Music­als aren’t every­one’s cup of tea. But if said music­al is set in Wel­ling­ton and involves the assas­sin­a­tions of Glee type char­ac­ters it’s hard not to want to know more.

Joshua Hop­ton Stew­art has writ­ten a hil­ari­ous piece of music­al theatre based on his team’s entry in the 2010 V48Hour Short Film Com­pet­i­tion, Soci­ety Slump Super­stars. 

Cue reces­sion-hit New Zea­l­and with a Prime Min­is­ter who wants his cit­izens’ mood to be improved (you can tell it’s fic­tion­al already). When music plays, the people dance and sing. But not with joy because every waver­ing note, wrong lyr­ic or shabby foot­work could be their demise. Every­one lives a real life musical…but with ser­i­ous con­sequences.

Soci­ety Slump Super­stars is theatre com­pany Fresh­Dada’s debut pro­duc­tion and will be per­formed at BATS Theatre 8pm, 10 – 14 April, 2012. With a cast of 20 ridicu­lously enthu­si­ast­ic sing­ers and per­formers, led by Dir­ect­or Joshua Stew­art and Cho­reo­graph­er Sam Mcleod (Bloody Broad­way 2) it is sure to go down a treat.

Tick­ets are avail­able right now from BATS Theatre  www.bats.co.nz/ticket-form/

Get in quick as open­ing night has already sold out!