News
The Adventures of Mr Toad
This delightful musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is ideal for schools, amateur theatre groups and professional companies alike.
Your principals will revel in playing classic roles such as Toad, Mole, Rat, Badger and the Chief Weasel. The show features 15 wonderful, catchy songs and can be adapted to suit eight performers (plus chorus) but also works well with a “cast of thousands”.
Visit www.MrToadtheMusical.co.uk for a synopsis of the show, a rundown of the characters, sound extracts from each of the songs and your Performing Licence Form. A study pack (perusal script and CD) is available from the publishers. Backing track CD available Spring 2010.
A Christmas Carol
A traditional, new musical based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens
Book & lyrics by Chris Blackwood
Music by Piers Chater Robinson
For many around the world, Christmas isn’t Christmas without revisiting the well loved tale of the penny-pinching miser,
Ebenezer Scrooge and the awakening of his long forgotten festive spirit.
Written in the latter months of 1843, over a period of just a few weeks Charles Dickens created one of his most affecting and universal novels, A Christmas Carol.
This ghostly tale of the Past, Present and Future is brought to life in this exciting new musical adaptation. Keeping true to the original text, it draws upon the themes of time, family, and societies ills to warm even the coldest of hearts.
Bringing the atmosphere of Victorian Christmas traditions to the stage, this vibrant and joyous musical takes you on a journey of discovery. A journey where the true meaning of Christmas is found. With a cavalcade of colourful Dickensian characters and a ghostly quartet of guardians, A Christmas Carol is the perfect way to get you into the Christmas spirit.
Filled with joy, laughter and heartbreaking moments, this new version has something for everyone, both young and old.
NOW available for amateur licensing.
Visit: www.AChristmasCarolMusical.co.uk to download a script extract plus details of the characters, backing track CD, concept album, performing licence and to listen to each of the musical numbers.
Through the Looking Glass
- where your dreams are shattered
As the chessboard crumbles, the Red Queen refuses to give up the crown and, when the White pieces are all captured, a small band of revolutionaries, led by the White King, struggle to maintain the balance.
When Alice notices something strange about the looking glass in the parlour, little does she know that shes is about to become a pawn
in the Looking Glass War. In a world of grinning identical twins, cracked nursery rhyme charactes, gallantry and madness, Alice is about to see things are seldom what they seem.
As the net draws closer on Alice and she fights to return home, there is one thing she must do before all is the right way round. The balance must be restored. With the help of the decrepid and addled White Knight, Alice must become Queen before a terrible beast is let loose upon the land and the world belongs to the Red Queen forever.
Full of mystery and wonder, Alice's adventures through the looking glass will take you on a magical journey you will never forget. Based on Lewls Carroll's evergreen classic, Through the Looking Glass, this musical adaptation, humorous and lively, and by turns, dark and broody, brings a new slant to Alice's adventures.
In a world where the rules are back to front and upside down, come with us Through the Looking Glass and journey across the chessboard where illusion is the only thing that is guaranteed.
Book & lyrics by Chris Blackwood
Music by Piers Chater Robinson
Available for amateur licensing from January 2011.
Visit: www.AliceTheMusical.com for details