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KELLY HAMILTON (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC |
(b 5 July 1945, San Francisco CA) Composer, lyricist and author of musical plays and operas. His father was Francis Hamilton, a newspaperman and jazz critic; his mother, Doris, sang and played piano, but died when he was 11. He grew up in Atherton, south of San Francisco, where he began writing and producing musicals as a teenager, basing them on classic works like Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Letter. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1960s where he attended UCLA, wrote songs for Capitol Records and joined Lehman Engel's BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Surprise! is a musical version of Moliere's Tartuffe, premiered in 1970 in a small theater in Hollywood, and subsequently produced in San Francisco. In the early 1970s he wrote Dance On A Country Grave, a romantic musical based on Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native. The show premiered in Chicago in 1974, starring Andrea Marcovicci as Eustacia Vye with a cast that included John Savage, Shawn Elliott and David Selby. The music orchestrated by Eddie Sauter, the show was acclaimed as 'a thing of beauty and joy,' won a Joseph Jefferson Award, and has been produced in a variety of regional theaters, most notably off-Broadway in 1977 where it starred Kevin Kline and Donna Theodore, and in Philadelphia in 1998, when the score was at last recorded with the gifted Denise Whelan. The show has been optioned three times for Broadway and twice for London, but no producer has yet been able to put a deal together. During that period, Hamilton also wrote Saga, which has been described as a folk-rock-jazz-gospel-ragtime opera. A dark, folkloric portrait of America, the show was produced in 1979 by the Lyric Theater of New York with Stephen Bogardus in his first starring role. In an abrupt change of style, Hamilton wrote Trixie True, Teen Detective, a jaunty farce about a publishing company churning out a series of Nancy Drew-style books. The show premiered Off-Broadway in 1980 at Lucille Lortel's Theatre De Lys and has become part of the standard repertory. A cast album was recorded in 2006, the same year Hamilton completed a new musical about an earthshaking event, The Last Big Thing.
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Plays by Kelly Hamilton
Dance On A Country Grave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arlington Park Theatre, Chicago | 1974 | ||||
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: | OC-8804 | |||
| Music: | Revival cast recording: Original Cast Records (OC 8804) 1998 | doollee no | #15305 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Romantic musical based on Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native | |||||
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Last Big Thing, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #22402 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | revolving around an earthshaking event | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saga | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theater of New York | 1979 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1983. | ISBN/ASIN: | saga | |||
| Music: | CD available through Green Gravel Music at Footlights.com | doollee no | #40358 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Starred: Stephen Bogardus | |||||
| Musical based on American legends | |||||
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Stevenson by Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hawaii | 1995 | ||||
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 | #54341 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | composer Peter Matz and author Gene Levitt | |||||
Synopsis: | concerning the life and times of Robert Louis Stevenson | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Surprise! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alcazar Theater in San Francisco | 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: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40359 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Musical based on Moliere's Tartuffe | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trixie True, Teen Detective | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lucille Lortel's Theatre de Lys, NY | 07 Dec 1980 | ||||
Company: | Maverick Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | OC-6180 | |||
| Music: | Revival cast recording: Original Cast Records (OC 6180) 2006 | doollee no | #40360 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Starred: Marilyn Sokol. Album: Original Cast Album Records | |||||
| A musical about a writer, his publisher, and their literary creation, Trixie True | |||||
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