DIRECTED BY DEAN BURNELL

MUSIC DIRECTED BY STEPHEN WHITELEY

PRODUCED BY MORT BUTLER

SEPT 27 - 30 and OCT 4 - 7

Hyde Park Opera House

Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who loved to sing.  They all met in high school in the 1950s, when they joined the audiovisual club.  Discovering they shared an affection for music and entertaining, they got together and dreamed of becoming like their idols - The Four Aces, The Four Lads, The Four Freshman, The Hi-Los and The Crew Cuts.  They rehearsed in the basement of Smudge’s family’s plumbing supply company.  It was here they became Forever Plaid.  As their sound developed, they sang at family gatherings, fund-raisers, and eventually graduated to supermarket openings and proms.  They had little time for romance or leisure for they supported their fantasy by holding down day jobs - Frankie was in dental supplies, Smudge was in bathroom fixtures, and Sparky was in better dresses.  They devoted themselves to singing at nights and on weekends.  Then, finally, they landed their first big gig at the Airport Hilton cocktail bar:  The Fusel Lounge.

En route to pick up their custom-made plaid tuxedos, they were slammed broadside by a school bus filled with eager Catholic teens.  The teens were on their way to witness the Beatles make their US television debut on the Ed Sullivan Show and miraculously escaped uninjured.  The members of Forever Plaid were killed instantly.  It is at that moment, when their careers and lives ended, that the story of FOREVER PLAID begins.

Through the Power of Harmony and the Expanding Holes in the Ozone Layer, in conjunction with the positions of the planets and all the astrotechnical stuff, they are allowed to come back to perform the show they never got to do in life.

...we told you it was “deliciously goofy”.  A charming musical revue, featuring some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the 1950s, including “Shangri-La”, “Rags to Riches”, “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, “Moments to Remember,” “No Not Much”, “Perfidia”, and “Three Coins in the Fountain.”

CAST LIST

JINX:  Bill Bickford

FRANKY:  Tim Mason-Osann
SPARKY:  Chris Sheltra
SMUDGE:  Matt Pierce