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Jack Higgins
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Girl Talk is the stunning combined talents of Mari Wilson, Barb Jungr and Claire Martin.
Join three gorgeous gals, dishin' the dirt and doin' the housework.
If 'Desperate Housewives' needed a soundtrack this would be it!
Three singers at the top of their fields give their all in silk and sequins, pinnies and rubber gloves!
Award winning British Jazz Singer of the Year Claire Martin, International Cabaret award winner Barb Jungr and Neasden Queen of Soul Mari Wilson, solo and in harmony, bring the songs you love to hate to life again in this glamorous celebration of all things girlie.
Bacharach, Sondheim and Tamla Motown, marriage, love and kitchen equipment combine in this hysterical, fabulously sung show performed by Britains best-dressed divas.
How the Girls Got Together
Barb and Claire went to see the singer Rebecca Paris at Pizza Dean Street, where Barb met Mari Wilson again; having appeared with her when she was with The Wilsations and Barb was with The Three Courgettes at Hatfield Polytechnic some years previously.
The three agreed to work together on the show Girl Talk, and spent many a happy time around Mari's orange kitchen table arguing and eating gluten free florentines.
The show opened at a packed Cochrane Theatre, and subsequently the BBC recorded an hour long special of Girl Talk in concert at The Met Bar for Russell Davies.
What the show is
Barb, Claire and Mari are glamorous divas in rubber gloves exploring the role of women through songs about dating, marriage, love, loss, kitchen equipment and make-up; in three part harmony with superb skill and singing.
Girl Talk celebrates and lampoons the non-pc songs of yesteryear with humour and irony.
On stage, there is a piano and three high stools. The performers use various props including fans, handbags, pinafores, rubber gloves, and sparkly tiaras...generally all things girlie.
If Bridget Jones ever worries that she is getting too old to go to pop concerts, solace is at hand in this brash, lipstick n high heels review
The Times
Girl Talks superb accompanist, musical director and producer of their new CD is of course Adrian York. Adrians work with Mari Wilson and Barb Jungrs solo CDs and live shows has received great acclaim. He is also a composer of television and theatre music.
POST-FEMINISM made flesh. The ever-inventive Jungr has recruited sometime associate and the formerly bee-hived Neasden Queen of Soul alongside her labelmate (and neighbour of Wilson) Martin for an ever-so-tongue-in-cheek cruise through some of the least politically correct songs in the popular song repertoire. Bacharach and David's 1960s shockers Wishin' and Hopin' and Wives and Lovers, the rather more ambiguous late-seventies sentiments of Messrs Costello and Jackson (Girls Talk and Different for Girls), showtunes and Motown classics - all are slickly performed in close harmony with fine piano accompaniment from Adrian York. No offence girls, but you have to be old enough to know better to be this damned smart. ****
Keith Bruce, The Herald
Take three of the UK's finest female vocalists, add a bunch of songs at the oh-so-cheesy end of the spectrum and sprinkle liberally with postmodern irony and that, in a nutshell, is Girl Talk. As camp as Christmas and huge fun, this brassy, sassy and supremely arch review takes a deliciously tongue-in-cheek look at love, marriage and make-up in the 21st century via the hallowed classics of yesteryear. Heard solo and in glorious three-part harmony, Mari Wilson, Barb Jungr and Claire Martin are all fabulous singers in their own right, and by some strange work of alchemy their respective worlds of pop, cabaret and jazz combine seamlessly in this common cause. Of course one can't ignore the fact that some of these songs are in fact completely brilliant. It's great to hear Bacharach and David's "Wives and Lovers", Sondheim's "Ladies Who Lunch" and the evergreen Motown number "It Should've Been Me". Also included are such epics of stereotyping as "A Woman's Touch" ("A touch of paint, one magic nail, can turn a kitchen chair into a Chippendale"), complete with its comedic music hall style arrangement. In the role of MD, accompanist and producer Adrian York performs heroically. The live show, now in its seventh successful year, sounds like an absolute riot. Go see.
Peter Quinn - Jazzwise
CABARETGirl TalkThey possess real girl power; lipsticked post-feminism with a knowing sense of humour.
They make you laugh at men, at women - and again at men - not to mention marriage and human relationships.
Girl Talk is a cabaret show with wit and glamour.
Dressed like Stepford wives, the subversive Mari Wilson, Barb Jungr and Claire Martin sing like modern queens of soul, reworking old tunes into refreshing parody.
And there’s a guy too, Adrian York, cornered by his piano.
Girls will always be power girls, cockier than men when it comes to the tricksy world of emotions.
The songs of Girl Talk go to prove it. Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of having quarrels at home, we could have cabaret to allow us to know ourselves better?
"If Bridget Jones ever worries that she is getting too old to go to pop concerts, solace is at hand in this brash, lipstick n high heels review." The Times
"An unashamed celebration of all things girlie" The Times
"A highly entertaining and amiably subversive business reworking old pop songs written for girls by boys from the perspective of changed, gender politics" The Guardian
"Think the 3 tenors with added diva glamour" Evening Standard
"Three of the UK's best female singers have taken these awkward ditties and decided to turn them into parodage - a happy marriage of parody and homage, with the self-consciousness of the former and the fondness of the latter" Culture Wars
"as well as the laughs, underpinning this show was the sheer excellence of the singers." The Newbury Times
"It was all over too soon, and we can only hope another appearance cannot be too far off. Darlings you were absolutely wonderful!" The Chronicle
"To hear their close harmonies on an a cappella version of Bacharach's Wishn' and Hopin' is to be taken to cabaret heaven." The Stage
"Glam Frock" - Enfield Advertiser
"Classy, brassy revue from a diva-licious trio" - Chichester Observer
"beg, steal, bribe or borrow to see this show" - Chichester Observer
"Girls just want to have fun - singing" - Boston Standard
"lipstick n' high heels revue" - Boston Standard
"celebrates the role of women in society, with its tongue firmly wedged in its cheek" - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
"three of this country's best-dressed divas of Jazz, Cabaret and Soul" - Essex Chronicle
"hysterical, fabulously sung evening of marriage, make-up and kitchen equipment" - Essex Chronicle
