The Background:
The 2007 tour marks the latest chapter in Girls Night’smeteoric rise from an idea in a Milton Keynes’ mom’s kitchen, through a community production, medium scale tour and culminating in 2006 in an extensive National Tour of Number One touring venues when the show starred Lucy Speed (EastEnders) and Gwyneth Strong (Only Fools and Horses). Two of the nations favorite actresses take up the reins for this 2007 tour.
The story behind Girls Nightis an inspiration to any writer still waiting for their big break. One night, four years ago, Louise Roche, a mother of three children under five, went out with a group of friends to see a Shane Richie musical. She looked around the theatre, saw that the audience was mostly women and thought “I could do this…I could write a show that lots of women will enjoy watching.” So she did. She went home and wrote her first play, Girls Night,a musical comedy about a group of friends who relive the past on a wild night out at a karaoke club!
She put it on with some of her friends at the local community theatre. Five old friends from school did the acting. She got a woman that she met at her daughter’s playgroup to design the posters and the set. Her mom did the costumes and she dressed the auditorium up like a nightclub herself. It sold out its entire run and gained legendary status in the area. One audience member claimed that it made her laugh so hard that her Tampax fell out!
Bolstered by this success, she hired the much bigger Milton Keynes Theatre to mount a one-off spectacular performance of Girls Night. Not one to do things by halves, our heroic housewife put her money where her mouth was and ploughed her life savings of £10,000.00 into the show. Every one of the fourteen hundred seats in the building sold and she made back just over £10,000.00.
Since then, Girls Nighthas gone from success to success. It has been two phenomenally successful national tours since 2003, achieving an average capacity of 70% and receiving rave reviews from audience members and critics alike.
Girls Night Brief Description:
See the show audiences can’t get enough of!?Share the fun & laughter at this hilarious, feel-good comedy as five girlfriends go from heartbreak to happiness during a wild night of karaoke. You don’t need an excuse for a good time…so grab your sisters, friends and coworkers and prepare to dance in the aisles! Lady Marmalade, It’s Raining Men, Man, I Feel Like a Woman, I Will Survive and many more!