High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raffles of Singapore: the musical is a musical play by Richard Cleghorn-Brown and Ian Senior The musical was first performed under the auspices of the National Theatre of Singapore at the Victoria Theatre in Singapore, in 1979, from whence it subsequently toured to the Hong Kong Arts Festival.This full-scale musical in two acts is based on the life of Sir Stamford Raffles. After 10 years as a clerk in the East India Company, he was posted to Penang (now in Malaysia). He rose rapidly to become a lieutenant governor, freeing slaves and introducing free trade.