Meet David Connolly, Director and Choreographer for Beehive | Drayton Entertainment 2024
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Logo for Beehive, The ‘60s Musical. Created by Larry Gallagher.	
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David Connolly: I’m David Connolly, and I’m the director and choreographer of Beehive. 
Beehive is a musical that is a song book that takes you through the decade of the ‘60s. Not only will you know all of the music, every single word to every single song, which is always fun in the theatre, you’ll also see a bit of history that is built into the music.
So, we start with people like, you know, The Supremes, and The Chiffons, and The Ronettes, singing about boys and boyfriends, and falling in love, and falling out of love, and then the skirts got shorter, the boots got higher, the hair got higher. 
Then we meet people like Dusty Springfield and hear about protest marches, and hear about women kind of finding their voice. Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin, and Janice Joplin, and people who really changed the game, changed the music game, but also changed the world. 
You know, all of a sudden women had role models in their radios.
The vocal requirements of this show are among the biggest of any show I’ve worked on. We found the perfect group of women. They’re likable, they’re funny, they’re everything you need for a really great night of summer theatre. 
It is so fun to follow the evolution of fashion through the ‘60s, into the ‘70s, and the set is beautiful. It’s so colourful.
No matter how you feel walking in, you’re going to leave lighter, you’re going to be singing the songs all the way home. It doesn’t get better than that.	ON SCREEN: 
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June 5 to June 23
Drayton Festival Theatre
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