The Tale Behind The Tale

Pirates, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ben Gunn’s Favorite Recipe The Tale Behind the Tale of Winking Kat’s musical adaptation of “Treasure Island” Several years ago, I had the pleasure of being commissioned to write a musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure tale, “Treasure Island”. Along with composer, Terence Levitt, we first created a… Continue reading

A musical adaptation of the familiar fairytale from eastern Europe Have I heard this story before ? Many of the stories we read or hear have been handed down to us by centuries of storytellers. The Dancing Princess is a perfect example of this tradition. The version of this often told story that Winking Kat… Continue reading

The Tale Behind the Tale of Winking Kat Tales’ podcast of Purrlie Where did you get the idea for this show? That is often the question people ask me whenever we performed the show. Like many of the shows I’ve written, the idea came from a request by teachers and librarians for a show about… Continue reading

The Tale Behind the Tale of… Not the most likely story for a musical When I told people I was going to adapt Hans Christian Anderson’s story of “The Nightingale’ into a musical for young audiences, I received some pretty strange reactions. People who were familiar with the story often commented, ‘But it’s such a… Continue reading

The Tale Behind the Tale of: Aesop’s Fable of “The Town Mouse & The Country Mouse” The fable about the simple Country Mouse who visits her city cousin is one of the most familiar tales from the collection of stories by the Greek storyteller, Aesop. When writing the adaptation of this story, I decided to… Continue reading