was £5,000 The book was by Alan Burke and Peter Benjamin, Benjamin also wrote the lyrics and the music was by Peter Stannard. Burke appeared "by courtesy of the ABC" who were employing him as a director. The music was conducted by Tommy Tycho. Kevin Cameron did the sets, Bill Robinson did wardrobe and Vernon Best was operations manager. Ken Shadie did audio. Betty Pounder was borrowed from JC Williamsons to do choreography. Michael Cole had been fired from Lola Montez and was hired by the writers for this to make it up to him. According to Ailsa McPherson, who worked on the show as a script assistant, during the live broadcast the actor who played Colonel Paterson accidentally omitted over a page of dialogue in an earlier scene. The other actors continued because it was live, but it meant later plot points would be confusing. After the show went to air, they re-shot the scene and re-inserted it into the tape and kine. Songs Overture (orchestra) "He-ho, you'll never go back" - sung by male chorus of convicts at beginning "Send for Me" - sung by Wendy Blacklock "I'm On My Way" - sung by Wendy Blacklock "Bells Suddenly Ringing" - love song sung by Michael Cole "The Grog Song" - sung by taverners at The Silver Bottle "How Could I See?" - sung by Blacklock and Cole "The Whole Shebang" - sung by three convicts (Chris Christensen, Nat Levinson, Michael Walsh) "You Walked By" - sung by Blacklock and Cole "So Much More" "Our Own Bare Hands" "The Argument" "Sometimes" Finale Reception The Beacon Research Company estimated that 250,000 adults and 10,000 children watched the broadcast. More than 100 people rang in to congratulate on the broadcast on the night it aired. Critical The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote the musical "had an entertaining and beguilingly tuneful premiere in a smoothly organised live production" despite "the lack of colour and space in which create spectacle and the effects which properly, and uniquely-belong to the stage." However: Nine numbers in a 75-minute show is pretty fair value, and the... tunes and lyrics were fluent, neatly turned and literate. Equally important. they arose naturally from the situations arranged by the... book, and always took the story-line, and characterisation, a step further. And at least one song, "Bells Suddenly Ring" is a possible hit tune. Moreover, the show proved