FIVE floors up, on the roof deck of Soho House private members club in central London, invited guests are gathering for the launch of West End producer Paul Elliot's latest touring enterprise. via Living.scotsman.com
We have had just about everything thrown at the unsuspecting audience as we can handle in the West End. The Vagina Monologues where followed by something to do with someone's penis hanging out, so are we at all suprised when it is women of a certain age who are getting a shot at centre stage this year?
When trying to think of a show surrounding the not so hilarious change in a woman's life, I am quickly brought back to one side splitting night of recent months where I sat through a night with Jenny Eclair and her sweaty, bristly legged stand up show with equally puffy, yet energetic supporting cast. So if we have had the best that the Menopause can offer an unsuspecting audience, how can we be educated further in the art of agression and willingness to take up smoking?
A new musical is about to hit our stages with great pizzazz and mountains of Tena lady. It is called Hot Flush! A Menopause Musical. What exactly this will entail I have yet to realise yet we can be sure of a night of hot sweats, no sleep and lack of an sexual content. To be honest, on the first night of their tour, The King's Theatre will not know what's hit them.
Not only does this cast insist of a few household names from the past (and probably the first time you will see Marti Webb smiling and cracking a joke) but it will inform, entertain and downright shock anyone under the age of 45. It should be worth a look, even if only to make sure Webb doesn't coin the opening line,
"Take that look off your face....."
mduffy 2007
When trying to think of a show surrounding the not so hilarious change in a woman's life, I am quickly brought back to one side splitting night of recent months where I sat through a night with Jenny Eclair and her sweaty, bristly legged stand up show with equally puffy, yet energetic supporting cast. So if we have had the best that the Menopause can offer an unsuspecting audience, how can we be educated further in the art of agression and willingness to take up smoking?
A new musical is about to hit our stages with great pizzazz and mountains of Tena lady. It is called Hot Flush! A Menopause Musical. What exactly this will entail I have yet to realise yet we can be sure of a night of hot sweats, no sleep and lack of an sexual content. To be honest, on the first night of their tour, The King's Theatre will not know what's hit them.
Not only does this cast insist of a few household names from the past (and probably the first time you will see Marti Webb smiling and cracking a joke) but it will inform, entertain and downright shock anyone under the age of 45. It should be worth a look, even if only to make sure Webb doesn't coin the opening line,
"Take that look off your face....."
mduffy 2007
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