Peter Stattersfield, composer of musicals – exercise 2
Peter Stattersfield gave this interview in December 2008 describing how he first came to compose music for a musical.
1 Where does Peter Stattersfield mention having been before he arrived in Newcastle upon Tyne?
2 How does he describe the People’s Theatre?
3 How does he describe his own rôle at the People’s Theatre?
4 Why did nobody know who had written the Victorian melodrama which was found?
5 What phrase expresses ‘exactly what is required / suitable‘?
6 What event was the production at the People’s planned to celebrate?
7 How does the composer express ‘instantly appealing and memorable melodies‘?
8 Which two words make it clear that he was not trying to produce something very elaborate?
9 What did he want the audience to do?
10 What are "Easy Does It" "The Singing Winds" and "Don’t You See That Would Be Your Undoing?" "I’d Like To Polish Them Off" and "Every Time I Look At You"?
11 What did Ken Appleby and Bill Scott think of the tunes Peter had composed?
12 How does Peter express the idea that he just a bit better than the famous song-writer Lionel Bart?
13 What phrasal verb used of the melodies means ‘became popular‘?
14 How is Sweeney Todd’s song described?
15 Who is playing the music in the background?
16 How does Peter describe the songs he wrote?