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Dir: Bill Deamer (choreographer).
Cast: Su Pollard, Claire Sweeney
Description: Su Pollard stars in a musical revue show following the lives and loves of three young girls in London during the 1960s. Choreographed by Bill Deamer.
Trains: Tube: Covent Garden 
Phone: 0845017 5584
Website: www.artstheatrewestend.com
Extra info: Pub
You can almost follow the producers’ recession-era train of thought. Blend 30-odd easy-access tunes from the Sixties, add in a sliver of storyline about three young women from the north moving downtown (I sense a song coming on) to London and top with Su Pollard saying “Flipping heck”. How could this not be a world-beating musical? Let me count the ways.
It’s unclear who, if anyone, actually wrote Shout! A book adaptor is mentioned, and someone apparently had a concept but what it boils down to is Betty, Georgina and Ruby ageing not one day throughout the entire World-Cup-winning, man-on-the-moon decade and suffering no personal problem that can’t be sorted out via two lines of dialogue with Auntie Su.
Eventually the trio don combat fatigues, turn counter-revolutionary and move to Cuba. Or maybe I made that last bit up.
The choreography looks like something my goddaughter cooks up with her friends on a Saturday afternoon, and the amplification in Bill Deamer’s production means you could probably hear the entire thing by standing in Leicester Square. Pollard is loud and the others are game but with this sort of material there aren’t a whole lot of options.
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