Mutiny!
Musical; libretto by Richard Crane; Music by David Essex
Piccadilly Theatre, London 22 July, 1985. (526 perfs)
Synopsis
Based on the novel “Mutiny on the Bounty”, this was the story of Captain Bligh commanding HMS Bounty. Repelled by his cruelty, and attracted to the idyllic life they had observed on the Pacific island of Tahiti, 18 crewmen headed by Fletcher Christian staged a mutiny. Bligh and a few men loyal to him were set afloat in a small boat, and the mutineers settled in Tahiti, subsequently burning the Bounty to avoid detection. After many years the law caught up with them.
Musical Numbers:
- Overture - Orchestra
- Sailing for a New World - Christian, Fryer & Bounty's Crew
- Setting Sail / Sky Was Clear - Bounty's Crew / Cabin Boy
- Six Weeks Late - Bligh and Christian
- Pumpkin - Fryer, Bos'n & Crew
- The Lash - Crew Member
- Cape Horn - Cabin Boy & Crew
- Doldrums - Fryer, Elphinstone
- Failed Cape Horn - Bligh, Christian
- The Letter - Bligh, Fryer, Elphinstone
- He Was Born Nowhere / Three Weeks From Paradise - Bos'n, Bligh, Christian and Crew
- Land Ho! - Bligh, Christian & TahitianS
- Tahiti - Christian, Miamiti & Tahitians
- Observe These Men - Bligh
- Slow We Moved - Cabin Boy
- Captain's Table - Bligh, Fryer & Elphinstone
- Hell - Christian & Mutineers
- Mutiny - Bligh, Christian, Loyalists & Mutineers
- Return to England / We Prayed For a Ship - Cabin Boy, Heywood, Millward, Bos'n & Fryer
- Prisoner at the Bar - Fryer
- Bligh's Speech
- I'll Go No More A-roving - Christian
- Finale - Company
Discography
Concept Cast Album starring David Essex & Frank Finlay - Mercury MERH 30