Post by Redwine on Apr 18, 2008 19:21:46 GMT -5
So, Deb and I just put up a new entry over on
our sister site, under "Stage". If you scroll way, way (and I mean WAAAAAY down), you will see something new listed for a play called "Captain Stirrick", from 1982, performed at the Cottesloe, with the then-Children's Music Theatre Company.
So if the year is right, this puts him at about fifteen years old. We'd had a strong case that he'd been in the Company from 1981-1983 but never had the actual name of a play verified. There it sat in the "unverified" category until I took Deb's "Landscape with Weapon" programme up to read today, and there, right under his bio -- was the name of this long-ago project, noted there as the last time he'd appeared on the Cottesloe stage! How we we miss that??!
So off goes Dr. Content, never so happy as when she has a shred of evidence in hand to verify...
The evidence is circumstantial for Tom's participation, apart from that programme bio, but he was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre from 1981-1983, according the the NYMT website. It seems clear that this original work by the company's then-director Jeremy James Taylor and David Scott was pretty strong stuff. Based on ballads of the day, it was a dark "opera" on the case of Ned Stirrick, described by director Taylor as "a psychopathic juvenile murderer who suffered from schizophrenia and finally went mad in prison". "Oliver!" it wasn't.
After a 1985 performance the Company, apparently due to pressure by parents concerned about its suitability for "Children", changed its name to "The National Youth Music Theatre", the name it retains to the present day.
Apparently there is a 1982 film version of "Captain Stirrick". (Tom's name is not included in the cast list published by the BFI. Has anyone seen it??)
We have to assume he was in other productions during those years, but for now, they remain "Little Mysteries"...
our sister site, under "Stage". If you scroll way, way (and I mean WAAAAAY down), you will see something new listed for a play called "Captain Stirrick", from 1982, performed at the Cottesloe, with the then-Children's Music Theatre Company.
So if the year is right, this puts him at about fifteen years old. We'd had a strong case that he'd been in the Company from 1981-1983 but never had the actual name of a play verified. There it sat in the "unverified" category until I took Deb's "Landscape with Weapon" programme up to read today, and there, right under his bio -- was the name of this long-ago project, noted there as the last time he'd appeared on the Cottesloe stage! How we we miss that??!
So off goes Dr. Content, never so happy as when she has a shred of evidence in hand to verify...
The evidence is circumstantial for Tom's participation, apart from that programme bio, but he was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre from 1981-1983, according the the NYMT website. It seems clear that this original work by the company's then-director Jeremy James Taylor and David Scott was pretty strong stuff. Based on ballads of the day, it was a dark "opera" on the case of Ned Stirrick, described by director Taylor as "a psychopathic juvenile murderer who suffered from schizophrenia and finally went mad in prison". "Oliver!" it wasn't.
After a 1985 performance the Company, apparently due to pressure by parents concerned about its suitability for "Children", changed its name to "The National Youth Music Theatre", the name it retains to the present day.
Apparently there is a 1982 film version of "Captain Stirrick". (Tom's name is not included in the cast list published by the BFI. Has anyone seen it??)
We have to assume he was in other productions during those years, but for now, they remain "Little Mysteries"...