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The strangest thing about this musical is why Mike Batt, to all intents and purposes its onlie begetter, chose Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem for his story. For one thing, it does not have much of a plot, and the second half is inevitably something of a repetition of the first. One feels that Carroll himself wrote it without any particular aim in mind save to be nonsensical and fantastical. It has fallen to others to dig out the sub-text and hidden meanings, one of whom is Batt himself.
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