CHAPTERS

Part 1
– From Birth to Brisbane to Broadway

🇬🇧 GENESIS
     🇺🇳 Military is gallivanting in my DNA
🇦🇺 THE LAND DOWN UNDER
🇺🇸 THE MAGICAL LAND OF WONDERMENT
    🇺🇸 God Save the Queen
    🇺🇸 I Was a Stupid Hero
    🇺🇸 Domestic Gallivanting
    🇺🇸 Flaws, starring Bruce
    🇺🇸 Hello, Musical Theatre!
🇺🇸 HOW I BECAME AN ARCTOPHILE
🇺🇳 RETURNING TO THE LAND OF OZ
     🇦🇺 Is there a doctor in the house?
     🇦🇺 Family split
🇦🇺 MY LAST FORMAL EDUCATION
🇦🇺 ESCAPISM IN MY TEENAGE LIFE
     🇦🇺 I wanted to dig up old bones
     🇦🇺 Gaylivanting in Centralia
     🇳🇨 Too many naked boobies
🇦🇺 BECOMING A THESPIAN
     🇦🇺 The Boy from Snowy River
     🇦🇺 Queens Land Utopia
🇦🇺 MY TEMPORARY PIVOT AWAY FROM THEATRE
     🇦🇺 Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
🇦🇺 COMING OUT (WITH A DOOR SLAM)
🇦🇺 MY BEAT TO A DIFFERENT DRUM
     🇦🇺 Historical perspective of an insane time
     🇦🇺 A Twisted Theatrical Twist
     🇦🇺 Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
     🇦🇺 Shaken by the Odds, but not decapitated
     🇦🇺 Male stripper in a go-go bar
     🇦🇺 Climbing Out of the Rabbit Hole
     🇦🇺 What happens on tour, stays on tour
     🇺🇸 Sidestepping Hope for the future
     🇺🇸 Ageless and evergreen
     🇦🇺 Picking myself up, dusting myself off…
     🇦🇺 All’s well that ends well
     🇸🇬 The fine art of perception
🇺🇸 HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
    🇺🇸 Drag of a Hollywood Premiere
    🇺🇸 Diplomatic Relations
🇨🇦 CANUCKLAND v.1
     🇨🇦 Inching closer to Broadway dreams
     🇦🇺 Dirty Family Laundry
     🇨🇦 My first experience with the sleeping dragon
🇨🇦 MEETING MY DREAM
     🇨🇦 SkyDome: A Plan, Clusterfuck & Aftermath
     🇨🇦 Giving birth to Broadway on the internet
🇬🇧 MERRY OLDE ENGLAND
     🇬🇧 Saturday, Sunday, Monday… in real life
     🇬🇧 We are such stuff as dreams are made on
     🇬🇧 Rumbling to Loch Ness & Rambling in Sheffield
     🇬🇧 A Countess, Dr. Who, a gay priest & a President…
     🇪🇸 The Spanish / Moroccan jaunt
🇨🇦 THE GREAT WHITE NORTH v.2
     🇺🇳 DJ and my first gaylivant together
     🇦🇺 The original Priscilla bus of the outback
🇷🇺 TO RUSSIA VIA THE SOVIET UNION
🇨🇦 THE LAND OF MAPLE SYRUP & POUTINE v.3
     🇨🇦 Old Bones & Relics
     🇨🇦 Opera on Steroids
🇺🇸 RETURN TO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
     🇺🇸 Birth of Online Ticketing
     🇺🇸 Failed attempt of a sensible investment
🇺🇸 HI-HO, THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
     🇺🇳 Cruising for a sunny get-a-way
     🇺🇸 Love Reunited
     🇺🇳 Relax! Cruising Asia to gaylivant down under
     🇺🇸 San Francisco here we come
     🇦🇺 Daddy Dearest
     🇺🇸 Our world came crashing down
     🇨🇦 Merging families
🇨🇦 GRAND NORD BLANC DEUXIÈME ACTE v.4
     🇪🇺 Gaylivanting on land and on sea
     🇺🇸 Tap Tap Tapping our troubles away
     🇺🇸 My father 2.0
     🇨🇦 Be Careful What You Wish For
     🇨🇦 Family 1st Meeting & LollyGag party
     🇺🇸 The Plays the Thing

Part 2
– From Broadway to Beijing & Beyond

🇨🇳 THE REAL ORIENTAL EXPRESS
     🇨🇳 Commute to (and from) Beijing
     🇨🇳 Happy Buddha, Chief Gaylivanter in da house!
🇨🇳 PROCEED TO BEIJING, DO NOT PASS GO
     🇨🇳 Imaginary Alter Ego
🇨🇳 A COMPREHENSIVE, AUTHORITATIVE
      AND DETAILED EXPERT ANALYSIS
      OF THE STATE OF CHINESE QUALITY
      THEATRE BUSINESS
🇨🇳 CRASH COURSE IN THE REALITY OF
      CHINESE LIVE ‘ENTERTAINMENT’
     🇨🇳 Laundering Military Missile Sales
🇨🇳 MY 1ST GRAND TOUR OF CHINA
     🇨🇳 Good Concept, Bad Execution
🇨🇳 THE GREAT ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI
     🇨🇳 Very Red Tape: Visas, Licenses & Bureaucracy
     🇨🇳 The Birth of Shanghai Cultural Square
     🇺🇸 The Mouse that Roared
🇨🇳 CHINA’S COMING OUT PARTY
     🇨🇳 My Mum’s coming up party
     🇨🇳 Everyone’s milestone parties
     🇨🇳 Shanghai Expo on steroids
🇨🇳 WEIRD & ECCENTRIC LIVING CONDITIONS
     🇨🇳 A complicated country of contradictions
     🇨🇳 “It’s just a little fog”
     🇨🇳 Insane Nationalism = Brilliant Propaganda
     🇨🇳 China vs. the World
     🇨🇳 Sharp Eyes / Social Credit / Chinternet
     🇨🇳 Brainwashing Mania aka (re) education
     🇨🇳 Tis the season, not Merry
     🇨🇳 Things to put in your mouth
     🇨🇳 Things to not put in your mouth
     🇨🇳 Intellectual property ‘belongs to the people’
     🇨🇳 Not faked?, likely banned, increasing popularity
     🇨🇳 4,000 years of superstitions
     🇨🇳 Mastering Chinglish
🇨🇳 SHOWS, TOURS & MORE FAKERY
     🇨🇳 Keynotes to full rooms of nobody listening
     🇨🇳 Oily liars and a load of hot gas in Langfang
     🇨🇳 The Bishop Gaylivant
     🇨🇳 Miracles of Terracotta Warriors Non-Achievement
     🇨🇳 Olympic Style Circus Madness
     🇰🇷 And it’s not just Rocky in China!
     🇨🇳 But it’s mostly China: Big Bird in Flight
     🇨🇳 Greenlights to State Owned Enterprises
     🇨🇳 It’s a small world after all
     🇨🇳 Falling on deaf ears
     🇨🇳 Just Say Anything… Just Say No
🇨🇳 BRINGING ORDER FROM CHAOS
     🇺🇳 Mental Health Escapes from the Mainland
     🇦🇺 Craving down under family connections
     🇪🇺 The last days of carefree luxury travel.
     🇬🇧 Driving home history in Ye Olde England
     🇺🇸 Shanghai to Hollywood for Shanghai Mousevilleland
     🇹🇷 Turkish Tea & Tear Gas
     🇵🇭 A Beached White Whale and bucket of Beer
     🇹🇭 Bangkok… And The World’s Your Oyster
     🇹🇭 Trippy boyz, booze and booby’s
     🇺🇳 Cruising through Asia, again
     🇰🇷 Between a ROK and a hard place
     🇰🇭 Put on some rouge, Khmer and be gay
     🇻🇳 Good morning, Vietnam again
     🇮🇩 Bizarrely gnarly Bali
     🇳🇿 Cruising New Zealand & Australia
     🇦🇪 Breakfast in Dubai, lunch in Kuwait, dinner in Cairo
     🇪🇬 Cruising the Nile from a Swimming Pool
🇦🇺 LIFE’S CURVEBALLS
     🇨🇳 Fear, Isolation, Observation and Patience
     🏴‍☠️ My retirement plan is dreamy isolation
     🏁 Believe in Science! Off to Mars
🇨🇳 AFTERLIFE WITH A TINGE OF MADNESS
     🇨🇳 COVID-19: The Sequel
🇺🇳 PROCLAMATION FOR MY ASSASSINATION

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