Showstoppers - Saturday, 20th June 2015
An encyclopedic knowledge of musicals seems an essential pre-requisite for members of the Showstoppers’ troupe, and boy, did they have that in spades! Using audience suggestions for the story and the genre, led by an on-stage director, and accompanied by an amazing chap on the keyboard, three gals and two guys, sang, danced and joked their way through a completely original and often utterly hilarious musical, to the delight of the Devizes Festival audience on Saturday evening.
Set at Stonehenge and called “Leaving Pembrokeshire” - archaeological cognoscenti joke, btw, - this performance rambled through Wales and Wiltshire via Caen Hill Locks, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Gershwin, Cabaret, Singing in the Rain right through to a Jailhouse Rock finale.
The cast are an incredibly talented bunch who slipped from musical style to style with ease and expertise, and who had clearly done their homework about the Devizes area. We were all laughing from the off, and that was sustained right through to the glorious end. Thanks, Showstoppers; at the risk of sounding cliched, you really stopped the show.
Judy Rose
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