Musical Script just cpmpleted!!!

My friend and I have just completed a full length musical production, which we have the confidence in believing it could be a great entertaining performance.
However, being our first piece, we have no idea how we can actually go about having it performed.
We need to know where to take it, about copywriting, registrations, sponsers, finance, costs, and plus everything that is nessessary to get this play happening.
If anyone has any information, (in Perth), we would greatly appreciate it.
Thankyou.

Congratulations!

I'm afraid I can't help you, but am after similar information regarding organising a performance as I am interested in putting on a Cabaret.

I would be thrilled if you would take the chance to pass on any useful info that you come across. I am also from Perth and understand the limitations of the city. :(

I'd be really interested to hear about auditions etc when you get it off the ground. Will you post them on this site?

DON'T pay anyone for copyright. You have it already.
DON'T pay to have it published now as it will surely change.
DO approach groups which stage this type of show.
DO form your own group if others won't stage it.

I was in your position 30 years ago. I formed a group, staged the musical and now have some 50 titles and my plays and musicals are staged around the world. Fox Plays is just me. Persistance is the key. If you want marketing tips have a look at my web page at foxplays.com

Keep at it.

Cen Fox

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Thankyou for your kind words.

I was sent a website that may provide some useful information. Go to foxplays.com (Cen Fox), which may help you.

Once we have the production underway, we'll be defiantly posting it on this site!!

Thank you for your help, however, I'm not quite sure on 'how' we already have copyright.

We'll certainly take a look at your site and keep persisting to get the show up and running.

Once again thanks, and if you ever have new information, please be sure to keep them coming!!

For all the legal type answers try Stages - the playwright guild. I don't know the number but it will be in the book they are located in Leederville.

Leanne wrote:
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> For all the legal type answers try Stages - the playwright
> guild. I don't know the number but it will be in the book
> they are located in Leederville.

There are plenty of useful links on the Links page of this site that will point you to the information you seek.

You can find contact for details Stages on their website.



It may also be worth checking with the Australian Writer's Guild



The best place to explore copyright issues in Australia would probably be the Australian Copyright Council. Here's a link to their comprehensive selection of information sheets. 

http://www.copyright.org.au/page3.htm

Cheers
Grant

You will find that the legal side of things will be the least of your worries.

Funding the production is your prime concern.

Rehearsal Space, Venue expenses, Technical Equipment, Costuming, Sets etc are the main hurdles.

But even these are not insummountable if you have the nerve AND believe in your own work.

I am presently in Rehearsal for Dr Koppelius an original Rock/Horror Musical. If you want to see a self-funded musical in preparation why don't you drop by.

Malcolm Crisp
Director.

MEDIA RELEASE


Dr Koppelius
A Production by Malcolm Crisp
Designed by Jo Marsh
Original Music by ZENOMORPH

After two sell out seasons last year the group that brought you 'an elektra' and 'A Radical Re-Interpretation: Chekhov's The Seagull' are commencing their 2001 season with 'Dr Koppelius' an original Post-Modern Rock/Horror Musical. Working with ZENOMORPH one of Perth's most creative rock/fusion bands, the E.T.A. Hoffmann's story of Dr Coppelia and his robot doll Olympia (best known from the ballet Coppelia) has been updated into the age of cloning and digital technologies.

Dr Koppelius is a story of how life is scientifically created and socially programmed. It is a love story mutated into a horror story by an evil genius who is himself the product of a world of sinister manipulations. This rock musical particularly explores the cultural philosophy of French thinker Jean Baudrillard in regards to how our knowledge of the world is generated by representations or copies of 'the real' and how society seduces us into accepting these 'simulations' as acceptable versions of reality. A cross between the Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Matrix, and a lecture on French Critical theory, 'Dr Koppelius' is a dark and sexy investigation into the what we are and why society wants to keep us that way...

What partially explains the success of this group is that they have fostered a cross-over audience between regular theatre goers, students of 'cultural studies', and the local music set who have, up to now, had little opportunity of hearing the best Perth bands outside the pub circuit. The group has also earned the reputation of not retreating from taking intellectual or physical challenges - both previous works found controversy by questioning current theatrical conventions and containing scenes of nudity and explicit imagery.

Season commences at the East Amphitheatre Beaufort Street Highgate February 28th until March 3rd then transfers to the Subiaco Theatre Centre March 7th until March 10th

All performances Wednesday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Performance duration 75 minutes

Tickets through BOCS.

Information phone 041 328 7297

Thanks for your reply.

We would love to come and see your production in rehearsal, as it would be great to see the 'inside' of what goes on.
Just write here the adress where it's taking place, and an appropriate date and time for you.
Regards
Lynette and Amanda.

Thankyou to everyone who replied in regarding this.
Your information was very useful!!
regards, Lynette and Amanda.