Ponytone

Hainault High Drama Workshop – What We Gonna Do (1978)

RIKKY The Musical was devised and directed by Steve Birch and performed by the Hainault High School Drama Workshop in Essex, England. The students were ages 11-14 and had a lot of creative input on the project. The story is based on a boy who dreams of stardom. He goes to an audition set up by a scheming record company that’s rapidly going broke and needing new blood to boost its flagging finances. The boy and his backing group are selected from the audition, and from that point the story becomes one of increasing manipulation. “RIKKY” is created and becomes a veritable Superstar. However, in the typical pop-machine process, the innocent boy inside is destroyed, his relationship with his girlfriend crumbles, and eventually he collapses on stage and dies. The story isn’t quite over, however, because the record company creates another RIKKY…. an EVIL RIKKY… who seems all set to be even bigger than the original! The final song introduces RIKKY 2.0:

Hainault High Drama Workshop – Ballad of A Star

Hainault High Drama Workshop – Gotta Dance