“You’ve got worms – and this time they’re deadly…”
 
Loosely inspired by real events – O.K., very loosely – ‘Mongolian Death Worm: A Puppet Show Musical’ tells the story of Professor Roy Chapman Andrews, who is dispatched one day to the depths of Mongolia because his university have been suffering the effects of a meat shortage in the area. On arriving, Andrews discovers a village terrorised by a mysterious giant worm that has been stealing sausages, disrupting the local economy and occasionally eating people. He teams up with the Gobi Desert’s number one yodeling sheriff, and together they must devise a series of increasingly implausible schemes in order to catch the worm and bring him (her? it?) to justice.
 
Book, music and lyrics by Michael A. Grant and James Ure
Release date: 31st October 2020

1) Sausage Theft	0:30
2) The Ballad of the Mongolian Death Worm	3:40
3) Thunderstorm	1:04
4) World Without Sand	4:00
5) The National Anthem of Mongolia	2:37
6) Steakout	4:04
7) Say Hello To Yellow	2:40
8) The Trap	1:00
9) Every Hero Needs A Villain	5:11
10) Untitled Worm Song (Part I)	3:56
11) Untitled Worm Song (Part II)	0:38
12) Finale	8:53
13) Every Hero Needs A Villain (Trad Remix)	3:22

Watch the entire musical on YouTube:

Trailer 1

Trailer 2

Making ‘Mongolian Death Worm’
Michael A. Grant has written a series of blog posts taking an in-depth look at some of the most important aspects of bringing a puppet show musical to life:
 
The Orchestrations
The Puppets
The Swazzle
Recording the Music
 
The Mongolian Death Worm Monologues
In the breaks between filming, each of the puppet actors took time out to document their experiences working on the production…

Audio Commentary
Sit down with Michael A. Grant and James Ure – the masterminds behind the musical – as they swap anecdotes over a box of pina colada-flavoured drink…
 

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