Stone Revellers’ next production in June will be a stage version of the popular TV comedy Hi-de-Hi – and auditions take place this week if you fancy donning a Yellow Coat and heading for Maplins!
The Revellers – who have just performed a sell-out run of Mel Gibson’s The Producers at St Michael’s Hall – are going for comedy again and will stage Hi-de-Hi between Tuesday 12th and Saturday 16th June.
Auditions take place on Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 5th April at St Michael’s Hall between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Email info@stonerevellers.org.uk for audition pieces.
The Revellers are looking for all the famous BBC show characters – Gladys Pugh, Peggy Olerenshaw, Jeffrey Fairbrother, Ted Bovis, Spike Dixon, Yvonne and Barry Hargraves, Mr Partridge, Fred Quilly and numerous Yellow Coats, including Sylvia. Also needed are the characters of Hilary Bovis, a bailiff and Mr Pritchard (a camper).
Here’s a flavour of the stage version of Hi-de-Hi!:
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In the stage adaptation of the hugely popular TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower revisit the 1950s and Maplins Holiday Camp with its host of colourful characters.
It’s the start of a new season and founder Joe Maplin announces that he is setting up a camp in the Bahamas. He needs female Yellow Coats to go and work out there and the annual Miss Yellow Coat competition will decide who is to go. Rivalry between the girls is fierce, with Sylvia and Gladys joint frontrunners to win the coveted yellow sash.
Camp cleaner Peggy, meanwhile, is thrilled at the prospect of a vacancy for a new Yellow Coat and convinces entertainments manager Jeffrey that she is the ideal candidate for the job. Ted is forced to employ numerous money-making schemes when his ex-wife turns up at the camp with a bailiff in tow and Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves send the rumour mill into overdrive when they overhear Gladys escorting Jeffrey into his chalet late one evening.
For more information, call Craig Chesters on 07866 845531, directors Dan Rich on 078248 10109 and Dan Houldey on 07540 134206 or producer Nichola Abbott on 07866 101998.
