Book
Barbara Gloudon and
Conliffe Wilmot Simpson

Music
Grub Cooper

Lyrics
Barbara Gloudon,

Movement and Staging
Nicky deGrasse Johnson, Alice Berry &
George Howard,

Set
Michael Lorde

Costumes
Anya Gloudon

Props
Symonne Coombs

Lighting
George Carter &
Michael McDonald

Sound
Vincent Chin Penn &
Sylvester Campbell

Stage Management
Larry Watson

Directed by
Brian Heap

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1999/2000 LTM NATIONAL PANTOMIME
BUGSIE THE MILLENNIUM BUG

The Story

Bugsie
Bugsie
Bugsie

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 2
Party Riddim (Shocking Vibes)
Beware Y2K
System Crash
Go Back
It's a New Time (reprise)
Finale

Orchestra
Calvin Cameron - Leader/ Trombone
Audley Searchwell - Keyboard
Charmaine Bowman - Piano
Calvin Mitchell - Percussion
Percussion: Paul Mullings
Devrowe Clarke
O’Neil Clayton