An interesting anecdote

Well, I've only ever been in one stage musical. I was in Year 8, and I wanted to bunk some classes, so I signed up to be an extra in the school show. I played the role of a political protestor, with some placard or other. At Burnside, the music students were discouraged from being in the school shows, which was interesting. I think that was some kind of beef with the drama department. I got interested in all the musicals stuff via Michael Bell, and the occasional show tunes that the choirs sang. So thanks to that, obviously, I'd seen someone that I knew and wasn't all that much older than me make a movie musical in Christchurch when I was a teenager: it seemed like a realistic goal. This countrywide scope that I want to tell in Shipwrecked seems to have people all bent out-of-shape for some reason, though... I mean, imagine Goodbye, Pork Pie done the other way around with BLERTA-style songs and that's fairly close to Shipwrecked on Islands.