The Adventures of Doctor Hoo: The Keeper of Tarquin - The Musical

Wingz Productions will be holding Auditions on Monday 19th March 2007 from 7:45pm at 35 Bocking Avenue Campbelltown for their next production, “The Adventures of Doctor Hoo: The Keeper of Tarquin – The Musical”. The writer of the show David W. Owens is a local playwright with over 17 years writing, directing & acting experience and is a cousin of the 1960’s British rock singer Billy Fury. The music for this show will be mainly based in 1980’s but may vary. The Show is a Sci-Fi take off that will be a cross between the 1960’s TV series Doctor Who & Star Trek and a bit of Star Wars thrown in. Parts in this Musical will be written for the successful auditionees. Rehearsals for this production will start in June 2007 and the production will be staged in August/September 2007 at the Town Hall Theatre, Queen Street, Campbelltown. For more details call (02) 4627-1550.

Does the title of your musical suggest you don't have copyright approval for this from the BBC? Also, it's 1960s. Not 1960's.

Either 60s or 60's are acceptable, so long as you use one or the other consistently. Check your Australian English style guide (sold at most bookstores) The Prompt Copy Store www.store.thepromptcopy.com Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.freewebs.com/puppetsinmelbourne Treading the Boards www.treadingtheboards.thepromptcopy.com

Apostrophes shouldn't be included, simply because when you spell it out, there isn't an apostrophe whatsoever.

As I said, check you Australian English style guide. You may be an 'apostrophe nazi', but I have done a Dip of Arts in editing and proofreading. I quote: "In the past, an apostrophe was often placed before the s, but there is no grammatical need for it, and the practice is now uncommon." (page 170, Style manual; for authors, editors and printers. 6th Edition, 2002. Publishers: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is the industry standard publication for editing and proofreading in Australia) Note, that it says 'uncommon', not NEVER USE. (On further inspection, on the same page, the guide does state: "Do not use an apostrophe when presenting decades in numerals-hence 1990s no 1990's". However, as time has gone on, editors and writers are turning more and more to text that uses as little punctuation as possible, and I would say that as suggested above, the use of an apostrophe would have been used and has been phased out. However, I doubt that any average reader or writer would be aware of the difference, and the use/non-use of an apostrophe doesn't really affect the clarity of a phrase) ... But let's stop bickering about punctuation and move on to relevant topics, like the possibilities of a Dr Who spoof. The Prompt Copy Store www.store.thepromptcopy.com Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.freewebs.com/puppetsinmelbourne Treading the Boards www.treadingtheboards.thepromptcopy.com

You should be able to assume that a publication is correct, however it's not. For example, the Macquarie Dictionary has c**t as the colloquial term for female genitalia. I assure you it's not. It is only a negative term. No one goes to the doctor complaining of a c**t problem, I'm sure. I'm a professional proof reader and apostrophes are not an "either/or" situation. (Unlike choosing 2 words for proof reader over the compound word). I do applaud you, however, for providing such detail in your follow up message. Yes, let's talk about the possible copyright problems in calling his show Dr Hoo.