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CY COLEMAN (1929 - 2004) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Cy Coleman |
City Of Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Virginia Theatre, New York | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Applause Books, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | CK-46067 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia (CK - 46067) 1990 | doollee no | #106861 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | By Cy Coleman and David Zippel, Book Larry Gelbart | |||||
| Pulp writer Stine is trying to write his first screenplay using his private eye character Stone. His wife wishes that he would stick to what he knows - writing novels but he perseveres. Stone in the script has been hired to find the missing step-daughter of a voluptuous rich woman. | |||||
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Life, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theatre Center | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | the-life | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Sony (SK-63312) 1997 | doollee no | #67633 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Ira Gasman; Book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman; Based on an original idea by Ira Gasman | |||||
| Times Square as it used to be - the pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and runaways | |||||
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Little Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York | 17 Nov 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | rca-61482 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (61482) | doollee no | #69825 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon | |||||
| This whopping, whirling musical burlesque charting the rise to fame and fortune of Bell Poitrine, the queen of the silver screen. This little girl from the wrong side of the tracks, finds her way to the right side, with the help of several willing gentlemen! | |||||
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On the Twentieth Century | ||
| 1st Produced: | St James Theater, New York | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | sony-35330 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording:Sony (35330) 1978 | doollee no | #122223 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Music by Cy Coleman; Based on the play by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Milholland | |||||
| After four flops in a row, megalomaniac theatre impresario, Oscar Jaffee, and his hapless entourage are on the run. Desperately trying to resuscitate his flat-lining career he books a carriage on the Twentieth Century Limited, the world's most famous express train, bound for New York. In the next carriage resides his former sweetheart turned Hollywood starlet Lily Garland. Now Oscar has just 16 hours to entice the egotistical Lily back on to the stage, as the leading lady in his next show. Oscar's financial ruin hangs in the balance and a jealous lover is on the loose. Offered funding by religious fanatic Letitia Peabody Primrose, Jaffee's dreams fall into a glorious, and by turns hilarious, balancing act of keeping everyone happy. Set against a backdrop of the great American Depression of the 1930s, what unfolds is a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale of the pitfalls of producing theatre when cash is tight and private money comes at an unavoidable cost. | |||||
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Welcome To The Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | Music Box Theatre, New York | 13 Apr 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120499 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Cy Coleman and A E Hotchner; book by A E Hotchner | |||||
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Will Rogers Follies, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theater, New York | 01 May 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | sony-48606 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Sony (48606) 1991 | doollee no | #112954 | |||
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Genre: | life in revue Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Book by Peter Stone; Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Music arranged by Cy Coleman; Inspired by the words of Will Rogers and Betty Rogers | |||||
| The life of Will Rogers as told by Will and with embellishments from Florenz Ziegfield. At nineteen Will runs away from home and goes to South America to be a cowboy. He meets the love of his life - Betty Blake on a train. Ziegfield decides that this is not romantic enough - so instead of the train she floats down from the sky seated on the moon. Some years later Will is playing in a Wild West Revue and he marries Betty. Ziegfield says that a grand wedding should be the finale of act one. So Will and Betty have four children and Will goes to work at the Ziegfield Follies where he becomes a huge success. He is also a radio star now and he is just about to leave for Hollywood when Ziegfield says it is nearly time for the interval - so they have the grand wedding. In Hollywood Will is also a great success - he is asked to run for President. Ziegfield looses his fortune and the Depression gets worse. President Hoover asks Will to broadcast to the Nation to boost morale. He does and everyone is inspired. In Alaska he goes for a plane ride with his friend Wiley - they never come back. | |||||
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