"It's great to welcome the talented Follow Spot team back to Kalk Bay Theatre," says owner Simon Cooper. "In keeping with the festive season spirit, our usual show schedule of Wednesday to Saturday has been extended to other days of the week, including Sundays."
Featuring Bradley and Ash Searle (of "So You Think You Can Dance" fame), "Big Boys Don't Dance" is set at Ash's bachelor party. The boys get into their fair share of trouble but from one ridiculous idea to another, they prove that true brothers watch each other's back. Using a range of dance styles, from 80s hip hop to kwaito, Dirty Dancing to the Shuffle, they twirl their way through this unforgettable adventure of far-out farce and foolishness. Caught between braai tongs and tutus these two Pretoria guys challenge the cliché of the 'male dancer'.
Ash Searle is a technically trained dancer who has performed all over the world and locally in an array of shows including "African Footprint", "Chicago", "Fame" and "We Will Rock You". With his wife Vanessa Harris, he runs Follow Spot Productions, developing a style of choreography and performance that brings comedy, theatre and dance together in a new off-the-wall genre of live entertainment.
After many years in dance training, Bradley Searle hit the professional stage in "Peter Pan" in his grade 11 year, getting special leave of absence from school to do so and hasn't looked back since. He has appeared in productions such as "Footloose the Musical" and "Pinnochio", followed by a country-wide run in "Big Boys Don't Dance" and directing "Love @ First Fight".
Director Vanessa Harris started dancing at the age of three and acting at ten. She qualified with an ATCL (Trinity College of London) in Musical Theatre, and has since worked non-stop appearing in many stage shows and musicals, including "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Fangs - the musical", "Fusion", the "Buddy Holly Story" and playing the part of Wendy in the pantomime, "Peter Pan". In 2008 she spent six months performing in Asia with the touring cast of "We Will Rock You - the Queen Musical". Harris was also seen on South African movie screens as the female lead in the late Bill Flynn's comedy "Running Riot".
