Jackie launched in January 1964, attracting millions of fans as it became a best-selling teenage title for 10 years. Jackie The Musical revisits those heady days, and tells the story of a fifty-something divorcée who revisits her stash of well-thumbed Jackie magazines for the same reason she first read them nearly forty years ago: advice on how best to navigate the opposite sex. Funny and feisty, with a soundtrack featuring the era's most beloved and memorable hits, the show promises a whirlwind tour of Planet Seventies.
A range of fixtures from Hawthorn's stock is accompanying the tour as thousands of women revisit fond childhood memories. This kit includes: ETC Ion, MAC TW1, MAC Viper Performance, Clay Paky Sharpy, Source Four LED Lustr 2, Chroma-Q Colour Force 72, CO2 Pea Souper and two 24" Large Facet Mirror Balls.
Philip Gladwell, said, "It's great to work with Hawthorn again, they have been really accommodating to our team who visited their warehouse to get everything ready for the tour. Having worked with them before I know that the service we'll receive will be outstanding - and the addition of two rather large mirror balls this time will certainly help bring the '70s back to life on stage."
Jackie The Musical opened at the Gardyne Theatre in Dundee in March, it now heads to Coventry, Bromley, Bradford, Brighton, Edinburgh, Blackpool, Perth, Wycombe, Manchester, Birmingham, Stoke, Wimbledon, Dartford, Malvern, Liverpool, Sunderland, Inverness, Aberdeen and Glasgow. It is on tour from until the end of July.
(Jim Evans)
