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ALAN MELVILLE (1910 - 1983) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Alan Melville |
At The Lyric | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts, Cambridge | 07 Dec 1952 (3?) | ||||
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 | #126431 | |||
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Genre: | 2 part revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book by Alan Melville; music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith; additional lyrics by Paul Dehn and Michael Flanders. Aka Going To Town | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 53.340; 54.130 | |||||
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Bet Your Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | London Hippodrome | 18 Feb 1952 | ||||
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: Blue Pear ((BP-1013) 1952 | doollee no | #126432 | |||
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Genre: | musical comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music By Kenneth Leslie-Smith and Charles Zwar; Lyrics By Alan Melville; Book/Libretto by: Alan Melville | |||||
| Its main draw was Arthur Askey, who helped it run for the best part of a year without the show ever becoming really popular | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 52.27 | |||||
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Castle In The Air | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1951 | ||||
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 | #23899 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Change of Tune | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Apr 1959 | |||||
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 | #89636 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | based on Anna Bonnacci's play | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 59.96 | |||||
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Dear Charles | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Hull | 03 Nov 1953 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23900 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | BBC Radio 1966 | |||||
Synopsis: | where a lady gets her three ex-lovers together to decide which one will be the best father to her children | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 52.296 | |||||
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Devil May Care | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23901 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Trainee devil, Nicholas has been sent to Monte Carlo to lure souls for The Powers That Be. At the Hotel Splendide he meets another (higher level) trainee Virginia. Their supervisor keeps popping up to keep an eye on them and he seduces Virginia. There is a newly wed couple at the hotel. Nicholas is having success in ensnaring the wife and Virginia the husband - but at the last minute it all falls through. The Powers That Be are not please and Nicholas and Virginia are grounded. They must stay on Earth for ever - but as they are now very fond of each other - this might not be a bad thing for them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Everything Happens On Friday | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 1964 | ||||
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 | #23902 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Full Circle | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1952 | ||||
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 | #48425 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Alan Melville adaptation from Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick Jackson | |||||
Synopsis: | Best-selling novelist Denise Darvel unexpectedly confesses to her children that the handsome man in the portrait above the fireplace is not, after all, their father. The truth is revealed - Denise is not a widow, has never been married and all three children have different fathers. In the interests of respectability, the search for a candidate for the role of fathersubstitute ensues, with surprising and delightful results. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gay's The Word | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester: Palace Theatre, Oxford Street, Manchester. M1 6FT >>> | 17 Oct 1950 | ||||
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 | #126433 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Alan Melville | |||||
| The story of Gay's the Word centres around Gay Daventry attempting to bring a musical to London. Sadly it does not turn out as a success so Linda lends her some inherited money and they open up a theatrical school at Gay's country house. This turns out to be the phenomenal success intended. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 51.23 | |||||
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Marigold | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21674 | |||||
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 London cast recording: His Masters Voice (1275) 1959 | doollee no | #67715 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act musical revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Charles Zwar; lyrics by Alan Melville. Based on the play by F R Pryor and L Allen Harker | |||||
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Further Reference: | Wearing 59.111 | |||||
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Minister's Mallard, 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 | #23903 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | BBC Radio 1967 | |||||
Synopsis: | featuring some daft politicians, a woman with commonsense, and an orphan duck | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mrs Willie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford: New Theatre | 18 Jul 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1957 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23904 | |||
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Genre: | comedy farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | pseud William Melville Caverhill | |||||
Synopsis: | Ilena was the queen of a Balkan state - but in a revolution she lost her husband and was exiled with her young son. She married an English farmer. Ilena is also a brilliant concert pianist and goes on tours around Europe. Whilst she is away her new husband spends his time with the widow next door. And whilst on her tours she plots to overthrow the new government in her country and put her son on the throne. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 55.160 | |||||
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Restoration Piece | ||
| 1st Produced: | Strand, London | 07 Dec 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 | #126434 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Green Room Rag. Several short turns and items | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 58.313 | |||||
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Simon and Laura | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hippodrome, Golders Green, London | 01 Nov 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1956 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23905 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | pseud William Melville Caverhill | |||||
Synopsis: | Simon and Laura veterans of the stage. But as the years have gone on they have not seen eye to eye on anything and their rows are ferocious. However, the world believes them to be the ideal couple. A television company starts making a series of programmes about their ideal marriage. For one hundred and ninety-nine programmes they manage to put on an act as the perfect husband and wife. However during programme two hundred they start to quarrel over Simon's interest in the lovely young scriptwriter and Laura's interest in the director. Have they gone too far? Will there be another programme in the series? It seems likely because at the end of the broadcast Laura announces she is pregnant. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 54.285 | |||||
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Wherefore Art Thou, Juliet? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Adelphi, London | 15 May 1955 | ||||
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 | #126435 | |||
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Genre: | short piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Green Room Rag. Several short turns and items | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 55.95 | |||||
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