The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick has a habit of producing musicals that punch well above their weight. With a 2023 Standing Ovation Award for Best Director and a Pub Theatre of the Year title to its name, Take Note Theatre knows exactly what it is doing — and its latest production is no exception.
Who Put the Bomp? is a new musical by Keith Strachan, who co-wrote Cliff Richard’s 1988 number one Mistletoe and Wine and created the West End hits Dreamboats and Petticoats and Dancing in the Streets. The show follows a group of London teenagers who discover the music their grandparents loved and find, in the golden age of Doo Wop and early rock ’n’ roll, something that speaks directly to their own lives.
Already nominated for five Fringe Theatre Awards and described as “a night of pure distilled joy” by London Pub Theatres, it is the kind of story that sounds simple but rarely is.
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