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LAMPS
will be staging a Spring Show at the Royal Victoria Hall Theatre
Will be
performed 1st to 6th JUNE 2010
Director
– Harriet Spackman – harri.spackman@hotmail.com
Choreographer
– Adele Ebbage – EbbageAdele@aol.com
MD –
Simon Holland – sitravel@hotmail.com
Producer
– Carol Smith – calor_smith@yahoo.co.uk
HELP
NIGHTS
TUESDAY 1st
DECEMBER – Tonbridge Juddian’s Rugby Club – 7.45pm
THURSDAY
3rd DECEMBER – St James’ Church Hall – 7.45pm
AUDITIONS
SUNDAY 6th
DECEMBER – 2pm – 7pm at FORDCOMBE VILLAGE HALL.
Any
queries contact the production team – e-mail addresses above.
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Show Information.... THE FULL MONTY Musical in 2 Acts. Book
by Terrence McNally; Music & lyrics by David Yazbek World Premiere - Old
Globe Theater, San Diego June 1, 2000 The Place: Buffalo,
New York - The Time: The Present ACT ONE Georgie Bukatinsky
bounds onto the stage of Tony Giordano's club and welcomes us to Girls' Night
Out. "Let's hear it for gals who work!" While her husband is at
home doing the dishes, she introduces us to the featured attraction of the
evening-Buddy "Keno" Walsh - the personification of male physical
perfection in an expensive business suit, though not for long. Soon enough,
Keno is down to a G-string and accepting the cheers and screams (and dollar
bills) from the women in the club. "Who says Buffalo doesn't rock?" While the women are
having a night out, the guys are having a different kind of meeting. They're
all out of work because the steel plant in town has closed, and they're at
their union meeting house to pick up their weekly cheques. Their discontent
is beginning to show, and Jerry Lukowski commiserates with his best friend,
the hopelessly overweight Dave Bukatinsky, as well as the somewhat
simple-minded but good-hearted Ethan Girard, and the sweet Malcolm MacGregor,
who lives alone with his infirm mother - they all feel like so much scrap. After the meeting,
Jerry, who shares custody of his 12-year-old son Nathan, takes him to the bus
stop which is outside Tony Giordano's club. Nathan tells Jerry not to worry, that
he will get a job. Jerry says that he knows he will, but he's "waiting
for the right situation ... you don't want to see your old man bussing
tables, do you?" Nathan's response is simply "I wouldn't
mind." Nathan tells Jerry he loves him; Jerry responds in kind and tells
Nathan to get on the bus. In the meantime, Dave has been admiring the
pictures of Keno that are outside the club. Jerry dismisses Keno's physique
as a choice "real guys don't look like that." When they overhear
two women excitedly going into the club (and paying $50 to do so), Jerry asks
the women what the strippers have that he doesn't have. "Just about
everything" is their response. When Jerry finds out that Dave's wife is
in the club watching, he insists that Dave go into the club and bring her
out. Dave says he can't - he has to go home and do dishes, and besides it's
ladies only, and Georgie organised the evening. But at Jerry's urging they
sneak in through the window of the men's room. Once inside, the two
hear the screams of the cheering women and then the sounds of Georgie and
three friends entering the men's room because the line for the ladies' room
is too long. Jerry and Dave take refuge in an empty stall while Georgie and
her friends powder their noses. The three ladies are joined by Jerry's
ex-wife Pam, and Jerry and Dave overhear revelations about each other from
each of the ladies. The ladies leave, and Jerry and Dave soon find themselves
confronted by Keno in a G-string making a quick change into a cowboy outfit.
Keno mistakes Jerry for a new dancer for the evening, and Jerry acidly
proclaims his heterosexuality. Keno bitchily dismisses him, and as Jerry
takes a swing at Keno, he misses, and Keno slugs him, hard. After Keno leaves,
Jerry begins brainstorming about the money Keno makes and that if he and Dave
- "real men" - were to strip, they could clean up. Dave needs to be
convinced, and Jerry does his best - after all, he's a man! The next day Jerry is served
with papers threatening to take Nathan away from him because he is over two
months behind in child support payments. Pam is now living in a nice
neighbourhood with a more stable man, Teddy Slaughter, who has asked her to
marry him. Pam tells Jerry that he should take any kind of job he can get and
start to grow up. After an unpleasant confrontation with Teddy, Jerry leaves
more determined than ever to make his stripping plan work. Jerry and Dave are
jogging (or rather, Dave is accompanying Jerry as he trains) when they come
upon Malcolm attempting suicide by asphyxiation. They save him and offer him
alternative ways to commit suicide. Jerry invites Malcolm to join him in
stripping and, since Malcolm has a part-time job as the night security guard
at the abandoned steel plant, they now also have a place to rehearse. Jerry engages Nathan
to find them a dance teacher, and Nathan takes them to a dance school where
they meet their old boss Harold Nichols and his wife Vicki. They're brushing
up on their "cha-cha" for a trip to Puerto Rico. Harold hasn't told
Vicki that he has been out of work for the past six months, and through
desperation and the hint of blackmail Harold agrees to become the guys'
choreographer. But before he can agree to that, Vicki tells them all about
life with Harold. The guys hold
auditions and they aren't going well. However, their showbiz-savvy
accompanist Jeanette Burmeister -ho simply showed up "piano and
all" - tells them they'll know when the right guy shows up. "He'll
glimmer." Enter Horse, a gnarled, depressing and seemingly arthritic
50-year-old man who seems to fulfil a certain kind of fantasy. Later, the
good-natured Ethan shows up and openly proclaims that he can't dance or sing,
but that he has something to offer. He drops his pants and Jeanette simply
says, "Gentlemen, put on your sunglasses. We suddenly have a lot of
glimmer." That night, while
Georgie sleeps, Dave confronts his body image with a love song to his
stomach. And, at the same time, Harold reflects on his adoration of Vicki. At the first rehearsal
the following day, Harold is having a rough time getting the guys to do
anything together. While Horse is off in the corner rehearsing "the
funky chicken," Ethan and Malcolm bond over an affection for the film The
Sound of Music. However, it is only when Harold reminds them that
choreography is just like basketball that Jerry picks up an idea, and
suddenly their moves become teamwork - as long as they are imagining that
they're playing with Michael Jordan's Ball. ACT TWO At rehearsal a week
later, the mistress of understatement, Jeanette, sings that "things
could be better." To no avail, Ethan keeps insisting he can do Donald
O'Connor's flip up a wall from Singin' in the Rain. And any attempt at
choreography brings about disastrous results. In order to perform at
Tony Giordano's club, Jerry needs to come up with $1,000 as a deposit. He
tries to get it from Pam but she'll have none of it. Nathan, however, has
money from his college savings account and gives it to Jerry. Jerry's love of
his son is all-encompassing and overwhelming. Harold persuades Vicki
to leave the house so that they can hold a rehearsal there. Jerry has given
their group a name - Hot Metal. This is the day that the guys are going to
take off all their clothes in front of each other for the first time. They
are fraught with anxiety. When they are hypercritical of the sexy women in a Victoria's
Secret catalogue, they realise that their audience might be just as
critical of them. Nathan has gathered a
small audience from a nearby nursing home for the final dress rehearsal at
the steel plant, but as they are taking off their first layer of clothing
they're raided by the police. In the confusion that follows, Malcolm and
Ethan successfully escape to Malcolm's home where their attraction to one
another is almost acknowledged, until Malcolm senses something is wrong with
his mother. Pam and Teddy arrive at the police station to pick up Nathan, and
it's very clear to everyone that even if Jerry were to come up with the child
support money, he wouldn't be able to share custody of Nathan. At his mother's
funeral, much to the surprise of Jerry and Dave and a few other mourners,
Malcolm expresses his loneliness and longing, and finds that both will be
ended by the warm heart and hand of Ethan. Jerry was afraid to
disclose to the guys that sales for the show weren't going well. When told by
a few women that the Buffalo Bills are playing that night, and, asked why
after having seen "the real thing," they should want to see a bunch
of amateur local guys strip, Jerry quickly says (much to the shock and
disbelief of the guys), "We're different - we go all the way! You heard
me. What do they call it? The Full Monty." Ticket sales start to take
off. Jerry considers Dave a
traitor for having taken a job at Wal-Mart, and their friendship is
dissolved. When Dave returns home from his first day at work, Georgie, upon
discovering part of his stripping costume, confronts him about it. When,
embarrassed, he confesses what he had been up to with the guys, she is
relieved and supports him. She reaffirms her love for him, and he for her. At
the same time, when Vicki finds out that Harold has been out of work, she
reminds him that she loves him for himself, and not for what he can buy her.
Both couples find their marriages and their love on stronger ground than
ever. It's the night of the
show, and backstage at Tony Giordano's club nervousness runs high. A
beautifully coifed Jeanette wishes all the guys good luck. Vicki tells them
that Harold has got a job so he doesn't need to do this for the money, but
she reminded him, "Harold, you have the rest of your life to wear a suit
and tie - but only one night to be a member of Hot Metal!" Even Keno,
just passing through town, shows up to see if the guys will really go all the
way. Before they take their
places Jerry decides that, since Dave chickened out, he also isn't going to
do the show. But then Dave shows up and Jerry no longer has an excuse not to
go through with it, except his old refrain - he's a failure. Nevertheless,
the rest of the guys decide to give a good show, but not to do The Full
Monty. They take their places on-stage and the number begins. While they're
performing, Nathan confronts Jerry about why he isn't out there with the rest
of the guys, and through a mixture of wisdom, passion and frank common sense,
he tells his father, "This time don't be what everyone thinks you are -
a loser." Jerry realises not only how much his son loves him, but that
he can't think of himself in the same way ever again. He joins his friends on
stage midway through the number and by the end of the show, we know that The
Full Monty isn't just about showing off the outside, it's about what all of
us have on the inside. |
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