'Honk', 14th to 18th February 2006 - Young Arcadians On Tuesday 14th February to Saturday 18th February 2006 we will perform this musical version of Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Duckling, at The Plinston Hall, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City. Performance Time: 7.30 pm every evening Matinee Performance: 2.30 pm Saturday You can request your tickets for Honk! here. Honk! is George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's musical version of Hans Christian Andersen’s Ugly Duckling which won the Best New Musical Award in 2000. It is a family musical. The music is catchy and the lyrics are witty. The cast have almost as much fun as the audience, and there are several opportunities for brilliant cameos within the story. Mallards Drake and Ida await the hatching of their new brood, but the clutch does seem to contain one inordinately large egg. The egg hatches into a huge, gangly freak of a duck, whose quack is more of a "Honk!". Ugly, as the newcomer is quickly named, is ostracised by all except Ida his mother, and the farmyard Cat, who invites Ugly to "dinner", with comical results. Alone and outcast, Ugly flees the farmyard. Ida sets off in pursuit. Now lost, Ugly meets a flock of Geese under the control of Greylag, a goose of mediocre military aspirations. The geese help Ugly to escape the pursuing Cat. Ugly takes refuge in a cosy cottage, home to Lowbutt and Queenie (a domesticated hen and her feline companion). The Cat shows up and takes a reciprocated fancy to Queenie. Ugly escapes amid the confusion. An encounter with a cheerful Bullfrog teaches him that he must accept himself, "warts and all". With winter approaching, Ugly is further from home than ever. Ida and the Cat are still in pursuit. Finally, Ugly meets a beautiful young swan named Penny and falls in love. She invites him to migrate, but, still desperate to find Ida, he declines. He survives the winter and, in spring, the returning swans guide Ida to her son. The Cat, by this time an attractive ice-statue, has probably learned his lesson. Ugly, now a stunningly beautiful swan, is finally admired and loved by everyone.