The Magic Basket

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The Magic Basket is a musical written in 1940 for children by Australian composer Alfred Wheeler.[1] The story involves a group of children whisked to a magical land on the Moon, where they help the Sandman to recover his bag of sleep-dust from the Goblin. The children are transported in a basket.

Musical numbers

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  • Oh isn't it fun to live in the moon?
  • Whatever can we do
  • I sweep the sky
  • My basket brave and I
  • Derry derry down Oh!
  • Galloping, galloping up in the sky
  • The sandman
  • Tippetty tippetty toe
  • Goblins bold are we
  • If you will be a meddlesome Matty
  • The deed is done
  • Bong! goes the gong
  • One song before we part
  • Lullaby

Productions

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  • 1940 Lauriston Girls' School, Melbourne (premiere)[2]
  • 1940 Wyalong, New South Wales[3]
  • 1940 Mount Barker, South Australia[4]
  • 1943 Cloncurry, Queensland[5]
  • 1943 Adelaide, South Australia[6]
  • 1944 Benalla, Victoria[7]
  • 1945 Port Pirie, South Australia[8]
  • 1945 Newcastle, New South Wales[9]
  • 1946 Adelaide[10]
  • 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales[11]
  • 1946 North Lismore, New South Wales[12]
  • 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales[13]
  • 1947 Broken Hill[14]
  • 1947 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales[15]
  • 1947 Lismore, New South Wales[16]
  • 1947 Shepparton, Victoria[17]
  • 1947 Grafton, New South Wales[18]
  • 1948 Mackay[19]
  • 1949 Wyalong, New South Wales[20]
  • 1949 Southport, Queensland[21]
  • 1949 Scone, New South Wales[22]
  • 1950 Nanson, Western Australia[23]
  • 1950 Hay, New South Wales[24]
  • 1950 Maddington, Western Australia[25]
  • 1951 Launceston, Tasmania[26]
  • 1951 Sunshine, Victoria[27]
  • 1951 Burnie, Tasmania[28]
  • 1952 Maryborough, Queensland[29]
  • 1952 Braidwood, New South Wales[30]
  • 1952 Adelaide, South Australia[31]
  • 1952 Grafton, New South Wales[32]
  • 1953 Southbrook, Queensland[33]
  • 1954 Kygole, New South Wales[34]
  • 1954 Broken Hill, South Australia[35]
  • 1954 Townsville, Queensland[36]
  • 1954 Lithgow, New South Wales[37]
  • 1955 Parramatta District Primary Schools, starring Bob Winley as Mr Moonshine and Elaine Marriott as The Queen
  • 1957 Penrith, New South Wales[38]

References

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