‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, proclaims a massive neon sign above the Merrigong theatre’s stage. Eight scarcely dressed dancers sit astride their chairs, provocatively beguiling audience members as they file into the room. “Come have a dance with me, I’ll show you a good time,” calls one woman, pursing her breasts together and stroking her chair. We are in the seedy Fandango Ballroom of downtown New York – negligées, knee-high boots and sexual innuendo aplenty.
SWEET CHARITY (Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Coleman) completed the final days of an extensive tour on Saturday at Wollongong’s Merrigong Theatre, following a stint of shows at the Sydney Opera House. This is a remounting of the groundbreaking, award winning production that was such a success when it premiered at Darlinghurst’s Hayes Theatre.
