The Magic Basket
The Magic Basket is a musical written in 1940 for children by Australian composer Alfred Wheeler. 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
- 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
- 1940 Lauriston Girls' School, Melbourne
- 1940 Wyalong, New South Wales
- 1940 Mount Barker, South Australia
- 1943 Cloncurry, Queensland
- 1943 Adelaide, South Australia
- 1944 Benalla, Victoria
- 1945 Port Pirie, South Australia
- 1945 Newcastle, New South Wales
- 1946 Adelaide
- 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales
- 1946 North Lismore, New South Wales
- 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales
- 1947 Broken Hill
- 1947 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
- 1947 Lismore, New South Wales
- 1947 Shepparton, Victoria
- 1947 Grafton, New South Wales
- 1948 Mackay
- 1949 Wyalong, New South Wales
- 1949 Southport, Queensland
- 1949 Scone, New South Wales
- 1950 Nanson, Western Australia
- 1950 Hay, New South Wales
- 1950 Maddington, Western Australia
- 1951 Launceston, Tasmania
- 1951 Sunshine, Victoria
- 1951 Burnie, Tasmania
- 1952 Maryborough, Queensland
- 1952 Braidwood, New South Wales
- 1952 Adelaide, South Australia
- 1952 Grafton, New South Wales
- 1953 Southbrook, Queensland
- 1954 Kygole, New South Wales
- 1954 Broken Hill, South Australia
- 1954 Townsville, Queensland
- 1954 Lithgow, New South Wales
- 1955 Parramatta District Primary Schools, starring Bob Winley as Mr Moonshine and Elaine Marriott as The Queen
- 1957 Penrith, New South Wales