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LESLIE BRICUSSE (1931 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Leslie Bricusse |
Doctor Dolittle | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: First Night Cast (68) 1998 | doollee no | #63273 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Based on the books by Hugh Lofting | |||||
| Doctor John Dolittle is accused of murder but is proved innocent. He leaves for the South Seas to find the giant pink sea snail | |||||
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Good Old Bad Old Days | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prince of Wales Theatre, London | 20 Dec 1972 | ||||
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: | ema-751 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: EMI (EMA 751) 1972 | doollee no | #64238 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Leslie Bricusse; lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | |||||
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Jekyll and Hyde | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alley Theater, Houston, Texas | 1990 | ||||
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 Broadway cast: Atlantic (82976) 1997 | doollee no | #68750 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Frank Wildhorm; lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; book by Leslie Bricusse. Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. | |||||
| Glamorous, sexy and deliciously wicked in equal measures, Jekyll and Hyde is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic novella. Pellow stars as the brilliant but obsessive scientist whose sadistic alter ego wreaks havoc across Victorian London in this dark tale of love, redemption and the seductive power of evil. | |||||
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Lady At The Wheel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric, Hammersmith | 19 Feb 1958 | ||||
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 | #64235 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Leslie Bricusse and Robert Beaurmont; lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Robert Beaumont; book by Lucienne Hill; book by Frederick Raphael | |||||
Synopsis: | Rivalry between the British and the South American drivers at the Monte Carlo Rally | |||||
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Newley: The Fool Who Dared To Dream | ||
| 1st Produced: | Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Presented by Exotic Fruit in association with Wild Tyme | |||||
| 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 | #93503 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | book by Pete Gallagher; music and lyrics by Anthony Newley and Laslie Bricusse; based on an original idea by David Boyle; additional material by Joan Lane | |||||
Synopsis: | the work of actor, singer composer Anthony Newley | |||||
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Pickwick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Saville Theatre, London | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573080852 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Philips (6382070) 1963 | doollee no | #64236 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Cyril Ornadel; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; Book by Wolf Mankowitz; Based on "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens | |||||
| Setting: In and around London and Rochester. 1827 | |||||
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Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre, NY | 16 May 1965 | ||||
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: | 60351-2-RG | |||
| Music: | Original Broadway cast: RCA (60351-2-RG) 1965 | doollee no | #64023 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Book by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | |||||
| Setting: A rocky place | |||||
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Sammy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Globe, Santiago | 17 Sep 2009 | ||||
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 | #132818 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Sammy Davis Jr from a child in vaudeville to the Rat Pack | |||||
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Scrooge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, UK | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573080920 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96676 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. based on Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" | |||||
| In 1970, renowned writer-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse adapted the well-loved Dickens short story A Christmas Carol into the hit screen musical Scrooge. This stage version, based on the film, with the addition of six new songs. had a hugely successful national tour before a season at the Dominion Theatre, London in 1996 starring Anthony Newley as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who repents his past life when visited by three successive Chrismas spirits. | |||||
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Stop The World I Want To Get Off | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queens Theatre, London | 20 Jul 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Best Plays 1962 - 1963" published by Dodd Mead | ISBN/ASIN: | decca-820598 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Decca (820598) 1961 | doollee no | #64237 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Book by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley | |||||
| Littlechap gets the daughter of his boss pregnant and marries her. But he is dissatisfied with his life and drifts from woman to woman. Only realising when it is almost too late that he had everything with his wife | |||||
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Victor/Victoria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marquis Theatre, New York | 25 Oct 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: | 446-919 | |||
| Music: | Original Broadway cast: Philips (446919) 1995 | doollee no | #66318 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Blake Edwards (book), Leslie Bricusse (lyrics), Henry Mancini (music), Frank Wildhorn (additional music) | |||||
| based on the Blake Edwards film comedy. It's about a down-on-her luck singer who meets a gay impresario; together they hatch a grand fraud that wins her fame and both of them fortune: she pretends to be a Polish female impersonator with a coloratura soprano voice. Complications ensue when an American gangster falls in love with her, unaware that he is really a she | |||||
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