AustLit

'Maverick Musicals grew out of the very real need for specifically written, large cast shows for Australian teenagers. Simon Denver (then seventeen) and Ian Dorricott, a high school music teacher, wrote a send-up of everybody's favourite super hero - Superman. They wrote 'Man of Steel' in 1976 for a large group of teenagers looking for a script to showcase. (The Middle Stagers; the youth theatre group of La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, Australia.). ... Seeing the demand, Simon, his sister Gail and mother Jo (also a writer) formed the small publishing business, concentrating on writing, producing and then distributing quality, large cast shows with music for Australian teenagers. Later, the business became a company, with Gail Denver as owner. As editor, Gail sought out and commissioned musicals relevant for young people from other writers (the Denver/Dorricott team continuing all the while) and [by 2006] ... Maverick Musicals has more than 60 musicals and plays in print, with their titles selling and being performed throughout Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Asia, the USA and Canada .... Over the years, [the firm] has expanded the range of titles to include plays and musicals for adult amateur groups' (Adapted from the publisher's website: http://www.mavmuse.com/about_us.asp sighted 30/08/06).