novel Children of the Dark People by Frank Dalby Davison
Premiere
27 December 1957: National Theatre, East Melbourne, VIC
The Bunyip and the Satellite is a 1957 Australian stage musical written by
Barry Humphries and
Peter O'Shaughnessy. It was based on Frank Dalby Davison's children's novel Children of the Dark People.[1]
The Bulletin called it "well formed, well and sometimes wittily written."[2]
^"SUNDRY SHOWS TALKIES THEATRE MUSIC ART Stage and Music", 105 volumes : illustrations (chiefly coloured), portraits (chiefly coloured) ; 30-40 cm., The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., 79 (4067), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 22 Jan 1958 [1880],
ISSN0007-4039, nla.obj-695309270, retrieved 4 August 2023 – via Trove