Go-Go Beach is a new stage musical in the style of a 1960s California Beach Party film, such as those starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Each year during a three-week fall Festival the New York Musical Theatre Festival presents more than thirty new musicals at venues in New York City's midtown theater district Beach Party movies were an American 1960s genre of feature films which often starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. Annette Joanne Funicello (born October 22, 1942) is an American Singer and Actress. Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone September 18 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American Actor The show has book and lyrics by John Wimbs. and music by Michael Shaieb and Brent Lord and consists of an original plot and original pop score of 18 songs, inspired by 1960s surf rock, girl groups, go-go, and flower power. Surf rock is a style of music that originated in the USA that mixes elements of Surf music and Rock music, and partially due to the number of Mexican A girl group is a Popular music act featuring several young Female Singers who generally harmonize together Go-go is a subgenre of funk that originated in the Washington D Flower power was a Slogan used by Hippies (aka Flower Children) during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of Non-violence Ideology

Composers Brent Lord and Michael Shaieb

The story follows a group of care-free teens during the last two days of the summer of 1966. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Their leader, a surfer named Woody, gets into trouble with his girlfriend when he falls for a runaway pop star, and his flower-child pal Bulldog helps him find the true meaning of love.

The first public performance was a developmental reading at the 42nd Street Studios in New York City on June 21st and 22nd, 2001. playbill.com

On May 21, 2006 The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) announced "Go-Go Beach" among the 18 musicals selected out of 400+ applicants for the 2006 Next Link component of the festival. Each year during a three-week fall Festival the New York Musical Theatre Festival presents more than thirty new musicals at venues in New York City's midtown theater district It played six festival performances at 37 Arts from September 14, 2006 to September 23, 2006.

"Go-Go Beach" was among 23 musicals offered in the 2006 debut catalog of New York-based licensing agent Theatrical Rights Worldwide, who represents exclusive stage performing rights for the musical.

Notable Productions

April 17- 20, 2008: Canadian High School premiere at Bluefield High School, Hampshire, Prince Edward Island.

External links

• John Wimbs at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Shaieb at the Internet Movie Database
• Brent Lord at the Internet Movie Database
• Go-Go Beach Official Site
• Go-Go Beach on Facebook
• Licensing Rights for Go-Go Beach