This years show was a great success with a wonderful selection of songs, a bright and colourful event too.

Our young people worked hard during the winter months, as of course do the production team to ensure a good quality show. The dance team displayed a great style during their set and the sketches performed by the young team added the humour.

Well done to everyone involved in any role with the production of this show.

Roll on next year.

Feb 2012:

The show is at the Nuneaton Abbey Theatre from Tues 20^th to Sat 24^th March with a matinee that day as well.

presenting Scouting around the world

The DC visits rehearsals.

December 2011:

December. Rehearsals will have short break over the Christmas period but elements of the show are coming along well and as we move into the start of the new year it will become even more exciting as we get closer to show time. 

9/10/11 Registration for our 2012 Gang Show has completed with 95 signing up. CD's of the music have been issued and rehearsals have already started.

The History of Gang Show

In 1931, Ralph Reader, a Rover Scout who had already made his mark in theatre in the USA and London, was asked to write a Scout based amateur variety show to help raise money for a swimming pool at Downe Scout Camp.

Initially the show did not have a title but during a rehearsal break, Reader recalled later, he asked a cast member if everyone was ready to which the response was Aye, Aye Skip, the gang's all here. The first production, under the title The Gang's All Here ran between 30th October and 1st November, 1932 at the Scala Theatre in central London.

Despite the fact that the show was not a sell out, enough money was raised to fund the swimming pool and the show was well received. Baden Powell, the founder of scouting, approached Reader and persuaded him to produce another show in 1933. This show was produced with the title The Gang Comes Back and ran for a week.

A tradition had been born and Reader continued to write and produce the London Gang Show. In 1934 the show became known as The Gang Show and the song Crest of a Wave was performed for the first time becoming over the years the Show's iconic song internationally.

Members of Gang Shows are identified by a distinctive red neckerchief with GS and the area name and this is the accepted symbol of Gang Show all over the world.