Offer of free Christmas musical is a real present

Sep 25 2009 By John Slim

WHO fancies presenting a brand new feel-good musical?

Dave Buxton has written What Colour Is Christmas, a show set at the East Pole in Rainbowland – a country divided into seven counties named after the seven colours of the rainbow. Greenland is where environmentally-friendly toys are made from recycled items such as curtains, tablecloths and sheets and the toys are assembled by 26 Dinkybets – the alphabet people who are Santa Claus’s helpers.

Dave is looking for groups to launch the show, for which he would waive all performance licence fees as well as providing libretti, CDs of all its 15 songs, fully orchestrated as backing tracks and with vocals, as well as the score and orchestral parts, a complete songbook, and the book itself – which also comes in audio form.

He may be contacted at davejazzbuxton@aol.com.

n HALL Green Little Theatre opens its 60th anniversary season tonight with Butterflies Are Free, by Leonard Gershe – first presented there in its 1982-83 season.

Margaret Whitehouse’s production revisits the play with something of a challenge for the programme printers, as the company includes Ara Sotoudeh, Zofia Zolna and John Bourbonneaux.

The landmark production comes six months after Oldbury Repertory Players marked their 70th anniversary at the Barlow Theatre, Langley.

* SUTTON Coldfield’s Tudor Musical Comedy Society will be at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, from Tuesday to Saturday next week with the Midlands première of The Likes of Us, which in 1965 was the first musical collaboration between Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is on limited release to amateurs before professional production.