Child #1: I don't need girls anyway.
Child #2: Look mate, YOU saying you don't need girls is like someone who's never eaten a chocholate biscuit, saying they don't need a chocolate biscuit.
- that's gonna win the pulitzer for sure.-
Allow me to elaborate:
Boy and friends are buying Condoms (Boy just turned 16)
Girl and friends are also buying Condoms (she has to be prepared for Boy's birthday night, as he's now legal)
Boy is from a lower-class Irish family, his father was a hoodlum. Now dead (though appears in nearly every scene as a Hot Pappa Trenchcoat wearing Ghost)
Girl is about to take her exams and head off to university to become a lawyer.
To impress Girl, Boy sneaks onto a contruction site so's the both of them can look out over the town and spy the street that was named after a relative of his. (Casey Street)
Oh yeah, the whole thing takes place in Camden Town.
The cops storm the building site and... magic happens. No really, this was the best bit in the show, the boy split into two boys just as the cop... excuse me, the 'Bobby' grabbed him. Clone #1 gets caught. clone #2 gets away.
The rest of the show is two plays, offsetting each other scene by scen.
Clone #1 wears all white, and lives in a white world. He goes onto a life of petty crime (just like pop), until he reforms himself, get's the girl back and then saves his mum's life and Casey Street from the Evil Developer.
Clone #2 Wears black and lives in a black and red world. He does a few more minor crimes, does not get caught, uses his ill gotten gains to go straight, where he becomes a hot shit property developer, marries the girl, and then he tries to make a deal that involves some unsavory elements and end's up getting his mum killed in a house fire.
There's a scene in a Vegas/Venice gondola that's a steal from Phantom. There's a 'Boy just bought a cheap car' number taken directly from Grease, arm choreography and all....
...now imagine that the whole thing is set to Music. (OK, not too hard I know)... but, now ok, imagine that this is the Glorious 2Tone pop of 80's hit singles band
Madness
And you are left with a truly hokey, yet full of guilty pleaseures, piece of shi... I mean
Art
Yes friends, it's
Our House The Madness Musical.
Thank heavens for 1/2 price tickets.
In other news, My Lonely Planet tells me that internet cafe's are rare in Finland, so who know's if I'll make it to one (Can't say I won't try, silly techno-lust addiction and all)... but my phone seems to be working just fine, so I'll remind any stragglers about the novelty of local (from Seattle) calls to europe for those who have my cel phone digits.
Otherwise, a happy new years to all!
Sven Xavier
