Shiny Bum Singers - Musicals
The Shing Bum Sings have performed a number of musicals writen by
Frankie Saymour, incorporating songs from their normal repertoire,
sometimes modified a little to suit the context, plus the
occasional new song. The scripts for these are in the boioks
below.
To find more information about these books, click on the image of
the cover or on the More Information link.
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Seize the Day
A Public Service Opera
Shiny Bum Singers
The Shiny Bum Singers’ mock opera, Seize the Day,
reports in song a single, horrendous 24 hour day in the
life of a group of public servants in the fictitious
Department of Everything Else. The crises range from the
routine (inter alia, a Minister sacked; a dodgy promotion;
an evacuation drill; an IT crash; a visit by the
auditors), to the unthinkable (a Prime Ministerial decree
prohibiting office romances and a forced Departmental
relocation – to Crookwell).
Format: A5, 48pp, illus. ISBN 978 1 876668 34 1. Price:
$5.00 (Australian dollars)
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A Four King Close Thing
A Not the Nativity Pantomime
Shiny Bum Singers
The Shiny Bum Singers have launched into pantomime,
featuring Angel Gabrielle, Three Wise Kings, a devoted
lesbian couple from modern day Canberra, a dingo and her
pup, King Herod the Horrid and his Thug, Corporal Bruiser,
in a time-travelling nativity drama. It can be counted on
to murder some of your favourite Christmas carols.
Format: A5, 36pp, illus. ISBN 978 1 876668 29 7. Price:
$5.00 (Australian dollars)
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Rampant Bureaucracy
A Public Service Musical Melodrama
Shiny Bum Singers
The Shiny Bum Singers’ second musical melodrama explores
the relationship between public servants and their
political masters. A range of sensitive areas are
ruthlessly probed, including penny-pinching and cut-backs,
politicisation and whistle blowing, the Freedom of
Information Act, the power of political advisers, and not
least, the vexing question of How Did the Octogenarian
Cross the Road. This book contains the full text of the
script and the words of the songs.
Format: A5, 32pp, illus. ISBN 978 1 876668 26 6. Price:
$5.00 (Australian dollars)
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Rodgering Hammerstein
A Mangled Musical
Second Edition
Shiny Bum Singers
Plundering well-known musical works for good tunes is an
ancient folk music practice. Here the Shiny Bum Singers
have gone one further, arranging their versions of songs
from a number of popular musicals into their own musical,
providing a heart-wrenching saga of life in the public
service, first performed at the National Folk Festival,
2011. This revised version, performed at the National Folk
Festival in 2015, is updated to reflect the latest
political leadership merry-go-round. The book contains the
full text of the script and the words of the songs.
Format: A5, 36pp, illus. ISBN 978 1 876668 31 0. Price:
$5.00 (Australian dollars)
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Shiny Bum Singers - Original
Songbooks
The songs from the first six songbooks were all included on the
Omnibum. But if you want any of these books they are still
available. You can buy them here.
To find more information about these books, click on the image of
the cover or on the book name link.
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The Tiny Shiny Bum Songbook, A5,
20pp. ISBN 1 876668 00 8. Price: $5.00 (Australian
dollars)
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It's Been a Long Year, A5,
40pp. ISBN 1 876668 02 4. Price: $7.00 (Australian
dollars)
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They'll Go Ape at Our Procedures,
A5, 36pp, ISBN 1 876668 03 2. Price: $7.00 (Australian
Dollars)
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Have You Been Told Lately?, A5,
28pp, ISBN 1 876668 04 0. Price: $5.00 (Australian
Dollars)
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Am I Not Busy Enough?, A5,
36pp, ISBN 1 876668 07 5. Price: $7.00 (Australian
Dollars)
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If We Could Talk to the Bureaucrats,
A5, 48pp, ISBN 978 1 876668 15 0. Price: $7.00 (Australian
Dollars)
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Shiny Bum Singers Collection - All six of the above
books for $30
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Silent Office, A5, 16pp.
ISBN 1 876668 10 5. Price: $5.00 (Australian dollars) -
a selection of Christmas carols drawn from the above six
books.
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