65 Brunswick Road: The Musical

The Peaky Blinders is a new musical based on the real-life streets of Balsall Heath and Sparkhill. It features 12 of the author's newly composed songs and a Power Point display linked by five Edward Elgar compositions. The show features a diverse range of characters and shades of Oliver Twist and is ripe for performance.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 122 pages
Publication date: 19 August 2022
Publisher: Brewin Books

When Tommy Shelby, the primary character in the Peaky Blinders series, made his debut on our television screens, viewers were introduced to a battle-scarred but still relatively young veteran of the Great War. Meanwhile, in the neighboring real-life streets of Balsall Heath and Sparkhill, the Wareing family of eight children, along with their musically gifted mother, Lilian, struggled to cope with their invalid father's return to 65 Brunswick Road, fresh from the hell-hole of Gallipoli. Harry Senior, the author's grandfather, having contracted meningitis, returned home as a self-centered, ruthless stranger. Presented with a Good Old Days MC introduction by Comedian, Entertainer, and Papal Knight, Don Maclean, the film features 12 newly composed songs by the author. A Power Point display runs throughout, linked by five Edward Elgar compositions—the composer and Shirley's maternal Great Grandfather, Eustace Baylis, having been schoolboy friends. Introductory pages are followed by the main script, interspersed with song scores. All scenes are slide-illustrated to correspond with the Power Point Disc (included). Music for the show's five a cappella songs is in the Appendices. Add a diverse range of characters, along with shades of Oliver Twist, and you have an exciting new musical—just ripe for performance!

Dimension: 297 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781858587431