I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (written by Kenneth Gamble & Jerry Ross)Īin't No Mountain High Enough (written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson) Mama Said (written by Luther Dixon & Willie Denson)Īnyone Who Had A Heart (written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David) Where Did Our Love Go (written by Holland-Dozier-Holland) I Hear a Symphony (Holland-Dozier-Holland)Īnd Then He Kissed Me (written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry) There's No Other Like My Baby (written by Phil Spector & Leroy Bates) The question is not 'Why?' but 'Why not!'Īlmost to a person in an almost full-house, the Surrey Arts Centre audience gave a rousing & robust & lengthy standing-o at last night's performance. But as much fun and purpose in Bittergirl as in a re-mount of West Side Story or Mama Mia! or ACT's incomparable Black & Gold Revue that rocked Vancouver some 30 summers back. Some complain the script is too 'untimely' in an age when women's breakthroughs of ceilings high- &-low are demanded. With all the laugh lines from songs and times we Boomers cherish. Lyrical stuff that manages to draw out a few tears of sentiment along She-who-can-do-no-wrong-in-my-mind Valerie Easton. Playwrights is purely incidental at the hands of Whatever relationship it had with the real lives of the This is life in the time of Archie and Edith Bunker writ large The lyrics of those long-ago achy-breaky songs brought to Who gonna like : Full-immersion girl-group It was if they needed a wee bit of Blood, Sweat & Tears interpolation to jazz them up a bit. Their style was a bit too prosaic to this ear. 'magic' - all the frantic spinnery of the three as stitched together by Director /Ĭhoreographer Easton was really quite priceless.Ī wee quibble about the band : while obviously capable and competent,

Proposal evening' the short-term hot-to-trot gal whose lover lost his Grad school husband the long-term live-in who was jilted her on 'marriage Three women's experiences - the abandoned married mom who supported her Three women atop their Ron Zalko fitness shorts. Tight, tight, tight! harmonies among the three all night long. Life and provide a kind of storyline to the lyrics of the tunes they sing. Trio, spoken lines in unison, a stream of musical moments that bring to Just a sequence of songs (see Addendum) that the women sing in Production values that shine through : There is no narrative or dramatic arc

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