Musicals

People Like Us

“a classy production with all the fizz and pop of a fire in a fireworks factory “

My transition into the public arena began at Peter Taylors iconic Bar “Dorothy’s Sister,” the set Of People Like Us. The show is loosely based on my own coming out there.

BIANCA, nearly 50, is a builder. His family has yet to learn of the obsession in her feminine side. The story leads us through the coming out process as she tells her startled family that she wants to be a woman, and is becoming engaged to a transgender person.

SHEENA is mid thirties and has been “out” for a long while. She has a past – she’s an ex hooker. At the ball her ex pimp JAKE attempts to get her back on the game to pay a debt to him, but she just met Bianca and things are going well. Can she cheat – just once, to pay the debt?

The musical extravaganza is led by VERA our Drag Queen MC the owner of Dots. Vera plays a key role in sorting out her patron’s problems as well as advising the audience on G.L.B.T matters.

Our journey is an emotional sine wave our lead characters go from the joys of new love, through the heartbreak and vilification of being different. They learn that freedom comes when one is true to oneself.

2 Acts Run - 100 Minute’S - 11 Actors.
Premier: Pumphouse Theatre Feb 2016.

People Like Us is great. It will empower my community and that’s incredibly important to me. It will educate too, in a gentle way. Most of all though, it will entertain and what more can we ask from a night at the theatre.

Great First Outing With Happy Endings Gone Mad, www.theatrereview.org.nz, Lexie Matheson, 18 Feb 2016

Scream

A ROCK MUSICAL

The band is on stage forming the ensemble.

Scream is a musical play highlighting the plight of people of all genders living on the streets of a city. It shows the plight and lack of support and constant harassment of street and GLBTQI+ people.

Our lead, a streetwise 40-year old woman is the tacit leader of a group of homeless people living under a bridge in the city. They work for each other, watching each others back, often hooking to survive.

The council send a young handsome engineer to check out the bridge for redevelopment, He falls for Becky, a young trans girl. When her quest for gender reassignment surgery is quashed and the group is evicted from the bridge, and her boyfriend finds out she is trans. Becky desperately takes matters into her own hands with an attempt to emasculate, leaving her in a critical condition.

A local Publican makes the call and gives the group a home , rent free, which, according to council regulations is unfit for occupation. They would rather have people living on the street. There is a fight with the council to change things. With continued help from the publican the homeless group is eased back into society.

Two Acts. Cast – 4 male – 3 female, one plays 3 parts.

Here are a few sample tracks from Scream, recorded before a live audience at the Pitt St Theatre in Auckland.