A
Load of Bullamakanka
Written
by Harold Minear
Director Rosie Aust
Musical Director David D’Angelo
Season: November 5 – 15, 2003
Synopsis:
Bullamakanka is a mythical town, it was made famous by the great Australian
comedian George Wallace, who called himself “the boy from Bullamakanka”.
Harold Minear is a greatly respected and talented man in our Community Theatre world, following the great success of Fair Crack Of The Whip in 2000, St Jude’s Players asked Harold Minear if he would write another musical revue.
A Load of Bullamakanka was the result. A fun filled revue sending up the things we “love to hate”…..….. politicians, sport, city councils to name just a few.
Lots of music, songs, dance, skits - a fabulous “revue romp” in typical St. Jude’s style.
Rosie Aust directed the very successful musical Nunsense in the previous year and thoroughly enjoyed her first foray into revue.
David D’Angelo an accomplished musician and songwriter, wrote some original music for this revue and played both piano and bass guitar. Our evergreen and popular Mel Tickle was on drums with Ian Fleming playing guitar.
Cast
Megan Humphries
Joanne McDonald
Kay Saunders
Deb Walsh
Greg Janzow
Haydn Madigan
Paul Richardson
Paul Bock
Scenic
Artist - Janet Ralph
- assisted by Jessica Aust
Additional Music - Robert McCarthy
Monologue - John Horwood
Photographs -
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 Show Poster |
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Cast
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 Director: Rosie Aust |
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| Review….. “That great old vaudevillian George Wallace, the original Boy from Bullamakanka, would have enjoyed this lighthearted poke at personalities and current affairs” — so said reviewer Russell Starke. Harold Minear, a master of double entendre, exercises his prodigious wit in a script which takes pot shots at John Howard, graffiti gangs, Pauline Hanson, Eddie McGuire and Sam Newman among others, in the many quick sketches which make up the production. Rosie Aust directs the show with plenty of bang and not a whimper in sight, her musical trio of David D'Angelo, Ian Fleming and Mel Tickle rollick along with great gusto, belting out new songs and old tunes as well as an occasional Aussie monologue from Tickle. The cast of eight play a multitude of characters, dishing out one-liners, slipping easily into song and dance routines. They make it clear that their Aussie town of Bullamakanka (for a whole lot of "Bull" based jokes) is set firmly in the middle of Canberra. The Queen, Charles and Camilla get a right Royal going over, Greg Janzow and Joanne McDonald present an adult's version of ABC's Playschool, Paul Richardson and Kay Saunders are wickedly clever and saucily suggestive as Olympic stars Thorpe and Tatiana, with plenty of references to pole vaults and big feet in verses set to the tune of Animal Crackers. Megan Humphries, one of the best voices in showbiz in this town, and Deb Walsh create two outrageous characters as curbside Sulo bins waiting to be "forked" by "that spunky young garbo". Paul Bock debuts on stage as a rough, tough rap-dancing street kid and 72-year-old Haydn Madigan's great voice waxes lyrical in a pensioners attack on the Prime Minister in Johnny Boy to the tune of the Londonderry Air. That old party song and dance, The Hokey Pokey, is revamped as Doin' the Naughty Pokey for a girls night out at the local pub with poker machines in the line of fire "you put a dollar, you put another dollar in ..." and the four men do a clever piece of synchronized work with Ring, Ring on mobile phones. A wildly luminescent backdrop, simple props and costumes, nifty dance routines and lots of gags make this a very happy, user friendly show, reminiscent of the old Flinders Street Revues and perfect to chase away the blues. |
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