Another musical sample of my work - but I need to explain this one ...
Yes, it's from an unfinished musical called "Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory". I wrote this ten minute preview last year as an entry for Eden Court Theatre's Highland Quest For A New Musical. I had, at that stage, decided to start promoting myself outside of Ireland and had undertaken to start submitting musicals for competitions across the UK (by way of getting my work infront of the right people). The Highland Quest was the first such competition on my list.
They wanted a musical set in the highlands, but the show could be about anything at all - so I set myself the challenge of writing a show with the unusual title "Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory". You see, I didn't want to win the competition as that would mean having to write the full-length show, which I knew I would never have time to do given my busy workload. Hence the controversial title and even more controversial content. I just wanted my name to be noted by the industry-related judges so that they might remember me the next time I got in contact with them.
Would you believe it? Despite my best efforts to write the kind of show that was memorable but unsuitable, "Molly Wobbly" was shortlisted! As it happened, my workload in February was such that I was unable to attend the necessary workshops in Inverness and so had to withdraw from the competition during the second stage - so we'll never know if a musical about breasts might have won a national UK prize.
This preview was written in a weekend and the recording took one day (with another day to mix it). I didn't have time to get a full cast together so some of my friends perform on it, one or two of whom are musical theatre people anyway. I couldn't pay them for performing, so instead I gave each of a copy of the preview to take home, which brings me to my point ...
A few of the performers have been less than discreet with the material and as a result "Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory" has been turning up in offices and classrooms and on PCs and iPods across the north of Ireland. Teachers, students and secretaries are plugging headphones into their PCs and listening fertively in corners. I'm becoming cult and now people are asking me when I'm going to write the full show.
Truthfully, I don't have time. And I can't see me clearing enough space in the diary to write a full musical that no one has commissioned, so "Molly Wobbly" may forever remain in its current form. Unless, some day, someone with influence hears it and commissions the rest of it. So, as if to verify the show's cult status, I have decided to post it here. Be warned - it's 10 minutes long exactly, and not office friendly (unless you work in a very liberal office). I hope you can find 10 minutes in a corner somewhere to listen to it ... and I hope you laugh. Do let me know.
WARNING - THIS PREVIEW CONTAINS SWEARING AND REFERENCES TO BOSOMS.
