Su finds she has loads to Shout about

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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Su Pollard issued a special invitation to Guide readers this week, urging them to dig out their old 60s' fashions, get themselves a bucket load of mascara and get down to the Theatre Royal to party the night away.

Shout is a swingin' sixties show packed with all the biggest hits from the decade and starring not only Su but Claire Sweeney too.

Su regrets that she didn't keep any of her old sixties clobber herself but says that many people probably did. "If you can still get into your mini skirt and plastic boots get them out and put them on and get down to the theatre," said Su. "It would be criminal to miss this show."

Su says she remembers being a teenager in Nottingham during the sixties and going out in lots of outrageous clothing including a skirt in which she dare not bend down. "I would go past a building site and if the men didn't whistle I would go past again and ask them why they hadn't."

Su started her career as funny woman at a very early age – six actually – when she played an angel in the school nativity play. She stood on a box to announce the arrival of the Angel Gabriel and promptly fell through the lid. It was an early lesson in the power of laughter.

Anyone who remembers Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks programme on TV might just recall a young woman singing I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No from Oklahoma who came second to a singing Jack Russell terrier. That was Su.

But having been in TV's short- lived Two Up Two Down she landed the part of Peggy in Hi De Hi! and her career has not looked back.

Next week in Shout you can hear her singing such classics as You're My world and I Only Want to Be With You while at other times you can dance in the aisles to Downtown, Son of A Preacher Man, To Sir With Love and These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.

Shout is at the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday September 22 to Saturday September 27. Ticket prices range from £12 to £28.50. To book seats call the box office on 01225 448844 or book online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk

If you would like two free tickets to see next week's opening night performance of Shout enter this week's competition. Answer the following question correctly and put your answer together with your name address and daytime telephone number on a postcard and send it to Theatre Royal Competition, The Guide, The Bath Chronicle, Westpoint, James Street West, Bath BA1 2DA. The writer of the first correct answer out of the hat on Monday morning will get the tickets.

The question is: what was the name of the holiday camp sit com in which Su made her name?

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