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HAROLD ARLEN (1905 - 1986) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Harold Arlen |
Bloomer Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre, New York | 05 Oct 1944 | ||||
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: | Original cast recording: MCA (MCAD- 10522) 1944 | doollee no | #132773 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E Y Harburg; book by Sig Herzig; Fred Saidy | |||||
| The daughter of a hoop dress manufacturer has become a convert to the cause of Amelia Bloomer and her liberating womens wear. She battles her father who wants things to remain the same. Her fiance is a slave owner and she is an abolitionist - it is the eve of the American Civil War | |||||
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House Of Flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, NY | 30 Dec 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, NY, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia 1954 | doollee no | #68262 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Book by Truman Capote; Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen | |||||
| Two neighbouring bordellos battle for customers. Ottilie who works at one of them turns down a rich lord to marry a farm boy Royal. Her Madam wants to keep her working so has Royal kidnapped, sealed in a barrel and thrown in the sea. Luckily he escapes an | |||||
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Jamaica | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imperial Theatre, New York | 31 Oct 1957 | ||||
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: | Original cast recording: RCA (68041) 1957 | doollee no | #132779 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E Y Harburg; book by E Y Harburg; Fred Saidy | |||||
| Savannah longs to leave Jamaica and live in New York. An American businessman proposes marriage and it looks like her dream is about to come true - until she realises that she loves Koli a poor local fisherman and that she cannot leave him | |||||
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Saratoga | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theatre, New York | 07 Dec 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | typescript in PAL, 1959 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124530 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; book by Morton Dacosta. Based on the novel "Saratoga Trunk" by Edna Furber | |||||
| Clio an illegitimate Creole woman plans revenge on the family that exiled her pregnant mother as the son of the house was the father. She joins forces with Clint Maroon whose family was swindled out of land by a railway tycoon. The plan is for Clio to seduce the tycoon and get him to marry her. However, Clint and Clio fall in love | |||||
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St Louis Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gilpin Players, Karamu Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio | Nov 1933 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Theater, ed. by Lindsay Patterson, New York: Dodd, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Angel (64662) 1946 | doollee no | #132781 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 22 BM, 7 BF, extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer (added later); book by Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen. (Martin Beck Theater, New York, Mar. 1946) | |||||
| St Louis 1898. Augie a jockey is having a very successful run of wins. He is in love with Della. Della is trying to end an abusive relationship with bar owner Biglow Brown. At the bar Augie demonstrates the cakewalk and attracts Della's attention. Lilla is also there - she is Brown's ex-lover and is still very much in love with her. Della and Augie plan to get married. Whilst Augie is away racing Brown visits Della and beats her up. Lilla has followed him - then Augie returns. Lilla shoots Brown but Brown thinks that Augie did it and with his dying breath curses him. The curse seems to work Augie stops winning races and Della decides to move away convinced that it is all her fault. When Augie discovers why she is leaving he determines to win the next race and prove the curse wrong | |||||
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Wizard Of Oz, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 15 Aug 1939 | ||||
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: | Soundtrax-1020 | |||
| Music: | Revival cast recording: TVT Soundtrax (1020) 1998 | doollee no | #1065 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | By L. Frank Baum, with Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg | |||||
| stage musical of an iconic film | |||||
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