The Magic of the Musicals The Magic of the Musicals The Magic of the Musicals was a UK concert series, produced by Flying Music, that regularly toured the UK in the 1990s and 2000s, initially starring Marti Webb and Mark Rattray with Mitch Sebastian, Paul Robinson, Lucie Florentine and Dawn Spence. It was recorded for album release and television broadcast at the Bristol Hippodrome on 21 June 1992. The album, on CD and cassette, and VHS video was released on 28 September 1992. The show first toured in spring 1991, but its popularity led to a further tour in early 1992 and another in the
The Magic Roundabout was broadcast just after "The Magic Roundabout". This story was later republished in print from Bloomsbury's 1998 book "The Adventures of Brian". In 1998, Thompson's stories were published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc as a series of four paperbacks, "The Adventures of Dougal", "The Adventures of Brian", "The Adventures of Dylan" and "The Adventures of Ermintrude" with forewords by his daughter Emma Thompson. For years, the series had re-runs on Cartoon Network, and was later moved to its sister channel, Boomerang. These airings had almost all the episodes re-narrated by Nigel Planer, much like the Channel 4 airings, though some episodes