SYNOPSIS

“Global Warming – the Musical” is a fast moving, light-hearted musical romance set against a backdrop of wannabe pop stars and dramatic climate change.

The Glo Chics are an up and coming all-girl group who want to shed their dreary jobs and lives, turn professional and become famous. Glo is unaware that Jude, one of the  four Glo Chics, is in love with her.

A nationwide search for a "Song for the Planet" presents them with the opportunity to get the break they have been looking for and sees the Glo Chics performing their song “Let’s Heat it Up” on live television while stripping down to bikinis and Wellington boots. The phone-in vote makes the Glo Chics the winners but the sponsors of the show, Friends of the Planet, refuse to allow a song about heating up the planet to win, so the presenter of the show, Larry Pratt, is tricked into announcing another competitor, Luke Warm, singing his conservation song “Our Earth”, as the winner. There is a power cut towards the end of the show and in the confusion and by chance, Glo and Luke meet. It’s love at first sight but Jude sees what's going and is very jealous although she hides her feelings. Glo and Luke spend the night together before Luke has to go off to the show's boot camp to prepare for the national final.

Although Jude had said nothing about what she had seen, the rest of the Glo Chics find out about Luke and, worried that they will lose out if Glo drops them for Luke, they plot to break up the affair which, to their delight, seems to work.  The Glo Chics are booked to sing at the Greenhouse Pub where they first started out and, to Glo’s surprise and the Glo Chics consternation, Luke turns up.  The Glo Chics plot almost works but Jude then confesses her part in it (and her love for Glo) before running out of the pub where she gets knocked down by a 4 x 4.  Glo blames herself for not realising how Jude felt about her, but all turns out well as Jude is not hurt but has been ‘swept off her feet’ by the lesbian driver.  Larry, the Song for the Plant presenter, also arrives and tells Glo that, due to him, the sponsors have reversed the decision of the phone-in vote and first place is given to Glo and the Chics. Luke is persuaded to join the group and sing with them in the finals but he and the sponsors insist that the words of the song must be changed. Glo reluctantly agrees provided she can live the life style she yearns for.