Alistair Izobell, Loukmaan Adams and Mono Dullisear have for years been lead men in the musicals of David Kramer and Taliep Petersen. Izobell’s voice is familiar in the Cape as a presenter on Heart 104.9 FM radio, while Adams and Dullisear are part of boy-group JAG.
In Where the Boys Are they have teamed up as a trio of crooners to showcase their musical and acting talents. The theme for this evening of ballads is their relationship to women, an excuse to string together several numbers, including Petersen and Kramer’s Zurayda and Queen of Hearts.
The exercise is a somewhat tenuous balance between musical entertainment and storytelling. Not all the stories are interesting enough to warrant staging, but as they are autobiographical, they are upfront, honest and perhaps for this reason slightly more compelling than taken at face value.
Starting with birth, they move through various stages – childhood games, school, adolescent love, their careers that have taken them on tour around the world. The women featured are adoring mothers, jealous lovers, controlling wives. Of course, we only hear one side of the story.
All three are married and the second half has each sharing with us where they have now arrived in life.
All three are equally weighted as actors and wonderful singers. Director Basil Appollis keeps the pace snappy. Although there are no show-stopping moments, it is a smooth evening of humour and quality entertainment.
