Pass by this one MEN! or beware.

  Inspired by a hot flush and a bottle of wine, Jeanie Linders created Menopause the Musical as a celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived 'The Change'. Since its first performance, the show has evolved as a 'grassroots' movement of women who deal with life after 40 and all the challenges they conquer mentally, physically and spiritually.

Do you think that 800,000 Australian women could be wrong? We don't think so. After all, that is how many have seen this hilarious show over the last two and a half years. And they love it! So much so, many of the audience members have come back time and time again to join with their sisters in this 90 minute, one act laugh-a-thon! Come and see for yourself. We guarantee that you will leave the theatre uplifted and joyous.  

This post is actually a bit of fun about a very funny musical I had the opportunity to see.

Menopause the Musical is an amazing Show

What a fun one and a half hours my friend and I had at Her Majesties Theatre in Adelaide recently. The show has now stayed over it's expected finish date due to popular demand and I can understand why.

From the moment we gathered in the pink decorated foyer and then made our way through the old theatre to our lovely red seats, we knew we were in for some very good music and some dancing as well. The stage becomes a large shop as we do the different department levels with four very different menopausal ladies. The back drop of course being the Ladies Rest Room. Now why would you think any differently? LOL... that's usually a very popular place in any shopping centre.

Well right from the onset with the song Change! Change! Change! you will find yourself humming along to the tune. Listen...wait... they are not the original words now are they? No they are not.

The songs original music score stays the same and let me say the orchestra above the stage was totally fantastic, However all songs now have words like Stayin awake! Stayin awake! a take off from the Bee Gees classic, Stayin Alive.

Then we have ......I Heard It Through the Grapevine; You No Longer See 39" and on it goes with a total of 25 re-lyricized classic baby boomer hits. A very amusing and catchy parody of hit after hit.

Songs with titles such as... Sign of the times, Night sweats, Flushing, The Great Pretender, I Will Survive, Only You, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. and even a version of YMCA. LOL that will have you singing in your seat. I bought the CD. I just had to hear them all again.

The Book and Lyrics were written by Jeanie Linders apparently after a hot Flash and whilst drinking a bottle of wine and the show has traveled far and wide with great reviews wherever it goes.

We had four very talented musical stars here for this production and all four are Australians. My sister had been to see it before me and said that the women had amazing voices and she was right on the ball there. They were menopausal troupers in my book LOL.

Without giving too much away there is a very hilarious scene where the ladies dressed in their lingerie are introducing their country cousin to some electrifying pleasures. My gosh!!! The song was non other than.. " Whats Love Got to Do with It?" and then we went into " Only You"..

Yes I think you are getting the drift now and to be honest the theatre was almost full with ladies of all ages and some brave and enlightened menfolk who were just having a ball of a time with a bit of off stage play up from the M Girls.

At the end when you are invited up onto the stage there was even one enlightened guy joining in the finale. Oh! and why the heck not it was all such fun!!

What a night. Singing, Laughing and uplifting the Spirit this was a Show for all to enjoy.

So I leave you with a little song below to sing to yourself as you walk down memory lane. As you sing along think of me with my new set of lyrics singing along to my new Menopause the Musical CD. Life will never be the same again!

Stayin awake.. stayin awake.. ooo o ooooo ooohhh.

Milli 2007. We will survive!