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Go-Go Beach (Musical)
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Beach Party film
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, such as those starring Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello
Annette Joanne Funicello is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films.-Early life and early stardom:...
and Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon
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. The show has book and lyrics by John Wimbs and music by Michael Shaieb and Brent Lord. The musical consists of an original plot and original pop score of 18 songs inspired by 1960s surf rock, girl groups, go-go, and flower power
Flower power
Flower power is a slogan used by the American counterculture movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in...
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The story follows a group of carefree teens during the last two days of the summer of 1966. Their leader, a surfer named Woody, gets into trouble with his girlfriend when he falls for a runaway pop star, and his flower-child pal Bulldog helps him find the true meaning of love. Other characters include Baby (a kooky naive innocent), Rip (an affable, dim-witted hunk), Fingers (the schemer and bad boy who falls in love with Kitten), Einstein (a science geek who is madly in love with JJ), Honey (a bookish wallflower), JJ (Woody's girlfriend, a prize winning beauty), and Kitten (the lead dancer role; sexy, self-confident, and bursting with unspent energy; madly in love with Fingers)
The first public performance was a developmental reading at the 42nd Street Studios in New York City on June 21 and 22, 2001. See playbill.com
On May 21, 2006 the New York Musical Theatre Festival
New York Musical Theatre Festival
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is an annual three-week fall Festival which presents more than thirty new musicals at venues in New York City's midtown theater district...
(NYMF) announced "Go-Go Beach" was among the 18 musicals selected out of 400+ applicants for the 2006 Next Link component of the festival. It played six festival performances at 37 Arts from September 14, 2006 to September 23, 2006.
"Go-Go Beach" was among 23 musicals offered in the 2006 debut catalog of New York-based licensing agent Theatrical Rights Worldwide, who represents exclusive stage performing rights for the musical.
On June 21, 2008, the first full day of summer, the authors were in attendance for the 100th lifetime performance of "Go-Go Beach," which occurred during a three-week run produced by Cincinnati Landmark Productions
Cincinnati Landmark Productions
Cincinnati Landmark Productions is a theatre company in Cincinnati, OH. It is the parent organization for the Showboat Majestic, the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, and Cincinnati Young People's Theatre....
on the historic Showboat Majestic
Majestic (riverboat)
The Majestic is a historic riverboat in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 20, 1989.The last of the original travelling showboats, she was built in 1920 and plied the Ohio River for many years offering shows at towns along the way...
in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
As of December 2008, Go-Go Beach has had 17 productions, totaling 107 performances in 4 countries and 12 American states.
The first theater group in the uk to perform this were the ragamuffins in aberdeen, scotland!
Plot
The musical takes place on Go-Go Beach, a fictional hangout for teens in 1960s southern California. Teen sensation Mindy Chinchilla sneaks away from her movie set to hang out with the gang, and their old pal Bulldog returns from spending a few months in San Francisco. Woody's simple life as the Surfin' King is suddenly made much more complicated.Songs
- Prologue (Instrumental)
- Go-Go Beach (The Gang - Woody, J.J., Fingers, Einstein, Rip, Kitten, Honey, Baby)
- Duke Kahanamoku's Roadsters And Jalopies (Woody and the Gang)
- His Smile Told Me So (J.J. and the girls)
- In San Francisco (Bulldog and the Gang)
- A Boy And A Girl (Woody, J.J.)
- Girls in Bikinis (Sammy Leech, Bulldog, and the Boys)
- A Boy Like You (Mindy Chinchilla)
- The Formula For Love (Einstein, J.J.)
- Go-Go Mania (Instrumental)
- A Day Like Today (Mindy, Woody, and the Gang - Kitten, Honey, Baby, Fingers, Rip)
- Don't Look The Other Way (Bulldog)
- Surfin' Race - In The Wave (J.J., the Girls, Woody, Mindy, Bulldog)
- The Love That Cannot Be (Mindy, Backup Girls)
- It's All About Love (Bulldog, Woody, Honey, Einstein, and the Gang - Kitten, Baby, Rip)