One Last Summer

Poster & Flyer for 1st Musical : March 1995: Atlanta, Georgia. An unlikely location for the premier of a Surfing musical about middle class Californian adolescents , aspiring to make it in the mid '60's . However Atlanta is a beautiful city , and the audiences at the Alliance Theatre were very receptive. Barry & I had written and arranged most of the songs in a pop format and really just hung around while the experts converted the work into a musical. I didn't have a clue what to do. Scott Woolley was the Musical Director , and was very gracious to us, doing a tremendous job with the songs. The story centres on a fictious band, The Californians (pictured above) who are loosely based on Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. The backdrop of the impending Vietnam conflict gave it an edge , and was also quite a courageous direction taken by David Bell. Left to Right : David Gunderman,David Silverman,Roy Chicas,Hunter Bell & Guy Adkins.