The story is set in Munich, Germany: On their jaunt into the city, a group of mayors from adjacent Bavarian small towns end up at the Bongo Bar, a seedy haunt in the city's red light district. Things get out of hand when one of them realizes that he's lost his wallet in the bar. How can they get it back, and particularly: how are they going to explain this to their wives?

It's the beginning of a drama, a small-town slapstick piece of rural folk theatre. The ensuing turmoil is as real as it is surreal, and that makes it perfect fodder for STEREO LISA, a band from Berlin. They turn this little gem of German TV history into a musical oeuvre that's as absurdly hilarious as the film. Adaptations of little tales like these mark the irresistible charm of this unusual band: stories like the Bongo Bar, Girls Camp (that mediocre 2001 reality show produced by SAT.1, a privately owned German TV station), or their freaked-out Wedding in a Gherkin Glass.

Founded in 2001, STEREO LISA is made up of two female vocalists plus nine instrumentalists, with German tenorsax champion Gebhard Ullmann and the Olaf Ton Quintet in the midst of it all. As the German newspaper Darmstädter Echo attested on March 9, 2004: "Ingenuity, creative play, and perfect technical skill come up as ingredients for a »  continue