Ein Musical mit CD-An entertaining musical in pantomime style easily adapted to suit your resources. The story of Ali Baba has been updated. Ali delivers pizzas and stumbles across the garage where Mustafa Shower (the dirtiest crook in Bagdad) has stashed his stolen goodies. Opportunities abound for singing dancing and lots of jokes! Duration 90 minutes but easily adapted. Vocal/piano score - For Junior and Middle schools. The CD provides professional backing tracks for the whole show.

Acis and Galatea HWV 49a1st versionHandel set the myth about the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid’s Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata Aci Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 (1708) (BA4068) the masque Acis and Galatea HWV 49a (1718) (BA4039) and finally the pasticcio-like serenata Acis and Galatea HWV 49b (1732) (BA10700).This species of stage work was related to the early eighteenth-century English masque by virtue of its choral numbers and straightforward formal design and to the Italian serenata due to its use of one voice to a part in the choruses. In the England of Handel’s dayit was given a multitude of generic names: besides “masques” such works were often called “little operas” “English operas” or “pastoral operas” (the term “serenata” had not yet entered English parlance). Handel himself did not specify the genre of Acis and Galatea in his autograph score and probably as a result uncertainty arose among copyists printers and performers as to the work’s proper designation for it has come down to us with a confusing array of generic titles. Handel wrote the piece for James Brydges (1674–1744) Earl of Carnarvon and later Duke of Chandos at whose country estate in Cannons the composer spent the years 1717 and 1718.- Urtext of the Halle handel Edition- Full score (BA4039) and vocal score (BA4039-90) available for sale- performance material (BA4039-72) available for sale