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Alan Melville

ALAN MELVILLE   (1910 - 1983)

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Plays by Alan Melville

ALAN MELVILLE

At The Lyric

1st Produced:

Arts, Cambridge

07 Dec 1952 (3?)

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Bet Your Life

1st Produced:

London Hippodrome

18 Feb 1952

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

Original cast recording: Blue Pear ((BP-1013) 1952

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#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

Bet Your Life

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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ALAN MELVILLE

Castle In The Air

1st Produced:

- - -

1951

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#23899

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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ALAN MELVILLE

Change of Tune

1st Produced:

Edinburgh: Royal Lyceum Theatre Co., Scotland, EUR >>>

13 Apr 1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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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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ALAN MELVILLE

Dear Charles

1st Produced:

New Theatre, Hull

03 Nov 1953

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French Ltd, London

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Devil May Care

1st Produced:

- - -

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Everything Happens On Friday

1st Produced:

Leeds

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#23902

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

6

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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ALAN MELVILLE

Full Circle

1st Produced:

- - -

1952

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

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

Gay's The Word

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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ALAN MELVILLE

Marigold

1st Produced:

Aberdeen: His Majesty's Theatre, Scotland, EUR >>>

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

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#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

Marigold

n/a

Further Reference:

Wearing 59.111


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ALAN MELVILLE

Minister's Mallard, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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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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ALAN MELVILLE

Mrs Willie

1st Produced:

Oxford: New Theatre

18 Jul 1955

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1957

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Restoration Piece

1st Produced:

Strand, London

07 Dec 1958

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Simon and Laura

1st Produced:

Hippodrome, Golders Green, London

01 Nov 1954

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1956

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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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ALAN MELVILLE

Wherefore Art Thou, Juliet?

1st Produced:

Adelphi, London

15 May 1955

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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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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