Stop The World I Want To Get On

Sam S. Shubert Theatre, David Merrick, in association with Bernard Delfont presents Anthony Newley in "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off," with Anna Quayle, Jennifer Baker, Susan Baker, a new-style musical, book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, setting and lighting by Sean Kenny, musical supervision by Ian Fraser, musical director Milton Rosenstock, orchestrations by Ian Fraser with David Lindup, Burt Rhodes, Gordon Langford, John Broome's choreography restaged by Virginia Mason, directed by Anthony Newley.

Readers of the Daily Telegraph will be fondly aware of the combination of wistful nostalgia, robust no-nonsense good sense and appalled outrage that characterises its "brilliant" (Ian Hislop) Letters page, which if it did not exist would have to be invented. But what of all the letters that were just slightly too wacky, too off the wall, too politically incorrect, to make it for publication? Now the Telegraph gives their authors the stage at last: baffled, furious, occasionally paranoid, and from this hilarious selection of the best we can see that no, none them is alone...

Looking at the bewitching night sky observing all the beautiful stars its easy to imagine about all the other worlds that are out there. Its possible to have other planets exactly like ours in a parallel universe. Daily decisions are made from small seemingly insignificant ones to life changing ones. How often are life choices reflected and people wonder what if? The first book of a trilogy. Georgie was a daydreamer often wondering whether shed made the right choices in life. Her marriage to Steve had hit a low point and they are living apart. Their son Jake is always trying to bring them back together. Georgie had often wondered whether she ought to have taken up the chance to live in America rather than marry Steve. By chance she sees a double of herself on American television which coincides a business trip she is to attend there. When there she challenges her double. She discovers that Gia her lookalike is from a parallel universe and picked up her life. The women try to work out a way to get back to their respective lives. Gias planet is the same as earth but changed purely by someone taking a different thought and action. Their adventure is fraught as they swap lives, Georgie stays in America to live the life she regretted giving up, soon realising it wasnt meant to be. Gia goes to England and faces temptations of Steve who is the equivalent of her husband Sen, who she desperately misses. Both women have their ups and downs and are challenged constantly with being caught out and trying to work out who they can trust.

Finding purpose in life can be a mission itself. One of my missions is to help others to find the peace and inner healing they are looking for. That is why I have written the story of my vision—to convey to others that there is hope in God, and that life on Earth has eternal meaning and purpose.

(Richmond Music Folios). 11 vocal selections from the musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley featuring: Gonna Build a Mountain * I Wanna Be Rich * Once in a Lifetime * What Kind of Fool Am I? * and more.

Graham Hutchins fell in love with trains at an early age. As a youngster growing up in the railway town of Te Kuiti, he would gaze on the steaming monsters as they thundered through the King Country. Before long, train travel became more than a pastime, more than a fascination: he was hooked. As he recounts in this book, he was just ten years old when he undertook a journey alone on the night train to Auckland. From then on he travelled as much as he could, and later as a young man searched out the smaller forgotten lines to experience what they had to offer. Stop the Train! I want to get on describes his experiences travelling throughout New Zealand on regular passenger trains, railcars, goods trains and work trains. The routes he traverses include the Central Otago line, the Gisborne Railcar, the Southerner to Invercargill, a mixed train through rural Taranaki, a workers’ train from Greymouth on the Rewanui Incline, the Endeavour to Hawke’s Bay, the Silver Fern Railcar and more. Many services have now been axed, but he vividly recalls their delights, from the scenery outside to the often primitive conditions inside and the people he encounters along the way. He also tells many engaging tales about the history of the lines and what makes each so distinctive. Sometimes alone, on other occasions with his wife Jenny or his mate Russell, he conveys the unique experience and sheer pleasure of rail travel in every corner of New Zealand, from the 1950s to the present day. ‘Some people take to the bottle, others go shopping. I jump on a train, if I can find one, and wait for the swish and sway to take me away. Away from the down times. For me the diversion comes as much from the rhythm as the passing landscapes from the train window.’ Graham Hutchins remembers the incredibly varied journeys he has taken by train throughout New Zealand. They have given him a lifetime of pleasure. Night trains and The Northerner The Midland Line: Christchurch to the West Coast The Gisborne Railcar The Central Otago Line: Alexandra to Dunedin The Picton–Christchurch Railcar The Silver Star: Auckland to Wellington Greymouth to Rewanui and back By mixed train on the Stratford to Okahukura Line Hamilton to Mount Maunganui The Silver Fern Railcar on the Main Trunk Line The Endeavour: Wellington to Napier The Southerner: Christchurch to Invercargill The Northern Explorer