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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

Bella Bostock

Bella Bostock is the portly Matron of the Houndside County Orphanage. Her kitchen is her kingdom, where shelves groan with her preserves and pickles and the warm glow of the Cracklewood fire dances off the well-scrubbed pots and pans that hang from the rafters.

She has a heart of pure gold, but a tongue like a whack from a wooden spoon! And she needs both to keep the boisterous orphan houndling’s in her big-bosomed care, in line. A kiss here; a clip over the ears there; all served with lashings of hearty Spotty Russock stew, and motherly love. The wee houndlings adore her and fear her in good measure!

Bella, divorced and reaching her frayed prime, still feels the stirrings of love for the curmudgeonly old Orphanage Headmaster, Rolph Flannegan.

Maybe her matronly charms and Crippleberry pie will win him over?

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

A K Ruddegan

If the smoke stacks on the Port Alveridge Fish Cannery are a symbol of Houndish oppression then A K Ruddegan is certainly the epitome of all that is evil and corrupt in Alveridgea.

His full title, as emblazoned in gold plate on his palatial office door, is ‘Mayor & Colonel A K Ruddegan, President & CEO’

Diminutive in statue, but a giant in avarice, A K Ruddegan has eyes of cold obsidian and a bushy moustache carefully manicured by a cut-throat razor he keeps in his waistcoat pocket.

He surveys his corporate kingdom from his seventh floor factory office. Here he plots and schemes the Hounds enslavement, from a richly upholstered scarlet leather armchair whilst spearing goldfish with his manicured claw from a cut crystal bowl, swallowing them whole.

His greed is legendary, his power total. But there’s a Revolution coming down the road that not even Mayor Ruddegan and all his thuggish Tom Cats can stop!

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

Celia Crème

Celia Crème is a high fashion goddess, (and high fashion is not something hounds have ever aspired to.) Her signature fabric, a sinuous combination of cashmere and silk she calls ‘cashmilk’, can be seen draped over the languorous forms of felines everywhere. Her ravishingly coiffed face appears regularly on the covers of tabloids and magazines and is instantly recognized and admired by all in Catside.

When telling of her association with Lonely Dog, “It was at the orphanage here on Catside, many years ago now, one forgets the exact date, but then one doesn’t like to dwell on those times.” “We became companions, strange as that may seem, a kitterling and a houndling. He was a perfect gentleman even then, so strange for a hound.”

In spite of all the fame and fortune her fashion empire afforded her, Celia Crème still carried in her soul the memory of those barefoot years in the Catside orphanage.

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

Rolph Flannegan

Rolph personally tutored Arthur Stout in the manly art of playing the 5 string Alveridgean Guitar. He is now over 80 years old and is often found at the local pub (Marvo’s Bar and Grill) sharing stories of his early influence on Lonely Dog. “His first chords were the ones I taught him! Now that’s an umbilical chord that can’t be broken! He plays guitar now exactly as I showed him then.”

He still lives in the old red-bricked building that housed the Alveridge County Orphanage. Even now it remains impressive, in a Gothic style, despite its current forlorn condition. The orphans have long since vacated the dormitories and the tired old schoolroom hasn’t heard a houndlings laughter in many years. His residence is in one small corner of the rambling building, where he is and always has been a confirmed and committed bachelor.

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

Lonely Dog

Arthur Snout, better known as Lonely Dog, is orphan who grew up on the working-class side of Port Alveridge. As he discovered the blues, gritty barbed-wire blues, leaking from the clubs and honky-tonk bars, music became his lifeline and his destiny.

Bullied and misunderstood, Lonely Dog was hounded from town and became a refugee in his own country. Some called him a troubadour, others a troublemaker, but all he cared about was the guitar on his back and his one true love. It is said Lonely Dog’s songs became legends long before he did, but he caught up and the whole world listened.

Lonely Dog is represented in over 40 paintings, in drawings, book illustrations and sculptures. He is pictured as a child as well as an adult in different outfits, with different accessories (ie sunglasses, guitars etc) and with different expressions.

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

Mick the Bass

‘I’m a Trumaine Hound And I’m Trumaine Proud True to my Buddies True to my Sound”’

Mick the Bass cuts a distinctive figure, either onstage with Lonely and the Sunshine Boys, or leaping from the pages of the Catside Fashion Magazines.

Born in Trumaine, Mick bears the distinctive black and white markings peculiar to hounds who inhabit that remote part of the world.

It’s that kind of remote aloofness that gives him his cool, chic stage persona. Onstage with his Trummer Bass slung low from the shoulder of his full-length green velveteen coat, and shod in his staggeringly chunky platform shoes, he’s the powerhouse of the band.

He surveys the audience from behind his trademark square framed glasses and winks at the swooning houndettes and cats! Mick’s throbbing beat will continue to set hearts throbbing wherever this stylish shoes will take him.

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LONELY DOG CAST AND CREW -  The Story of Lonely Dog

The story “Alveridgea – and the legend of the Lonely Dog” (co-written by Ivan & Stu Duval) has been published by Atlantic Books – London. This has been highly rated by critics and published in multiple languages.

The story relates Lonely Dog’s moving journey through life as a houndling who was abandoned on the Houndside Orphanage steps. All “snout and ears” in the beginning, he is a loner bullied by other orphan houndlings who nickname him “Lonely.” He emerges ultimately as a dapper, pin-stripe suited rocker with wing-tipped shoes and a gift for music — ultimately creating a name for himself as a legendary virtuoso. As the pup grows up in the whimsical world of Alveridgea where cats and dogs inhabit a segregated society, the story builds into a sophisticated world with twists, metaphors and social parallels with outrageous notions and ideologies with a whole range of paranormal ideas.