Sheila Wilson: Primary School Musicals & How To Survive Them!

Music For Schools

An entertaining handbook of practical advice for teachers and helpers.

Sheila Wilson is the composer of over fifty much-loved musicals and has produced many of them collaboratively for schools an churches. This book is a light-hearted collection of her experience, insights and advice, as well as a practical guide and support for anyone rising to the challenge of staging a children's musical. It includes an invaluable time-line and checklist.

"Some teachers have produced more school musicals than they can remember, and are as brilliant at organising them as their children are at performing them. Respect! This book isn't really for you. Others are new to the task, and I believe you'll find the book and its insights very helpful. The rest of us are somewhere in between, and have been knwon to feel weak when faced with a large number of over-excited children and over-tired helpers. This book's for us! I wouldn't expect everyone to agree with everything, and of course circumstances and resources differ, but I hope you'll add your own thoughts in the margins, and that the time-line might also be a life-line if you feel you are drowning. I wish you all the best for your Primary School Musicals, and hope that you will not only survive, but thrive.

I dedicate this book to hardworking teachers everywhere, who find the enery and inspiration to produce a musical production in which their children will shine liek stars."

        Sheila Wilson