Cringeworthy

Nicola is back ushing at Circa again, this time for 60s music show Cringeworthy – Swinging In the 60’s! I decided to tag along as well.

Cringeworthy is a show of 60s music and fashions, as they reached New Zealand – so some of the singers or versions are attributed to New Zealand acts. The songs are sung and danced by the cast to a backing track, and they have additional dancers to assist. The songs span the 60s decade, but are concentrated on those with vocal arrangements and harmonies as there are four singers in the cast. For the first half, they are dressed in black and white outfits that recall the early sixties, the heyday of swingin’ London, Mary Quant, miniskirts, kinky boots etc. In the second half they start out as flower power hippies, then morph into Monkees-style late sixties costumes.

The mastermind behind this is Andrea Sanders, who brought us BeatGirls (largely 50s and 60s-based girl group songs), and the original Cringeworthy. Herein lies my beef: The title. The original was set in the 70s, and we can universally agree that this is the most cringiest of decades, without a doubt. They then moved on to the 80s, which produced the best music ever; and now the 60s. The music is not cringeworthy!

That set list in full:

Afterwards we toddled along to Field & Green for dinner. We mixed it up a bit from last time, but still couldn't get past their salmon mousse and  Gruyère soufflé, but mixed it up with cos and courgetti, and saltimbocca.