Tea With Oscar Brief Synopsis
The year is 1901, the 30th of November. It is a year since the death of Oscar Wilde.
Five of Oscar's friends have gathered for afternoon tea in the Edwardian drawing room of Ada Leverson's house to read some of his work and remember their extraordinary friend. Ada's young son requests that they read the stories from “The Happy Prince and other Tales”.
The five adults each have their own and very specific relationship to Oscar Wilde.
A charming celebration in words, music and song of some of Oscar Wilde's most loved stories - “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale And The Rose”, “The Selfish Giant” and “The Remarkable Rocket” - TEA WITH OSCAR is a musical high tea.
TEA WITH OSCAR has 6 characters that play all roles. Piano only, played by one performer. Cast includes a boy aged 8 to 10 years old.
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Tea With Oscar Show History
TEA WITH OSCAR was the first musical produced by Wing and a Prayer Productions, a company set up by Paul Keelan and Gary Young to produce small scale original music theatre in Australia.
The musical premiered at Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, on November 16, 2000 to coincide with the centenary of the death of Oscar Wilde. TEA WITH OSCAR is based on the children's stories of Oscar Wilde.
"Are these stories really intended for children? To me they seem to have been written for everyone who is or who has ever been a child in the complete sense of the word, and who is fortunate enough or wise enough to have preserved something of what, in childhood itself, is fortunate, wise and eternal" Micheal Macliammoir
The cast included Grant Smith, Jackie Rees, Toby Truscott, Darcy Bonser and the writers Paul Keelan and Gary Young.
A Double CD recording of TEA WITH OSCAR is available from Middle Eight Music.
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