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  • Dreamboats and Petticoats at The Gaiety: Review

    Dreamboats-and-PetticoatsThe mood was building in The Gaiety before the curtain was raised thanks to the sounds of early sixties music. With a musical that was born from a musical compilation series, Dreamboats and Petticoats immediately had the audience on its side, thanks to the familiarity of the tunes.

    Within moments of the cast coming on stage, the energy and talent that oozed from the stage was nothing short of brilliant.

    Telling the story of Bobby’s (David Ribi) quest to get the band and the girl over his competitor Norman (Ben James-Ellis), Dreamboats and Petticoats shows us a slightly more innocent time The story-line and songs performed, all live on stage by the actors, intertwine seamlessly and the clever set design truly places you in early sixties. A screen with early sixties adverts is raised and lowered to reveal a full band. I never thought I’d see dodgems (or good ole bumping cars like we called them) on stage at The Gaiety.

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  • Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 6 Playlist and Podcast : 31/08/2011

    Culture Cafe 6Thanks to all my guest for today’s show. As well as the interviews, the podcast now features Kev’s Event Guide.

    Here’s what happened:

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads

    2. Bombay Bicycle Club: Shuffle

    3. Chat with Paula Hanely from Cork County Arts Office about Culture Night.

    4. Alarmist: Vitamin Saturday

    5. Chat with David Ribi who plays Bobby in Dreamboats and Petticoats currently running in The Gaiety.

    6. My Morning Jacket: True Love Ways

    7. Super Heavy: Miracle Worker

    8. Chat with Shane Byrne about his play Twenty Ten in the Project Arts as part of Dublin Fringe Festival.

    10. Royseven: You Say, We Say (Recommended Free Legal Download available from Facebook.com/RoysevenOffical)

    11. The Event Guide with Kevin McCabe

    12. Chat with Caroline Duke from Spirit of Folk Festival.

    13. Arrow in The Sky: Promises

    14. Chat with Toby Kaar

    15. Toby Kaar: Bread

    I’m also going to have the full interview with Toby Kaar available as a podcast.

    Don’t forget Culture Cafe is broadcast on RTE 2XM on Wednesdays at 1000 and repeated on Sundays at 2100. You can listen online on digital radio and on UPC Channel 944.

    Thanks for listening!

  • Dreamboats and Petticoats at The Gaiety

    Dreamboats and PetticoatsI am really looking forward to this, Dreamboats and Petticoats, The Musical is on tour across the UK and Ireland this Autumn stopping off at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre from August 10th to September 10th.

    This musical was seemingly born from a series of compilation albums which topped the charts, featuring the songs of Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, The Shadows and Eddie Cochran.

    It follows the story of two budding musicians trying to win a national song competition and was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the team behind Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, The New Statesmen and Shine On Harvey Moon so you know there is going to be quality writing in there. It’s directed by Bob Tomson and musical supervision is by Keith Strachan. (more…)