Adam Taylor, Rogues and Vagabonds

Read more...

____________

Employing a powerful blend of dance, physical theatre, storytelling and song, The Scenic Route's new family musical comedy, You Beautiful Ewe, tells the story of Brad, the new ram on the block, grappling with the weighty task of keeping a crooning wolf at bay, and Floss the young ewe who stands by her ram when everything gets…well…hairy.

With a zealously knitting farmer's daughter and a jealous older sister, Baabs, to contend with, the journey is not always smooth, but baahber - shopping sheep telling the story will have children and adults alike enchanted.

You Beautiful Ewe actually started life as a fifteen minute adult musical about foot and mouth disease written by composer and lyricist Nick Pegden, with peers, during his music degree. He revisited the piece years later and together with book writer Margaret Tice reworked the story and score into a quirky family-friendly fairytale.

In early 2008 The Scenic Route came on board with Tammy Mendelson joining the writing team.
Several new baahber-shopping numbers, additional twists and turns of plot and a New York wise-guy cockerel later, the first full version of You Beautiful Ewe was born.

You Beautiful Ewe premiered to sell out houses at 'The Etcetera Theatre' in August 2008 as part of the Camden Fringe Festival. To our delight it received an overwhelmingly positive response. So, we revived the show in 2009, this time at 'The Roundhouse'. The piece had been developed further and returned, minus our New York cockerel, but with additional numbers and even more from the baahber-shopping sheep.

We hope to revive the full show for a small scale tour in the near future.

____________

_________________