Musical Theatre
I’ve been writing musical theatre – I write book, music and lyrics --since 1977 when I first dramatized a novella by Lytton Strachey that I’d enjoyed for some while. In 1982, I wrote my first completely original piece, JUST GOOD FRIENDS and the three pieces that followed that were all to original plot lines. In the late 1980s I became somewhat disillusioned with the direction that musical theatre was taking – I prefer book musicals to sung-through pieces – and stopped for some years. Eventually the last of my four original-plotted musicals screamed out to be written and I worked on it for some years. Since joining Mercury Musical Developments (or what was, in 1999, the Mercury Workshop) I’ve worked on musicals that have dramatized already existing stories, a myth, some fairy tales and various biographical pieces about real people.