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A NIGHT AT THE GAUMONT
Opus 8
Forest Arts Centre
New Milton
June 2005

HOW on earth this first-class cabaret group come up with such original ideas for their revues I simply cannot imagine. And if you think that this title doesn’t sound particularly innovative then you have obviously never experienced the quirky, hysteria-inducing world of Opus 8’s alter egos, The Monotones.
The excellent Helen Barrington, Glinys Luff, Paul Barrington & Bryan Newman, together with their superb accompanist, John Aveyard, take their audience on a journey through classic films. But nothing is quite what it seems, and once you’ve seen this show you will never again view certain films in the same light.
Whether it’s the ageing queens in My Fair Larry, an enormous Poirot in Murder on the Cleethorpes Express, a middle-aged Annie and Baby June in Whatever Happened to Baby June or those nuns in The Resound of Music, the characters will make you laugh till you cry.
Oh, and then there’s Cockpits at Dawn (wartime memories with a difference), Gone! With The Wind, The Flask of Torro (eat your hearts out, Catherine & Antonio), Fame and Grease 5, not to mention a ‘music quiz’.
And, as always, the costumes and sets are just sublime.
A Night At The Gaumont plays Highcliffe Castle on Sunday. Call 01425 628139 for ticket availability.

Linda Kirkman
Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo


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