BACKING TRACKS

At the request of a school I have started to put backing tracks on to the MP3 jukebox which you can hear by clicking on the juke box icon above. The backing tracks can be heard at the end of the list of tracks with vocals on. Please feel free to download these backing tracks if they can be of use in your production.

CHORDS FOR GUITAR / KEYBOARD

I have also had a request to put the chords down for the various songs. I have completed this. You will find them on page 19.

SCRIPT

To copy the script on to your own word processor program, highlight an area of the script then use the copy and paste functions.

St Kevin's - A Musical Fairy Tale

was performed 24 to 27 January 2007 in the village hall in the village of Sway near Lymington in the New Forest, Hampshire, England by Sway Drama Club. It was a hugely successful production for this amateur club with nearly eighty people involved on stage and backstage. John Conway is a member of the club.

The website is set out as follows:

1. Summary of the story

2. Description of main characters

3. The script

4. Audio recording of the songs - left click the juke box icon above

5. Song lyrics with chords, music - under construction

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1.Summary of the story: ST KEVIN'S - A MUSICAL FAIRYTALE                  

Fairy godmother and her assistant, Verrouka, used to fly around on the backs of two great golden eagles doing general fairy godmother like good deeds: Fairy godmother: 'We blessed the children, soothed their fears, and when they cried, we dried their tears. We cracked our jokes, we brought them laughter. I was daft,'    Verrouka: 'And I was dafter.'

Fairy godmother had a sister who grew jealous of her, became a wicked witch and imprisoned Fairy godmother and Verrouka in a tree in a wild wood, turned one of the eagles to stone, the other eagle escaped. The wild wood is near a school, St Kevin's. St Kevin had been a famous rap artist, Kevin Keepitreal, patron saint of chavs.

Four rebellious, misfit type students (the leading characters), hiding in the wild wood to escape sports lessons, help to free Fairy godmother and Verrouka and in return are granted one wish. After much argument the four students decide on a spell to help them write and produce their own musical which will make them rich and famous stage and screen stars. Nobody realises but the spell then cast for the students by the Fairy godmother is useless because by mistake she doesn't have her proper magic wand. Never mind, read on.

The four students hold auditions in the school. A number of suitably outrageous new characters are introduced here: the outdoor activities master, Mr Camp; the music master, Mr Bumnote; the French master, M Camembert; plus the other pupils who are the chorus. This scene also sees the development of the boy / girl love sub plot between two of the four leading students. They secretly fancy one another but are too tongue tied to express their feelings.

Next comes the building of the stage for the show (loads of jokes and visual gags). Fairy godmother then discovers her stone eagle in the school grounds and asks for a volunteer to go to the land of the wicked witch and bring back a bottle of magic liquid which will bring the stone eagle to life. The leading boy and girl fall out over a misunderstanding as to who is to go and they part on bad terms. Lead boy goes off to the land of the wicked witch.

Lead girl discovers her misunderstanding, is full of remorse, sends love and protection to lead boy with help of elves. Lead boy has various perilous and humorous adventures with wicked witch, persuades her to turn to good, brings her back and she is reconciled with her sister, the Fairy godmother. Lead boy has box of tissues emotional reunion with lead girl.

The students' show goes on, big success, various theatre and film producers just happen to be in the audience (far fetched or what!), the four students are then rich and famous stage and screen stars. Fairy godmother then finds her proper magic wand and all realise that the four students have achieved their own success without the help of her original spell ('No wand, no spell, it's the laws. I might just as well have read the football scores').

Thus the four students achieved their own success by their own self belief. Stone eagle is freed and reunited with its eternal mate, the other eagle. At the end with all their freedoms won Fairy godmother and the other magic characters climb aboard the eagles and get back to work to do more good deeds, with a symbolic light shining down on a dark world from the eagles' wings: 'For we must catch the new moon rise, and dance across the starlit skies. We must go where we are needed, where the forlorn cry goes unheeded'.

And in the way of all fairy tales, all ends happily ever after.

PLEASE GO TO PAGE 2 - left click on page number above left

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