A Slice of Saturday Night

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A Slice of Saturday Night is a pastiche of the Sixties and a tale of teenage dreams, young love and romance it is set around 1964 in nightclub called Club-a-Go-Go.

The teenagers are usually played by people much older, a technique also used in plays such Blood brothers and Daisy pulls it off.

1 History
2 People
3 Songs
- 3.1 Musical Numbers - Act 1
- 3.2 Musical Numbers - Act 2
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

A Slice of Saturday Night was first produced by the Brighton Actors Theatre at the Nightingale, Brighton. It was a smash hit success at the King's Head Theatre, Islington in 1989 and enjoyed a long run with its West End debut at London’s Arts Theatre. Following a successful national tour it returned to the West End at the Strand Theatre in 1993 for a twelve week run^[1].

[edit] People

The Heather Brothers, Lea, Neil and John, were born in London but raised in Zimbabwe where they formed a teenage band. When they returned to England they worked as contract composers for a major record label before going on to write stage musicals. After 'Slice of Saturday Night' they went on to write Big Sin City, Cold Sweat, The Comeback, Gratuitous Sex & Violence (and good ol' Rock 'n Roll), Lust (a musical based on William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy, The Country Wife) and the thriller, Blood Money.