Post #406097 by ikitnrev on Fri, Sep 5, 2008 7:16 AM

Here are some excerpts form an article about the show. I am impressed that the live band will perform while wearing fluorescent skeleton suits.

*It's a cross between Star Wars and The Muppet Show, incorporates Polynesian kitsch and provokes an "oh my god, they can't say that stuff" response from its audience, according to its producer. Welcome Risky Lunar Love to the musical stage.

"It's very hard to simply define," says producer Oliver Wenn. "It's a tiki sci-fi musical, so it takes all the elements of '50s pop cult, such as grass skirts, hula girls, mai tais . . . mixed with sci-fi culture, Family Guy, South Park, all those naff robots." Before passing too much judgment, however, Wenn adds that it's an "absolutely piss-funny musical"."The story is officially: sexy alien invader manipulates the desires of two rival science-fiction writers in a bid to destroy our planet and colonise a new one," Wenn says succinctly. The multiple storylines include the Venus Girls, who are searching for sperm to procreate a new planet.

It provokes the question: is this just a bizarre realisation of every teenage boy's fantasy?

"Absolutely," Wenn says, explaining that the market is generation X and Y.

Johnson has created 17 tracks from an original score by Brent Hill. "The music is at once rock'n'roll, as it is lounge, as it is '50s tiki, as it is Jailhouse Rock," says Wenn, continuing his list by breaking out into a number of different tunes like a human jukebox. A live band - including a saxophonist, marimba player, drummer, bassist, lead guitarist and keyboards player - performs on the night in fluorescent skeleton suits.

It complements an equally crazy wardrobe, including the Venus Girls, who wear crazy green make-up, pink curly hair, flashing antennae, silver metallic finishings and killer heels.