Ovation's Summer In The City
Jennifer Selway
Genre: Jukebox
Cast size: 6
Duration: 1hr 50m approx
Jennifer Selway | Musical | Jukebox | Full Length | 2m, 4f
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Winner of ‘Best Musical Production’ at the 2023 London Pub Theatre Awards.
Summer in the City is set in a Carnaby Street Coffee Bar and follows the lives of the Coffee Bar owner, her singing waiter and four of her groovy customers. The waiter is American, a former G.I., who is looking for a new career as a pop music manager. His boss, Hetty is a ‘Jewish Mama’ who takes everyone under her wing.
Enter Joanna, a Junior Reporter on the Evening Standard, Vera – one of the first female Traffic Wardens and Cassie – an ambitious designer whose father arrived in the UK on The Windrush. It turns out that all three girls can sing and are set to become an ‘all girl pop group’ by the end of the decade. Into their lives comes Liverpudlian Bobby, friend of the Beatles, guitarist and would-be song writer.
Chart failures, love affairs and memories are thrown into the mix before the girls eventually hit the top of the charts in 1967 – the Summer of Love.
The show features 22 songs from the sixties, a big forties song (for Hetty) and one original song ‘written by ‘Bobby’ which is The Vixens number one smash hit (arrangement and music supplied as part of the script).
Songs include…Downtown, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, The Shoop Shoop Song, Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey, Because, The First Cut Is The Deepest, I’m a Believer, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, Land of 1000 Dances
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