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PAUL LEIGH |
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Plays by Paul Leigh |
Moll Flanders | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057308099-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64503 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 40 characters + | |||||
Notes: | Book by Claire Luckham, lyrics by Paul Leigh, music by George Stiles. Based on the novel by Daniel Defoe | |||||
| Daniel Defoe's famous eighteenth-century novel about a girl born in Newgate Gaol: "Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia" who"at last grew Riche, liv'd in Honest and died a Penitent" is brought to the stage in this rumbustious musical written by Claire Luckham. The tale of Moll's many fortunes and misfortunes as she travels from Newgate Gaol to Colchester to Virginia to Bath to Liverpool to London and back again is told in a vivid series of deft, funny scenes. Travel, highway robbery, bloodsports, thieving, marriage and sex become Moll's picaresque pastimes as, with unfailing optimism, she seeks security in a world where the odds are stacked against her. The songs have fresh and witty lyrics by Paul Leigh and the music, by George Stiles, uses English folk-tunes from "Greensleeves"to "Over the Hills and Far Away" to evoke the period feel. | |||||
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Three Musketeers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Musical Theater of San Jose | 10 Mar 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-1140-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67700 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | from Alexandre Dumas. Music by George Stiles; book by Peter Raby with Francis Matthews; lyrics by Paul Leigh | |||||
Synopsis: | Everyone is familiar with the renowned adventures of D'Artagnan and his three fellow musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, as they fight for king and country-with frequent detours involving wine, women and song. The entire panoply of action is captured here with brilliant inventiveness and theatricality: the devious trickery of Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter; the sad plight of the beauteous Constance Bonacieux; attempted assassinations; plots and counterplots; and the final triumph of virtue over the forces of evil. Moving swiftly from scene to scene, with minimal staging required, the play captures all the color and excitement of the original with notable economy, and provides a memorable-and unashamedly romantic-experience for audiences and actors alike. | |||||
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