The Ocean City Theatre Company gives a nostalgic nod to London’s swinging sixties on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 10 and 11) with “SHOUT! The Mod Musical.”
Shows are 7:30 p.m. each night on the Ocean City Music Pier (between Eighth and Ninth streets on the Ocean City Boardwalk). Tickets are $20 (or $18 for senior citizens and children age 12 and under). Call 609-525-9300 or visit the online box office.
Since the original production debuted off-Broadway, this hip musical comedy revue has sold out all over the U.S. and U.K .and promises to get audiences movin’ and groovin’ into the fall.
“We are thrilled to extend our professional Broadway Series into the fall,” said Michael Hartman, artistic director of the Ocean City Theatre Company. “I am confident that we have assembled the best of the best talent to takes us back in time and I hope audiences support us as we take the risk to extend programming into the shoulder season.”
The musical follows five young female subscribers to a fictional magazine called “Shout!” — “The magazine for the modern woman” — as they come of age during the liberating 1960s that made England swing. From cover to cover, “Shout!” unfolds like a musical magazine and travels in time through the decade.
“Shout!” contains show stopping new arrangements of classic pop anthems of the decade, including, “These Boots are Made for Walkin’ ,” “Downtown,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Goldfinger,” “I Only Wanna Be With You,” “To Sir With Love,” and, of course, “Shout!” The songs, and each girl’s own unfolding story, are tied together by hilarious sound bites from the period —- from ’60s advertisements for anything and everything — to lonely hearts letters answered by “Shout!” Magazine’s advice columnist, who thinks each girl’s problem can be solved with a “fetching new hairstyle and a new shade of lipstick.”
