CONDA Award for Salamora
The prestigious CONDA Award was presented to Rick Turk for the Newcastle Production of Salamora.
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CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION from Dalgety Public School for 'Salamora'
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Certificate of Appreciation
Presented to Rick Turk and CCP Productions
Presented to Rick Turk and CCP Productions
What Kulnura Public School says about 'Beat Around The Bush'
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Dear Rick,
Just a brief note to say thank you very much for providing us with the opportunity to produce such a wonderfully vibrant and spectacular performance.
The students loved the show and relished the opportunity to become superstars for a night.
They enjoyed the fun storyline and will never forget Diamond Jim and Lizzy Frillard!
The package as a teaching resource worked very well for us. The backing tracks are top class and we very much appreciated all the thoughtful extras, linke the song sheets and the helpful production hints.
We wish you every success with your Go to Show products; they out to be very popular amongst the busy teaching fraternity.
Yours sincerely
Roisin Pengelly - Class Teacher
Maureen O'Neil - Principal
Kulnura Public School
Just a brief note to say thank you very much for providing us with the opportunity to produce such a wonderfully vibrant and spectacular performance.
The students loved the show and relished the opportunity to become superstars for a night.
They enjoyed the fun storyline and will never forget Diamond Jim and Lizzy Frillard!
The package as a teaching resource worked very well for us. The backing tracks are top class and we very much appreciated all the thoughtful extras, linke the song sheets and the helpful production hints.
We wish you every success with your Go to Show products; they out to be very popular amongst the busy teaching fraternity.
Yours sincerely
Roisin Pengelly - Class Teacher
Maureen O'Neil - Principal
Kulnura Public School
What Cundletown Public School says about 'Lizard Gully'
"We would like to thank Rick Turk and Warwick Moss for their wonderful musical Lizard Gully. It was a great shame they were not able to make it to the show as they were both overseas.
The audience absolutely loved it, and the children had an exciting time rehearsing and performing.
We hope we will be able to stage another of the CCP musicals in the not too distant future.
Thank you again."
Wendy Charles
Music teacher and Vice-Principal Cundletown Public School.
The audience absolutely loved it, and the children had an exciting time rehearsing and performing.
We hope we will be able to stage another of the CCP musicals in the not too distant future.
Thank you again."
Wendy Charles
Music teacher and Vice-Principal Cundletown Public School.
What the press says about 'Salamora'
Jewel of a production
Salamora is a delightful school holiday entertainment and not just for the kids. Mums and dads will equally enjoy the tongue-in-cheek telling of its simple South Seas island adventure, the strong performances by mainly teenagers, and the eye-catching costumes and sets.
This premiere production is a fine showcase for writer Rick Turk's script and songs, a catchy mixture of calypso beat (the ensemble's That's The Way It Is), country and western (Captain PJs Another Peaceful Sunset) and lyrical ballad (heorine Rebecca Collins's beautifully sung Please Mr Lamplight).
The dastardly Richard, nephew of the former Salamora governor, steals a precious diamond. Cargo Boat Captain Paul (PJ) Jones is blamed but unmasks the villain with the help of the ex-governor's daughter.
Lindsay Carr's narrator sets the backgrounds of events and characters, with the latter giving spirited performances.
Patrick Coull is a smoothly hissable villain who makes no secret of his feelings of superiority over the other islanders. Zac Garred was a dashing Captain PJ at Friday's show (he shares the role with Wayne Forbes) and Rebecca Collins has the plucky resourcefulness needed of a heorine.
Indeed, every performance is treasurable, with director Mark Spencer ensuring that the audience keeps smiling.
Salamora is a delightful school holiday entertainment and not just for the kids. Mums and dads will equally enjoy the tongue-in-cheek telling of its simple South Seas island adventure, the strong performances by mainly teenagers, and the eye-catching costumes and sets.
This premiere production is a fine showcase for writer Rick Turk's script and songs, a catchy mixture of calypso beat (the ensemble's That's The Way It Is), country and western (Captain PJs Another Peaceful Sunset) and lyrical ballad (heorine Rebecca Collins's beautifully sung Please Mr Lamplight).
The dastardly Richard, nephew of the former Salamora governor, steals a precious diamond. Cargo Boat Captain Paul (PJ) Jones is blamed but unmasks the villain with the help of the ex-governor's daughter.
Lindsay Carr's narrator sets the backgrounds of events and characters, with the latter giving spirited performances.
Patrick Coull is a smoothly hissable villain who makes no secret of his feelings of superiority over the other islanders. Zac Garred was a dashing Captain PJ at Friday's show (he shares the role with Wayne Forbes) and Rebecca Collins has the plucky resourcefulness needed of a heorine.
Indeed, every performance is treasurable, with director Mark Spencer ensuring that the audience keeps smiling.
What the Newcastle Herald says about 'Salamora' & CCP
'Good as He Themes'
By Ken Longworth
You might not know the name Rick Turk but you will almost certainly know his music.
He wrote the theme music for ABC TV shows Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Gardening Australia and the current 7:30 Report .
Further back, in the 1980s, his music accompanied Perfect Match, It's a Knockout, Celebrity Squares and Family Feud, among others. He also wrote music for dozens of TV commercials.
Nowadays Rick is concentrating on a venture he began during an 11-year stint working in television in Britain. His company, Creative Children's Productions (CCP), produces educational and musical packages for children that combine traditional elements and new technology. The centrepiece of each musical package to date has been a stage musical intended for young audiences and suitable for child actors. The package for Salamora: The Adventures of Captain PJ, for example, includes a picture book, the show's music on a CD, a copy of the play text and an interactive CD-ROM that offers learning challenges for young people.
Rick is producing these packages out of a music studio at Bucketty, midway along the narrow valley road from Peats Ridge to Wollombi. Rick settled there after returning from Europe in 2002.
He's helping to mount the first major production of Salamora: The Adventures of Captain PJ at the DAPA Theatre in Hamilton. The tale has the title seafarer being wrongly accused in tropical island paradise Salamora of stealing a diamond which legend tells stops a volcano from exploding.
Mark Spencer, a Warners Bay teacher, actor and director familiar with CCP's educational packages, approached Rick about staging Salamora as a school holiday show. It will be performed from September 26 to October 5 with a teenage cast and adult actor Lindsay Carr as narrator. While working in Britain in the 1990s for Australian production company Grundy and later for Pearson TV (which bought Grundy), he began work on a spoof of pantomimes called Mind The Gap. The adult-oriented show brings tgether a lot of panto characters in a story about three princesses who hold a talent contest to select their husbands. There will be a small-scale production of the show in the Central Coast hinterland soon.
He began his writing with Lizard Gully, a children's story co-authored by Warwick Moss, and has two more children's musicals on the way: Shalimar, the story of a young girl who finds herself in an alternate world peopled by characters such as knights and talking cactus plants, and Fantatopia, the tale of two children who are carried by water to a perfect world in the middle of the earth.
Both have a message for young people. Fantatopia's, for example, lies in the fact that the perfect world is being poisoned by polluted water draining from the earth's surface.
CCP is also branching out into computer-oriented books. Rick is building an art studio alongside the music studio at Bucketty so computer graphics can be put together at his home.
Reviews for 'The Kookaburra Who Stole The Moon'
“May I express our delight at the recent performance of ‘Kookaburra’ at our school. The children and staff were enthralled by the quality of the dance, narration, lighting and the superb orchestra.
In my whole school career I doubt if I have ever seen a better production. We shall remember it for a very long time.”
Cheynton Primary School.
“Utterly rapt attention was the order of the hour among several hundred 4 to 10 year olds watching this bewitching blend of music, mime and storytelling by the Australian REM Theatre, performing ‘The Kookaburra Who Stole the Moon’....with the help of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra plus a didgeridoo they combine a fun introduction to the various instruments’ sounds .. expressively mimed by the dancer the antics of each animal – from, snake, emu, wombat & kangaroo – are accompanied by its own signature music. Rarely have I seen so many small people so thoroughly and happily engrossed”.
The Scotsman
By Ken Longworth
You might not know the name Rick Turk but you will almost certainly know his music.
He wrote the theme music for ABC TV shows Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Gardening Australia and the current 7:30 Report .
Further back, in the 1980s, his music accompanied Perfect Match, It's a Knockout, Celebrity Squares and Family Feud, among others. He also wrote music for dozens of TV commercials.
Nowadays Rick is concentrating on a venture he began during an 11-year stint working in television in Britain. His company, Creative Children's Productions (CCP), produces educational and musical packages for children that combine traditional elements and new technology. The centrepiece of each musical package to date has been a stage musical intended for young audiences and suitable for child actors. The package for Salamora: The Adventures of Captain PJ, for example, includes a picture book, the show's music on a CD, a copy of the play text and an interactive CD-ROM that offers learning challenges for young people.
Rick is producing these packages out of a music studio at Bucketty, midway along the narrow valley road from Peats Ridge to Wollombi. Rick settled there after returning from Europe in 2002.
He's helping to mount the first major production of Salamora: The Adventures of Captain PJ at the DAPA Theatre in Hamilton. The tale has the title seafarer being wrongly accused in tropical island paradise Salamora of stealing a diamond which legend tells stops a volcano from exploding.
Mark Spencer, a Warners Bay teacher, actor and director familiar with CCP's educational packages, approached Rick about staging Salamora as a school holiday show. It will be performed from September 26 to October 5 with a teenage cast and adult actor Lindsay Carr as narrator. While working in Britain in the 1990s for Australian production company Grundy and later for Pearson TV (which bought Grundy), he began work on a spoof of pantomimes called Mind The Gap. The adult-oriented show brings tgether a lot of panto characters in a story about three princesses who hold a talent contest to select their husbands. There will be a small-scale production of the show in the Central Coast hinterland soon.
He began his writing with Lizard Gully, a children's story co-authored by Warwick Moss, and has two more children's musicals on the way: Shalimar, the story of a young girl who finds herself in an alternate world peopled by characters such as knights and talking cactus plants, and Fantatopia, the tale of two children who are carried by water to a perfect world in the middle of the earth.
Both have a message for young people. Fantatopia's, for example, lies in the fact that the perfect world is being poisoned by polluted water draining from the earth's surface.
CCP is also branching out into computer-oriented books. Rick is building an art studio alongside the music studio at Bucketty so computer graphics can be put together at his home.
Reviews for 'The Kookaburra Who Stole The Moon'
“May I express our delight at the recent performance of ‘Kookaburra’ at our school. The children and staff were enthralled by the quality of the dance, narration, lighting and the superb orchestra.
In my whole school career I doubt if I have ever seen a better production. We shall remember it for a very long time.”
Cheynton Primary School.
“Utterly rapt attention was the order of the hour among several hundred 4 to 10 year olds watching this bewitching blend of music, mime and storytelling by the Australian REM Theatre, performing ‘The Kookaburra Who Stole the Moon’....with the help of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra plus a didgeridoo they combine a fun introduction to the various instruments’ sounds .. expressively mimed by the dancer the antics of each animal – from, snake, emu, wombat & kangaroo – are accompanied by its own signature music. Rarely have I seen so many small people so thoroughly and happily engrossed”.
The Scotsman