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Save the Last Dance for Me
Marina Theatre, Lowestoft Review published in the Eastern Daily Press, 5 July 2012. Fresh from the creators of the top-rated Dreamboats and Petticoats, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, comes a musical concoction set in the early 1960s. It is appropriate that it should come to Lowestoft en route to the West End, as much of it is set in the town of that time. Memories flood back. The plot is simple – black US airman and white English girl fall in love when she and her sister take a week’s seaside holiday against their parents’ wishes. But music brings it to youthful life. Reliving the hit songs of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, the on-stage band pump out classics like This Magic Moment, Sweets for My Sweet, A Teenager in Love, Suspicion, Viva Las Vegas, … Read entire article »
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