IF you think the story of “Ladies Night,” the play opening at The Q tonight, sounds a bit familiar, you’d be right. 

Written in 1987, by Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair, “Ladies Night” has been translated into 16 languages and is New Zealand’s most commercially successful play ever.

It had several national tours followed by tours in the UK between 1990 and 1994 and has been translated into sixteen languages.

But here’s the thing—it deals with four unemployed guys, who form a male stripping act, in order to make some fast cash.

And doesn’t that sound just a bit like “The Full Monty?” That’s exactly what McCarten thought when, in 1998, he launched a multi-million pound lawsuit in California, against the producers of the 1997,   which was the highest grossing British film at the time. The case was eventually thrown out because the film had been made in England.

“Ladies Night,” unlike “The Full Monty,” is all comedy though, and you’ll  get to see the blokes stripping to familiar tunes like ‘‘Hot Stuff,” “Smooth Operator” and “Wild Thing.”

The Q is saying, “it’s the kind of show that you can take your granny to.”

It stars Ken James (“Skippy”) Steven Tandy (“The Sullivans”) and is part of a national tour.

“Ladies Night,” at ‘The Q’ – Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre

253 Crawford   Street, Queanbeyan, October 10- bookings to 6285 6290

Wednesday October 10 – 8.00pm
Thursday October 11 – 2.00pm & 8.00pm
Friday October 12 – 8.00pm
Saturday October 13  – 2.00pm & 8.00pm