"Sepia Serenade"

"Sepia Serenade"  A musical comedy by Tony Breeze  8f & 8m & children & dancers  ISBN 9781872758193  £7.00 each  Royalties £50pp
The local musical theatre group are about to begin one of their performances when an old granddad appears, with his grandchildren, clutching an old fashioned magic lantern.  He wants to show them some slides of his early life but the group are naturally not interested.  Then a strange thing happens - there's a suspicious power cut so the group is in trouble.  Very coincidentally the old man's magic lantern doesn't need electricity and gives out light so they decide to use his lantern and to build a show around it.  Slides are shown of his early life while the group perform stories and songs around them.  The show is a success and everyone is pleased until they learn another interesting fact at the end.