GANG SHOW 2010 AMAZING FACTS
- A record 283 cast members from 5 to 20 years of age both Scouts and Guides
- Nearly 240 hours spent learning lines, perfecting songs and doing dance routines
- Over 5 months of rehearsing time
- At least 28 songs, dances and sketches – that’s more than two west end musicals
- Around 5000 items in the Gangshow wardrobe knitted, sewn or stuck together by parents and leaders
- Biggleswade Gangshows started in 1975
- Scout Gangshows began in London in 1932 as the brainchild of impresario Ralph Reader
- Around 50% of British women have been part of the Guides at some point in their lives
- You can join the Guides at the age of five and continue for the rest of your life.
- The Guide Movement started 100 years ago in 1910 and now boasts half a million active members
- 38 leaders and 12 backstage adults keep the show together plus a lighting and sound team who make sure the show can be seen and heard by everyone