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Derek Derek Derek Derek Derek Derek is a comedic musical written by a newly up-coming playwright- called Micheal Anderson in 2012. He's a Canadian writer who studied at Simon Fraser University after deciding to pursue his life-long dream of producing plays. He had grown up acting in plays in his school, having even gotten the role of Sandy in Grease. Yes, Sandy. He loved it though and it created the spark he needed to light up for his career.

Anderson decided to write Derek Derek Derek after a conversation one night with his friends, and they had been talking about the myth of Bloody Mary.They had also joked about this myth and came up with 'Derek Derek Derek', named after one of their other friends who always seemed 'dead' due to his boring job as an office worker. But for Anderson this had his cogs turning the next morning as he saw their drawings and notes about this so-called silly idea. Anderson chose to turn this silly idea into a silly musical, and here we are today.

Derek Derek Derek is about a company who sold Beds, however their sales were dropping and they were in need of dire help. Their company was about to become bankrupt and they had no clue what to do- until Ryan, the main character and intern at the company, saw online a rumour about Bloody Mary's so-called long-lost brother. Derek. Supposedly Derek was supposed to be like some genie type of thing, but with a price since he was still Bloody Mary's brother- an evil spirit. He wasn't thinking straight so decided to follow the ritual for a joke and actually managed to summon Derek. In this ritual you had to say Derek Derek Derek, hence the musical's name. After summoning this demon and being told what he could do, Ryan realised he could actually save his company with these wishes so decides to take Derek to his work the next day. The musical continues with the company's wild and wacky responses and shenanigans towards Derek and his abilities. And the fact he's a demonic spirit.

You watch the relationship between Ryan and Derek grow and we see some romance spark between them, and they confess to each other during their song; "You are my only wish". However Ryan quickly learns what happens after he uses his last wish, and Derek disappears from him- leaving him alone and confused. The musical did not have a happy ending as Derek never came back, no matter how many times Ryan performed the ritual and researched other ways to try and bring him back.

Other songs from this musical include: "You'll come back a new man", Yes- I guess", Green tie, green noise(white shirt)","Bluebottle fly", "Meet me in the bathroom", "Today is not that day", "Down by the docks", "I like jazz!" and "Setting Sales". Anderson was able to compose most of these but with the help of his now ex-wife Linda McCotton. She had a long history of composing songs for musicals, and came to Canada to explore herself since she originally came from Brooklyn in the USA. And when she met Anderson at a workshop about writing scripts it was love at first sight for the pair. Until she later confessed to him that she had been having an affair with his sister, Annabelle. Despite this heartbreak, Anderson still decided to keep her on the credits for the musical as they now remain good friends.