1999/2000 LTM NATIONAL PANTOMIME
BUGSIE
THE MILLENNIUM BUG
The Story
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A mysterious deportee is off-loaded by US Marshalls
in the community, around the same time as the Browns arrive
from England to bring “technology for prosperity”
to their hometown. The Mayor, Miss P, welcomes the Browns but
soon finds that the other guest - one Bugsie, has strange habits.
She is accompanied by a posse of Pink Mealy Bugs. Sidey, Miss
P’s sidekick, yields to temptation and offers the strangers
lodgings, a decision which he will regret later.
In no time, Bugsie persuades the people to abandon Miss P’s
leadership and follow her in the hope of getting visas and other
‘let-off”, they respond to Bugsie’s request to
hand over all computerised equipment. Soon these stop working,
just around the same time as Bugsie’s appetite for micro
chips grows.
Both the Browns and Bugsie own very special barrels. Each is
of significance to its owner. When the barrels get misplaced,
trouble starts. Bugsie has a special reason for wishing to find
her barrel - as do the Browns. The stage is set for a showdown.
After all, Bugsie is the Millennium Bug, the dread Y2K (or so
people seh) and Miss P wishes to preserve the good old time
values.
Can Miss P regain her leadership from Bugsie? Who will the people
follow? Will Bugsie stay or go away? Will it all end well? Of
course it does. This is the Pantomime, after all… and there’s
always "a new time to rise and shine.”
Cast
of Characters Miss P: Faith Bucknor/Doreen King Bugsie: Nadean Rawlins/Jackie Higgins Sidey: Kevin Roach/Melward Morris Mr Brown : Audley Green/Carlton Butler Mrs. Brown : Barbara Johnson Fiona: Michelle Edwards/ Sonia Samuels Ricardo: Kevin Halstead Lucy: Laura Smith Puncy: Ericka Wilson Flora : Doreen King/Jackie Higgins Dora : Delrose Burke/Sonia Samuels Mavis: Pauline Woodburn Latina: Marvett Murphy Calypsa : Trecia Guy Sketina : Simone Haughton Bikey: Michael Dawkins/ George Howard Deejay : Phillip Powell Youths: Sophia Fletcher, Kitwana Ruddock, Renee Hoilet, O’Neil Clayton |
Musical
Numbers Act 1 Overture Come back to Jamaica Long Long Time Get Outta town De Barrel Come How Fe Mek Money Bikey the Cycle Cop It's a New Time Do Missa Sidey Jamaica Time (Maurice Gordon) Nutten Nah Gwan Bugsie's Party Act
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