Diana, Queen of People's Hearts
Diana Queen of People's Hearts is a new musical, with music and book written by Andrew P Partington. This musical is the story of Princess Diana, beginning with her engagement to Prince Charles as Lady Diana Spencer, and ending with her tragic death in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris.
ACT I
A whirl of publicity, rumour and excitement surrounds Diana Spencer’s engagement to Prince Charles. After discovering a bracelet, a gift from Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, labelled G & F for Gladys and Fred, Diana confides to her sisters her suspicions about their continuing relationship — they boisterously mock her, saying “Bad Luck Duch your face is on the teatowels now it’s too late to chicken out.” After they get married, on the Royal Brittania yacht for the honeymoon Diana challenges Charles about his long conversation on the satellite Inmarsat phone with Camilla; Charles denies there is anything going on and insists they are no more than friends.
After the honeymoon the fairytale couple go on a tour of Wales, however... (to be continued)
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DIANA QUEEN OF PEOPLE'S HEARTS - A NEW MUSICAL
This musical about Princess Diana is a sung-through musical with comedic and tragic elements, that treats with reverence and kindness the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, a woman whom many in England, Australia, and throughout the world viewed as a true heroine of the modern age. To many Diana was a person who was seeking and indeed found something greater than herself in her life, in her charity work, and in her love for her two sons.
Diana Queen of People's Hearts
LEADS
DIANA
CHARLES
SECONDARY CHARACTERS
CAMILLA
PAUL BURRELL
JAMES HEWITT
ROSA MONCKTON
MARTIN BASHIR
DODI AL FAYED
MINOR CHARACTERS
SARAH (Diana’s sister)
JANE (Diana’s sister)
MAID
REPORTER
ASTROLOGER
HASNAT KHAN
ROMANY MEDIUM
CHARLES SPENCER
HENRI PAUL
VERY MINOR CHARACTERS (>5 words)
DOCTOR
BIT PARTS (<5 words)
LES
THE QUEEN
HOST
OTHER MAN
BUSINESSMAN
OLD MAN
YOUNG MAN
HARRY (unspoken)
WILLIAM (unspoken)
CHORUS
CROWD
(GOSSIPS)
(PRESS AND PEOPLE)
(FRIENDS)
(NUNS)
(HOMELESS MEN)
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Andrew P Partington
Short Biographies
Andrew Partington…
…has been a composer since trying to write out a tune he made up on the electronic organ at age 7.
When he was fourteen he went to school in Seattle for a year while his father studied at the University of Washington, and learned trumpet from Rick Pressley, at that time the first trumpet in the Seattle Symphony.
After being part of the Music Scholarship program at Churchlands senior high school, Andrew studied composition at UWA and went on to become a musician, composer and writer, and has written much music and many musicals, songs, and a few books as well...
Samantha Ray
Andrew is working with Samantha Ray on this project; Samantha is a talented and experienced opera singer who toured Europe and worked regularly for billionaires, and who moves avante garde world fusion forward in the crossover albums she records with composer and producer Pete Ardron. https://onepagelink.com/samantharay
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