HISTORY:
Some may remember this thoroughly enjoyable stageshow, I did! Way back in 1991 (Theatre Royal, Sydney) An fun musical, quite silly but very danceable (if the management will let you get out of your seat!) about these guys travelling around in space and coming across a 'strange' planet inhabited by a couple of castaways some years earlier ... weirdness and silliness follow
The full synopsis (probably better explained too!) is outlined inside the front booklet. Interesting that the 'future' in this musical is set in 2009 (when the castaways ended up on the Forbidden Planet) and 2024 when they were discovered on the planet.
Based very loosely on The Tempest (Shakespeare), meaning that some well known extracts from that play are dropped into the dialogue (two beeps or not two beeps) but with the backbone of the story being from the original film 'Forbidden Planet' screened in the mid 1950's
I think there may have been other more recent productions too, this album is however a recording of the original 1991 Australian performance.
Full credits are of course on the album artwork however here is an outline of the cast:
Captain Tempest - Rory O'Donoghue
Dr. Prospero - D.J. Foster
Ariel - Tony Harvey
Cookie - George Washingmachine
Science Officer - Jacqui Hall
Bosun Arras - Glen Hogstrom
Navigation Officer - Jonathon Mahler
Miranda - Julie Williams
Ensign Gil Laktik - Rodney Dobson
Ensign Herb E. Vor - Elliot Wilshire
Ensign Ursula Major - Tina Harris
Ensign Rick De Scale - Tom Lycos
RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET - Stageshow (Musical)
Festival Records
Cat# TVD 93354 RMD 53354
1998
Australian release
CD case, front cover and rear inlay are all in good condition.
CD media is in good condition, visually inspected under a bright white halogen light source and I can see NO scratches on the media. I then played the ENTIRE release, every track, and there are NO issues with playback at all.
TRACKS: Wipeout, It's A Man's World, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Vibrations, Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week, I'm Gonna Change The World, Teenager In Love, Young Girl, She's Not There, All Shook Up, Gloria, Who's Sorry Now, Tell Her, Robot Man, Shake Rattle And Roll, Go Now, Only The Lonely/The Young Ones, We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place/Wipeout (Reprise), Hey Mr Spaceman, Turn Me Loose/Monster Mash/Great Balls Of Fire, Heard It Through The Grapevine, Johnny B Goode/Bye Bye Johnny
NOTE:
I was unable to find an Australian video recording of the song "Gloria", one song (of many) that had the audience jumping in their seats!
This video is from an English production
