Apologies for the reply delay, but you should have been earlier
starting, Gilligan, I would have stayed at th computer in my
insomniac state.

Certainly you've alerted me to a wealth of material here, well
not so much a wealth as a pawnbroker's loan, but material
nonetheless. BTW get your spellcheck fixed, it's consistently
spelling "faeces" as "faces".

I don't think its the seeds of an opera; opera requires some
depth, with at least one-dimensional plots, characters and
emphases. Likewise not a soap opera, which needs at least a
scrubber or two. But, like some of its leading characters, it
might go down very well, in pantomime.

I wait with anticipitation the appearance of old folk-derived
favourites like "The grass-o grew green all around", and I'm sure
even the adults in the audience, normally sitting numbed at the
mindless drivel they're paying to inflict upon their children,
yes, even the adults, feeling a certain moistness somewhere when
the audience is asked that wonderful and much-loved question, "Do
you believe in Bunyips?"

Just one thing: you will need to convince me that this is in fact
the Gilligan creativity coming to the fore, and that we have
indeed discovered where the flying monkeys disappeared to, and
that you didn't lift this whole idea off an old and tired LP.

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Gilligan wrote:

Well, there's more evidence - the seeds of an opera no less!

Scene: Bertie is sitting in the billabong playing (Stage left). He is very
dirty. Bunyip household (kitchen, two beds) is stage right. Chorus is
sitting either side of the stage area or in front. Mr Bunyip is reading the
paper.

Cast: Mr and Mrs Bunyip and the three Bunyip Children; assorted fairies,
fishes, narrator and chorus.

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Mrs Bunyip: (Hugging two children) I just can't work it out. I've got three
children. Two are just lovely, then there's Bertie!. Just look at him. What
a mess!

Mr. Bunyip (looking up from his newspaper). Well, two out of three ain't
bad!

Song 1 (Chorus). Bertie Bunyip

Our Bertie Bunyip's very bad, as bad as bad can be,
He will not eat his dinner, and he will not eat his tea.
He sits all day in the billabong poking faces as his mother,
He bites his little sister and he kicks his little brother.
His mother says, I really don't know what to do with Bertie!
His hands are always filthy and his face is always dirty,
He never brushes that hair of his or even washes his face
Do you know what I think about Bertie?
He's a disgrace to the Bunyip Race!
A disgrace! A disgrace! A disgrace to the Bunyip Race!

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Mrs. Bunyip: Actually, he seems to prefer water to land.
I just can't understand it! Where did I go wrong?

Fairies: You didn't go wrong Mrs Bunyip. Bertie did.

Song 4 (Fairies). Well Well

"Well, well," replied the fairies
And they gave their wands a swish.
"If he's all that fond of the water then
We'll turn him into a FISH!"
"Oh! Dear me," screamed Bertie,
Now I am in trouble,
Where have all my legs gone,
And he blew a little bubble.

Then Bertie wept a little tear
And cried a little bit.
I'm not a fish yelled Bertie,
You know I'm a Bun YIP!

The book includes score, song sheets, production hints and alternate endings
(for Christmas and easter).The accompanying tape has vocals and
accompaniments for all twelve songs in the play

"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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Gilligan wrote:

http://www.pibburns.com/cryptost/bunyip.htm

You will note, Mr Gilligan, that the bunyip description lays much
stress on "evil spirit", "bunyip's loud bellowing", "emerges at
night principally to prey on women and children". In contrast, a
Tadpole is neither mythical, nor so uncivilised. There is no
relationship whatsoever.

((And meanwhile, Gilligan singing "A Heart That's Golden" in
praise of Capt Neal has reached No 64 on the mp3.com
easy-listening chart for Oceania!))

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