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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:

  1. Overture - Orchestra
  2. Sailing for a New World - Christian, Fryer & Bounty's Crew
  3. Setting Sail / Sky Was Clear - Bounty's Crew / Cabin Boy
  4. Six Weeks Late - Bligh and Christian
  5. Pumpkin - Fryer, Bos'n & Crew
  6. The Lash - Crew Member
  7. Cape Horn - Cabin Boy & Crew
  8. Doldrums - Fryer, Elphinstone
  9. Failed Cape Horn - Bligh, Christian
  10. The Letter - Bligh, Fryer, Elphinstone
  11. He Was Born Nowhere / Three Weeks From Paradise - Bos'n, Bligh, Christian and Crew
  12. Land Ho! - Bligh, Christian & TahitianS
  13. Tahiti - Christian, Miamiti & Tahitians
  14. Observe These Men - Bligh
  15. Slow We Moved - Cabin Boy
  16. Captain's Table - Bligh, Fryer & Elphinstone
  17. Hell - Christian & Mutineers
  18. Mutiny - Bligh, Christian, Loyalists & Mutineers
  19. Return to England / We Prayed For a Ship - Cabin Boy, Heywood, Millward, Bos'n & Fryer
  20. Prisoner at the Bar - Fryer
  21. Bligh's Speech
  22. I'll Go No More A-roving - Christian
  23. Finale - Company

 

Discography

Concept Cast Album starring David Essex & Frank Finlay - Mercury MERH 30