Winner Takes it All

“Winner Takes It All “was a revue featuring music from the 70s which was essentially the music of Abba and was written and directed by Sam Moores who also played Monica Clements a diva with attitude. The story was set in a workingmen’s club during the 1970s and follows the exploits of the customers on one particular night. The customers included a group of women celebrating a hen night out and another group on a night out from work. The story follows the drama that ensues when the bride from the hen night whose fiancé had been married before meets his ex-wife who is with her friends from work. The cast was quite large so it would be difficult to mention everyone but having said that I feel I must give a mention to Keith Marsh who played the compere, he was very funny and  had very good comic timing reminding me very much of a TV program of the era called  “ The Wheeltappers and Shunters Club”. All the cast appeared to be enjoying themselves very much working together as a team  with lots of energy and enthusiasm which filtered out into the audience who were clapping , cheering and singing along to the music. It appeared that most of the cast sang solo at some point in the performance with varying vocal abilities and there was an occasional tuning problem but this did not detract at all from everybody's enjoyment. There was also quite a lot of entertaining dancing in this production from “The Ferretettes” with choreography by Bryan Dargie Lynch and Nicola Lyon .The band named “The Chipolatas” was led by the Musical Director and keyboard player Wayne Oaks and was excellent supporting the cast very well even sounding very much like Abba at times. The set was also excellent and looked effective giving a good platform for the cast to work on, sound and lighting were good and costumes were  colourful and fitted the era well, it was obvious some thought had gone into getting  them right. The audience enjoyed themselves throughout the performance and in the finale of the show they got up and danced to the music joining in with the cast.

Congratulations to Sam Moores who also has a good singing voice for an enjoyable evening’s entertainment and well done to all involved in this production including front of house.Thank you for inviting my husband and me and making us welcome I hope to see you for your next production.
 

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