job man
Tea and sandwich lady
Ballroom dance teacher
Trade Union Rep and Shoemaker
Trade Union Convenor
Cobbler
Cobbler
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Manager of Shenley's Shoes
Foreman of workshop
Apprentice cobbler
Apprentice dyer
Owner's wife
Owner's teenage daughter
Owner's teenage daughter
Owner's younger daughter
Owner's younger daughter
Owner's son |
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BERNIE HOGAN
EDIE WINTERBOTTOM
GLADYS MURRAY
IRENE HIGGINS
ALBANY BURRAGE
DUD HALLIDAY
JOHNNO MORRISSY
LULU HARGREAVES
RENEE RAWSTROCK
LUCY TUTTLE
EFFIE BALDOCK
MINNIE BURNSIDE
ARNOLD TOMLINSON
DICK EDWARDS
GEORGE MADDISON
BERTIE CONROY
AGNES SHENLEY
CZANA SHENLEY
LOUISE SHENLEY
MAGGIE SHENLEY
LIZZIE SHENLEY
KEITH SHENLEY
CHORUS of workers, male and female. |
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Gordon Gribbin |
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trying for that intelligent look (and failing) |
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| Other musical and plays |
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Back to:
Gordonoz
Animals
Bears
Music & Lyrics
Gordon Gribbin Bio |
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