"Beehive" a buzz at Whidbey Playhouse
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September 20, 2017
MAKING THEIR OWN KIND OF MUSIC – Because it’s their party, singing and dancing are Liv Sundown, Erin Pitts, Adara Peterson (front row) with Germaine Kornegay, Sarah Gallagher and Amy Malmaker backing them up. They are ready for early 1960s girl band singing and dancing. – Photo courtesy of Whidbey Playhouse
Clever directors offer a route through a play’s story. At the Whidbey Playhouse’s “Beehive, the 60s Musical” Thursday, Stan Thomas, their board president, followed directors Eric George and Allenda Jenkins’ instructions, dropping crumbs on the stage floor before the lights dimmed.
Using the metaphor of audio technology, he walked a timeline from iPods back to LPs. When the lights came on the six-member cast started this musical revue doing the twist. Over the next two hours they sang their way through the 1960s. Their 28 songs were broken into four periods: girl groups, the “actual” 1960s ushe...
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