1978
Our Story
On a Saturday night in 1978, a mother and son performance at Birkdale School of Arts sparked an idea. Two Guide leaders from Wellington Point Barbara Geary and Joyce McGahey, who were both in attendance at this performance, realised that the Redlands had some very talented youth members and decided that they could create a show like Gang Show, but with the Scouts and Guides of the Redlands. They ran their idea past a Scout Leader from Birkdale and as a result, in December of 1978, with 40 Scouts and 30 Guides the first ever Redlands Revue was performed at the RSL Hall in Cleveland .
Gang Show
Gang Show was written and produced for the first time by a Rover Scout, Ralph Reader in 1932, in London. The show was originally an all male performance, performed only by Boy Scouts. Ralph produced the show to raise money for a swimming pool. While the original Gang Show is no longer running it started a huge movement across the world which is still going strong in many parts of the world today. Gang Shows are produced all through the United Kingdom, Europe, in North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.
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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting attended this first Gang Show and he believed that "amateur theatricals should be a part of every Scout's training."