LOBO A GO-GO
Written by Jeff Richmond (with additional book and lyrics by John Cameron), Lobo a Go-Go draws on the 1941 Lon Chaney classic The Wolf Man in much the same way The Rocky Horrow Show does on the classic 1931 Frankenstein. The story, told through an extended flashback by an aging lounge singer named Johnny Silver, recounts the events at Woodrow Wilson High School’s 1959 Harvest Moon Semiformal. On this autumn night, all is not well: because Dean and Jamie, the Harvest Moon king and queen, have had a lovers’ spat and broken up, both are vulnerable to seduction by the dropouts from across the tracks, Karl and Mimi. (Mimi introduces herself by announcing: “I am your mother’s worst nightmare and your father’s wet dream!” The squeaky-clean Jamie replies, “Cool it, Mattressback–this is my turf.”) Furthermore, a werewolf is rumored to be prowling the district, preying upon unescorted young females. There is a full moon; dense woods surround the school grounds. What will become of these all-American girls and boys on this magic night? Why have Johnny Silver and the Bullets, usually the headliners at the sinister Lobo a Go-Go club, suddenly been booked to play a school dance? And who is the werewolf wiping out the virginal student body of Woodrow Wilson High?
