FringeReview’s Nicholas Collett talks to musician and now musical writer and performer Sean Findlay about The Shakey Shakey Hips at Paradise Green at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024.
“Hilarious epic 50s rock musical following Shakey Sean (Elvis character) working in an Arbroath egg’n’roll van. A customer asks for a ‘rock’n’roll’. Shakey concedes he doesn’t sell this, spurring the invention of rock’n’roll. Shakey decides to change his egg’n’roll van into a rock’n’roll van, hitting the road, chasing dreams of becoming a rockstar. Hopes are tested by a virus: The Shakey Shakey Hips. Shakey must save the world, get to his rock’n’roll shakedown in Las Vegas and beat evil Elvis – Johnny B Bad – in a hard rock battle!”
Sean talks about how a gigging musicial became a writer of a musical and how the show has developed.
