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The cast of Footrot Flats – A Stage Musical range in age from 12 to those in their 70s. Gathering a cast to play 18 characters has been a big undertaking for director Michelle Cliff, but Te Puke ...
"Being a musical, the director has to make sure all elements - acting, singing and dancing - are equal." Footrot Flats plays at 8pm March 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20 and 21 with a 2pm matinee March 8.
Thirty years have passed since Musical Theatre Gisborne staged Footrot Flats and now director Theresa Campbell is in search of performers to do it all again. This time though, the musical based on ...
POPULAR New Zealand '80s comic strip Footrot Flats springs from the page in a barnstorm of song and dance this March. Presented by Laughing Horse Productions and Roleystone Theatre and based on ...
The Twin Town Players musical production of Footrot Flats was a knockout with around 300 people attending over the three performance nights at the Rylstone Memorial Hall. Director Pam Innes did a ...
It was a fixture in the daily papers in the 1980s and 1990s, spawning a movie, a musical and a theme park. Now a collection of comic strips about a Kiwi farmer and his border collie is set to ...
Hardcover edition of Footrot Flats comic strip to sell for more than $1000. It was a fixture in the daily papers in the 1980s and 1990s, spawning a movie, a musical and a theme park.
Iconic New Zealand cartoonist and creator of Footrot Flats Murray Ball has died aged 78. ICONIC cartoonist Murray Ball, ... The series also spawned a musical and a theme park in New Zealand.
Cartoonist Murray Ball, the creator of Footrot Flats, has died aged 78. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's and had been nursed at his Gisborne, New Zealand, home for some time.
Ball was the creator of the famous Footrot Flats cartoon strip, that was made into a movie in 1986. Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale was New Zealand’s first feature-length animated film. Ball ...
Hardcover edition of Footrot Flats comic strip to sell for more than $1000. It was a fixture in the daily papers in the 1980s and 1990s, spawning a movie, a musical and a theme park.