Following on from the success of their pop musical Dreamboats and Petticoats, the comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have once more fashioned a musical to showcase some of the wonderful pop hits of the early 1960s.

The focus this time is on the talents of the song-writing duo of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Not names as famous, say, as Bacharach and David, Leiber and Stoller or, of course, our own Lennon and McCartney, the pair nevertheless penned a number of big hits. They included smashes for Elvis Presley like His Latest Flame and Suspicion.

Though merely a flimsy frame on which to hang a marvellous collection of these songs, the story devised by Marks and Gran is a decent enough one.

We follow Jennifer (Hannah Frederick) and younger sister Marie (Megan Jones) from their home in Luton to a seaside caravan holiday in Lowestoft whose horrors will be familiar to anyone old enough — this is 1963 — to have experienced such a ‘treat’.

There they fall eagerly into the arms of the horny lads from a nearby USAF base, thereby lending the show its necessary American ingredient, plus — thanks to the social club’s handy supply of musicians — a band able to accompany and join in the songs.

Marie’s on-off love for a black soldier Curtis (Jason Denton) lends the necessary dramatic meat to the show. He performs some of the best songs of the night, though Jennifer’s Italian squeeze, local ice cream man Carlo (Graham Weaver), knocked me out with his sensational falsetto on Hushabye.

This was one of a number of songs performed a capella, to brilliant arrangements by Keith Strachan, who co-directs with Bill Kenwright. Another is the inspirational closing Save the Last Dance for Me.

A J Dean’s Milton (above) also sings superbly. His account of the Len Barry hit 1-2-3 (not actually by Pomus and Shuman) was the night’s tear-inducing winner for me.

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