M is for… Musicals, Mousical, and More!
It’s probably no surprise at all to readers who know me even slightly through this blog or my previous blog that I love musicals. The Sound of Music. Camelot. My Fair Lady. Annie Get Your Gun. The Music Man. Mame. Fiddler on the Roof. I also love a middle-grade novel called The Great American Mousical, by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton. The idea for Mousical came to Julie one day when she was in her backstage dressing room before a performance. A mouse skittered across the floor, and Julie started thinking about all the mice that must inhabit the lower reaches of an old theatre — and she asked herself, “I wonder if they have a theatre, and put on plays of their own?” The Great American Mousical is how Julie and her daughter Emma answered that question. But wait! There’s more!