Malcolm Alan Sircom (3 August 1934 – 11 June 2008) was an English writer, musician, musical director and composer.
Biography
Born in 1934, Sircom was raised next to
Highbury, the old home of
Arsenal Football Club, of which he was an eager supporter. He was also a keen cricket player.
He attended
Cambridge University. After graduation, he began working in theatre and particularly old time
music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as variety. Perceptions of a distinction in Bri ...
where he met his first wife, actress
Patsy Rowlands. The couple were divorced in 1967. In 1973, he married his second wife, actress Judith Boyd.
In 1985, he authored the book and was responsible for creating both the music and lyrics for 'The Mr. Men Musical'. He began writing school musicals in the 1990s and it is for this that he is perhaps best known. His shows are published by "Musicline School Musicals."
Death
Sircom died in 2008 in
Derby, following a long illness.
Works
* ''Ernest'', 1959
* ''Pineapple'', 1959
* ''Pardon my Language'', 1963, staged by
Alan Vaughan Williams Alan Vaughan Williams (b. 23 May 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director and producer.
Williams began his theatre career in 1960 when he was appointed the company and stage manager of The Old Vic. In 1962 he became the resident producer ...
at the
Theatre Royal Lincoln.
* ''The Mr. Men Musical'', 1985
''Ebenezer'', 1992''Olivia''''Dream On!''''The Rocky Monster Show''''The Dracula Rock Show''* ''The Pinafore Pirates''
* ''Gel''
References
External links
"Musicline School Musicals", publisher of Malcolm Sircom's works
1934 births
2008 deaths
English writers
English male composers
English musical theatre composers
Music hall performers
People from Highbury
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
20th-century British male musicians
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