High schools offer howling good fun with 1950s musical

Info:
What: Wolfstock
Who: Hastings Girls' High School & Lindisfarne College
Where: Lowe Family Performing Arts Centre, Lindisfarne College
When: 7.30pm Monday-Thursday, June 27-30
Tickets: $10 & $5 (students). Available from both school offices. Hastings GHS: Phone 873 1133. Lindisfarne College: Phone 873 1136
 
Students from Hastings Girls' High School and Lindisfarne College are busily preparing for their joint production of the rock'n'roll musical Wolfstock by Mary McMahon and Donald Woodward.
Direction will be from well-known and respected local theatre identity Alan Powdrell, with music director Chris Atkinson, who appeared in the highly successful productions of 42nd Street and Miss Saigon.
Set in the late 1950s, Wolfstock will transport the audience back to a time when the world recognised one king only - the legend himself, Elvis.
In this era of change, 16-year-old Jay finds his safe and extra-ordinary ordinary life is to be transformed dramatically.
Shock. Horror! Is it possible that he could be changing into a creature of the night? Madam Berzurka from Bavaria knows the answer, so does the wild and eccentric owner of a travelling circus.
Jay's parents don't have the imagination to believe it could happen and his friends think it's a groovy improvement. All of them rock along to the beat of the 1950s as the tale unfolds.
"Get out the leather jackets, bobby sox and swingy skirts; brush up the pony tails and the DA's and you're ready for the exciting world of milk bars, juke boxes and real motor bikes," says Lindisfarne College director of music John Snowling.
"Wolfstock is lots of fun."