SALAD DAYS started its life in June 1954 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. Dorothy Reynolds and I had been commissioned to write an end-of-season summer show for the Bristol Old Vic Company and it was ...

1) English book and lyrics by Alfred Kalisch, 2) book and lyrics by Christopher Hassall, 3) book by Edmund Tracey, lyrics by Christopher Hassall Composed non-stop in forty-two 'nights of veritable ...

One of Jerome Kern's great scores and a "must" for those societies that can happily boast a large chorus. And a large chorus indeed that is needed, minimum requirements being 12 sopranos, 11 mezzos, 5 ...

In rural Normandy, during the reign of Louis XIV, lives a miserly farmer called Gaspard. Two girls, about the same age, belong to his household - Germaine, his supposed niece and likely to inherit his ...

THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB Music by John Larsson; lyrics by John Gowans. Based on the poem General William Booth Enters Into Heaven by Vachel Lindsay THE POEM poem depicts William Booth leading a vast ...

New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway - 24 September, 1917 (Book and lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton as The Riviera Girl) - (78 perfs) Prince of Wales Theatre, London - 20 May, 1921: Transferred to ...

Based on The Adventures of Don Quixote, by Miguel the Cervantes y Saavedra, Man of La Mancha is a comic tragedy of mankind's struggle to better both himself and the world in which he lives. When ...

BRIGHTER LONDON Revue devised by Lauri Wylie. Music by Herman Finck; Lyrics by Clifford Harris; Additional Songs by Henry Busse, Zez Confrey, Lou Davis, Henry Lange and Al Jolson London Hippodrome - ...

• Housemaids - Daphne Anderson, Betty Matthews • Viking - Lance Hamilton • Spirit of Masque - Cyril Ritchard • Lady Maud Hailsbury - Ann Martin • Mistress Joan - Joy O'Neill • Mistress Alice - Renee ...

29. You're So Fine – Chuck Jackson, Shirley, Beverly, Doris and Micki 30. Hey Paula – Chuck Jackson, Shirley, Beverly, Doris and Micki 31. Louie, Louie – Kingsmen, Chuck Jackson, Shirley, Beverly, ...

Jerome Kern was born in 1885 in New York, to a first generation Jewish-German family. Although his mother recognised his talent and encouraged him in music from an early age, his father insisted that ...