65 Brunswick Road : The Musical

When Tommy Shelby, Steve Knight's principal character in The Peaky Blinders, first rode onto our television screen, viewers were presented with a battle-scarred, but still relatively young veteran, from the Great War.

Meanwhile, in the neighbouring, real-life streets of Balsall Heath and Sparkhill, the Wareing family of eight children (and a musicallygifted 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 centred, ruthless stranger.

With a Good Old Days MC introduction, by Comedian, Entertainer and Papal Knight, Don Maclean, it features 12 of the author's newly composed songs.

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, plus shades of Oliver Twist, and we have an exciting new musical - just ripe for performance!