Date for the diary - December 15 @ Enfield Town FC

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STA ND AND DELIVER! December 15 - 8pm in the bar at Enfield Town FC

 

COMEDY MUSICALSET FOR WEST END WARMS UP WITH CHARITY SHOW AT ETFC

80s music - Non-league football and a time-travelling highwayman...

 

“This is fab…I laughed out loud.” Maggie De Monde (Scarlet Fantastic)

 

“…a masterpiece!” Mark Nevin (Fairground Attraction)

 

Following a successful suburban workshop production in the summer which left some members of the audience in tears of laughter, STAND AND DELIVER! is funnier, livelier, slimmer, fitter and non-surgically enhanced as it prepares to make its London debut at the King’s Head Theatre, 20 – 29 December 2012. But, on the way, we stop off for a special charity preview event at Enfield TRown Football Club.

 

STAND AND DELIVER! is a comedy musical like no other. Spawned from Naughty Sport, an outrageous, award-winning football fanzine from the late 1980s, we follow an ordinary bloke, Frank Goldenboy, on a time travelling romp to 1731 where he seeks to realise his ambition of becoming a highwayman in an over-zealous attempt to safeguard the future of his beloved local football club.

 

This off-beat production represents a first foray into the world of musical theatre for writer Wayne Gumble who also produces the show. The script is fresh, innovative and manages to break most of the “rules” of theatre. However, like a lovable rogue, you quickly grow very fond of this maverick approach and wonder why these rules were ever made.

 

Stand and Deliver! can best be described as a comedy excursion harking back to the halcyon days of Carry On movies, Camberwick Green, Dick Emery and Mr Benn. The audience are accompanied on the journey by Frank’s children, Paris and Antwerp, and meet Nell Cleavidge, a lady never short of innuendo, Clive Urinal, the referee with a secret life, and Boscombe Chart, theformer Enfield FC defender and now an inspirational coach at AC Milan. Television presenters Mmbop Hansen and Ulrika Pearce are your guides as you are skilfully steered through a melange of time-travelling tomfoolery in an ever-changing vehicle that ranges from panto to Python.

 

Your constant travel-companions will be classic pop hits from the 1980s. Musical memories from Tears For Fears, Adam and the Ants, Cher, Fairground Attraction, Go West, Madness and Bon Jovi are energetically performed by Psychedelic Rock Trio, “Cousin Dim”. Hit after hit is intermingled with the iconic humour and chants from the football terraces to provide a contrasting set of vocal experiences.

 

The cast is headed up by Nigel Barker and Kara Lily Hayworth who play Frank Goldenboy and his daughter, Paris, respectively. Nigel has spent much of 2012 playing the role of 'Ken', Bodyguard to Princess Diana, in ‘War of the Waleses’. Kara made her West End debut earlier this year playing the title character in ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ at The Arts Theatre.

 

Tickets to this one-off show are available from the ETFC bar on Saturday or can be purchased online from the show's website http://www.standanddelivermusical.com/ priced at £5 for a standard ticket or £7.50 for a "Feelgood Ticket."

 

LImited to 100 seats.