Bringing Back Bacharach

Will ‘Girl’ ever get to San José? Will ‘Other Girl’ ever go back to Tulsa? Will ‘Boy’ ever fall in love again? Follow our lovelorn characters as they negotiate the rollercoaster ride of emotions unleashed by no less than 31 of Bacharach’s classic golden hits, cleverly strung together to create a perfect retro soapie that will have you laughing, dancing and singing along at the top of your voice.

Form and Style 

Essentially, Bringing Back Bacharach is presented as a fun, non-stop music concert of famous easy-listening 60s music. There are eight musicians on stage. Along the front of the stage are three main vocalists plus a trumpet player, who are our ‘characters’. The rest of the band (piano keyboard, electric bass, drums and guitar) stand behind and provide the accompaniment but also contribute to the plot in energy, presence and sometimes as character foils. The premise of the show is that Bacharach wrote so many hits that there will no time for talking about the songs in the show, therefore, the characters use storyboards to tell the audience about the songs. In this way the music can progress without breaks. There is approximately one board per song and many laughs are generated by the boards and by the reactions the characters and audience have to the boards. In this way, a storyline is created. All band members wear 1960s formal wear and the three singers have a costume change in between sets.

The full show is two one-hour sets. There are three other possible show formats: a Christmas version, a one-hour version, and a 90-minute version. It is idea for the room to be set in Cabaret Half Round Table style.

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