Thursday, October 23, 1997 |
Thursday, October 23, 1997 |
ROCK 'n ROLL: The cast of 60 Something Wild get ready to rock at the Guild Theatre next week Magical musicals FANS OF good music and lovers of a good time can look forward to two excellent shows coming to East London's Guild Theatre next week. Mike McCullagh is bringing two of his Grahamstown Festival hits for four performances in all -- three of which are for local charities. Beatlemania -- which can be seen on Wednesday, October 29 in aid of Child Welfare and again on Friday, October 31 at 21h00 -- has proved a sell-out at the festival and in its seasons in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. With songs such as Twist and Shout, Hard Day's Night and Yesterday, this show should bring back fond memories of the Fab Four. In addition to Beatlemania, there will be two performances of 60 Something Wild -- in aid of Famsa on October 30 and Child Welfare on October 31. 60 Something Wild makes its way through the decade performing songs by Simon & Garfunkel, Wilson Pickett, Petula Clark, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies and many others. The musicians in both shows comprise of Mike McCullagh on drums, Duck Chowles, Dennis Baker and Tiffany Griffin on vocals, Andy Murray and Joe van der Linden on guitars, Petra Badenhorst on keyboards and Helena Fagin on wind instruments. Pity the poor politicians
ON THE TRAIL: David Suchet plays the famous fictional Belgian detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot -- SABC 3 at 19h00 ARE South Africans losing interest in politics? You bet they are, and in a few other things as well -- like crime, corruption and general mismanagement. If you haven't lost interest completely you may overcome your apathy enough to tune into Two Way (SABC 1 20h30) where Caesar Molebatsi will do his best to generate a bit of heat and light on the topic. The biggest turn-off will be that the panel is comprised solely of politicians -- Valli Moosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (UDM), Paul Mattes (Idasa), Daryl Swanepoel (NP) and Douglas Gibson (DP) -- and I venture to guess that not one of them will state their case concisely, wittily and/or directly. For after all there is one startling reason why people are losing interest in politics: politicians. The Egoli roadshow found itself in East London last Saturday night and a few thousand people enjoyed seeing the local soap opera stars in the flesh -- despite the fact that they didn't do much except parade up and down the well-lit stage. Now Egoli has ventured into Holland's Rotterdam where they form part of a museum dedicated to soap operas. Front Row investigates (M-Net 20h15). Another startling item on tonight's programme is a rather unusual competition -- win a Christmas winter holiday in Lapland. All contenders should start knitting woolly long johns now. There is fierce debate about which Rowan Atkinson creation is the funnier -- Mr Bean or Blackadder. Tonight the fiendish Edmund finds himself in a bit of bother with a vicar and a red hot poker (SABC 3 22h45). Ines Watson |
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