Musicals

Posted: Sep 30, 2016 by Flynx In: Musicals Teaching Comments: 0

Red Beach School New Zealand Compass Rose Performance

A big shout out to Jill McTeigue and the students of Red Beach School. Loved your photos from Compass Rose! Your sets and costumes look gorgeous and I hope you had a great time putting it on! One lovely touch; Red Beach borrowed our original prop ‘Compass’ (to the right in the featured photograph) and

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Posted: Jul 10, 2014 by Flynx In: Drama Music Musicals Comments: 0

Maverick Musicals Update

My good mates at Maverick Musicals (who publish my musicals) have just updated their website and what a beauty it is! Now, I must admit to nostalgia for the old site, after all, I designed and coded it, learning FrontPage, asp programming and design along the way. But there was no easy way to bring this very

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Posted: May 29, 2014 by Flynx In: Drama Musicals Comments: 0

Compass Rose: Synopsis

Compass Rose & the Birdnesters ACT ONE It is the early 19th century and Queen Victoria is on the throne in England. An ocean away in the far Pacific, the HMS Shearwater, with famous explorer Captain McAlister at the helm, is nearing the mysterious Island at the End of World’. Locked in her cabin for

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Posted: May 25, 2014 by Flynx In: Musicals Teaching Comments: 0

Rapa Nui Language Resources

Rapa Nui – the language – is spoken by a minority of Easter Island’s population. Figures suggest perhaps 800 out the 3700 or so inhabitants. I wanted to include some authentic Rapa Nui language in the script for my new musical ‘Compass Rose’, though I’m not convinced I’ve achieved it!. There aren’t a huge number of resources

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Posted: Jun 17, 2013 by Flynx In: Musicals Comments: 0

Timothy Tuck, Cornish teacher

You never quite know when – or where – you’ll turn up on the net. But even I was a little surprised to find myself (and one of my musicals) in the footnotes to “Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860: Reality and Popular Myth” (Cathryn Pearce). Even more surprising is to discover I’m actually a Cornish teacher… I

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Posted: Jun 23, 2012 by Flynx In: Musicals Comments: 0

Conundrum in Punjab

Very exciting! ‘Conundrum‘, one of my very first musicals with Maverick is to be performed in Amritsar in Punjab, India! Conundrum is full of bad puns, bad riddles and indeed, a Bad Joke Monster, so I’d love to see how that – plus a bunch of squabbling Joke Gnomes – all translates across.    View

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