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Book Adaptations

Musicals

Gulliver's Travels - the definitive musical

Gulliver's Travels

(by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Chris Chambers, music by Andy Rapps)

Principals : 9m, 7f, 1m/f   Support : 10m, 4f, 3jr-m, 1jr-f plus chorus
NOTE : All Principal and Support roles can be doubled except for Gulliver, Mary and Don Pedro.
A colourful, fun and inventive adaptation of Swift's novel bringing out the deeper side of Gulliver's character set to stunning music. The Lilliputians (tiny people) and the Brobdingnadians (huge people) are well known to most, but the musical also covers two not so well known parts of the original book : the lands of Laputa (the flying island) and Houyhnhnm (the land of intelligent horses). Whilst this musical is enjoyable in its spectacle to children, it is most definitely a musical for all ages.
'Quasimodo' a sung-through musical by Steven Humfress and Andy Rapps

Quasimodo

(based on 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' by Victor Hugo
                                 adapted by Steve Humfress & Andy Rapps)

The story of Esmeralda and Quasimodo centred in and around the cathedral of Notre-Dame in medieval Paris. Esmeralda has a generous heart and shows this side of her nature to Quasimodo, the deaf and deformed bell ringer, when all others mock him. When she is later threatened following an amorous misadventure, he rescues her and provides sanctuary for her in the cathedral. Sadly though, she dies at the hand of those who have loved her most.

Pride and Prejudice

     (by Jane Austen, adapted by Bernard J Taylor)

Principals : 5m, 10f     Support : 3m, 5f (plus chorus)
The story told in Pride And Prejudice of the Bennet family, centred as it is on the relationship between the proud aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy and the high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet, is one of the most enduringly popular novels of all time and has had a far-reaching influence on all romantic fiction right up to the present day. This musical disappoints neither Austen fans nor theatre audiences.

Wuthering Heights

     (by Emily Brontë, adapted by Bernard J Taylor)

Principals : 3m, 4f adult, 1f junior     Support : 3m, 1f, 2jnr-m, 1jnr-f (plus chorus)
The haunting image of Heathcliffe searching the moors for the ghost of his beloved Cathy is surely one of the enduringly passionate scenes in English literature. This adaptation has been recognised by the Brontë Society as marking the first time that the true spirit of this masterpiece has been captured in music. Heathcliffe enters the House On The Hill, and the wild boy falls for Cathy, but attracts nothing but hatred from Hindley, her brother.

Plays

Mansfield Park

     (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalen)

 (6m, 7f)     (Coming Soon)
Fanny Price is the poor relation of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, and has, from the age of ten, lived with the Bertram family at Mansfield Park. The shy and retiring Fanny is an intelligent observer of the flirtations and foibles of her four cousins and the sophisticated brother and sister, Henry and Mary Crawford, who move into the neighbourhood and disrupt the peace of the Bertram family.

Persuasion

     (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalen)

(5m, 8f)     (Coming Soon)
The bittersweet story of love that might have been. At the age of nineteen, Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse an offer of marriage from a young naval officer. Their paths cross again eight years later, but now Anne is a faded spinster and her fatheris badly in debt, while Captain Wentworth has made his fortune in the war and is a much sort after matrimonial prize.

Sense And Sensibility

     (by Jane Austen, adapted by Pamela Whalen)

(6m, 6f)
Lose your heart and come to your senses as you follow the fortunes of Elinor, the sensible sister and Marianne, the sister who is ruled by her feelings. The reserve of one sister and the lack of reserve of the other can equally lead to their undoing as they struggle to come to terms with the poverty thrust upon them by their father’s untimely death.