THE REEL THING


The movies make us laugh and cry and in The Reel Thing you can expect to hear the songs that keep their memories alive long after the last flicker of light on the big screen has died. The Reel Thing will transport you back to that special time when you saw that special movie with that special someone. Disney, Dirty Dancing, Fame, Chaplin, Working Girls and Coyote Ugly will all be there. It's so reel - you can smell the popcorn!

Your hosts for the evening are Helen Desbois or Vicky Friedman and Eve Meyer, young, vibey and accomplished performers directed by Charlotte Butler. Helen's CD single, Anything was nominated for a South African Music Award, Best Pop Single in 2001. She appeared in the television series Honeytown and Daisy Demelker, in Janice Honeyman's A Ladd and his Lamp and Ben Elton's Popcorn. Helen is the sexy blonde who entered the Big Brother House as part of a charity drive on 23 June 2002.

Sultry brunette Eve has a National Diploma in musical theatre specialising in singing, ballet, tap and jazz. She appeared in the production Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Richard Loring's highly successful The Best of Girl Talk. She joined up with Paul Buckby in Paul Buckby and the Babettes. Eve performed with the band The Worx in Mozambique.
Exotic looking Vicky Friedman, studied Musical Theatre at the Pretoria Technikon where she performed in Cabaret, Candide and as the lead in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Her professional highlights include Pinocchio for the People's Theatre, Cinders and Her Fella for Janice Honeyman, The Best of Girl Talk for Richard Loring and Annie at the Civic Theatre.

The song list from the show includes If You Could Read my Mind, Mustang Sally, Take a Look at me Now, Shoop Shoop Song, a James Bond Medley with For Your Eyes Only and Goldfinger, a Dirty Dancing Medley with Time of My Life and Be My Baby. Other hits include I say a Little Prayer, I will survive, It's Raining Men and many more. Clients can either book the whole show or select their preferences.