Which Lionel Bart flop musical was based on Robin Hood?
"is estimated that around this time Bart was earning 16 pounds a minute from ""Oliver!"" Bart's next two musicals, ""Blitz!"" (1962) (from which came the song ""Far Away"", a hit for Shirley Bassey) and ""Maggie May"" (1964) had successful and respectable West End runs (""Blitz!"", at the time London's most expensive musical ever, had a run of 568 performances), but ""Twang!!"" (1965), a musical based on the Robin Hood legend, was a flop and ""La Strada"" (1969), which opened on Broadway after the removal of most of Bart's songs, closed after only one performance. By this time Bart was taking"
"stopped drinking, although the years of substance abuse seriously damaged his health, leaving him with diabetes and impaired liver function. In May 1977, an autobiographical musical called ""Lionel!"" opened in the West End at the New London Theatre. It was loosely based on Bart's early life as a child prodigy. Bart added some new songs for the show and expectations were high. The cast included Clarke Peters, Marion Montgomery and Adrienne Posta. The role of Lionel was shared by a young Todd Carty and theatre unknown Chris Nieto. The show closed after six weeks, losing £250,000. Bart continued writing songs"
"Lionel Bart Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's hit ""Rock with the Caveman"", which became the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and was the sole creator of the internationally acclaimed musical ""Oliver!"" (1960). With ""Oliver!"" and his work alongside revolutionary theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he played an instrumental role in the 1960s birth of the British musical theatre scene after an era when American musicals had dominated the West End. Best"
"returns to re-establish order. The cast included the strongest players from Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, including Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Windsor and James Booth. But ""Twang!!"" ran into difficulty from the start. The script was weak, especially the part of Robin Hood, which was badly underwritten. When Booth expressed his concerns, he was repeatedly assured that the part would be expanded to a starring role. Littlewood demanded a rewrite, but constant, confusing revisions failed to improve the script. Littlewood, the choreographer Paddy Stone, the designer Oliver Messel, and the writers failed to work together. Rehearsals were disorganised and fraught with tension; Bart"
"Robin Hood (opera) Robin Hood is a ballad opera by Michael Tippett based on the legend of Robin Hood. Composed in 1934, the score remains unpublished. However, Tippett later used an expanded version of the overture as the finale to his 1948 ""Suite in D major (For the Birthday of Prince Charles)"". During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Tippett was hired to organize the musical life of a number of work camps for unemployed miners in North Yorkshire. As part of his work there, he revised and abridged John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" for performances in the church hall"
"Robin Hood (comic opera) Robin Hood is a comic opera by Reginald De Koven (music), Harry B. Smith (lyrics) and Clement Scott (lyrics of ""Oh Promise Me""). The story is based on the Robin Hood legend, during the reign of King Richard I (1189-1199 AD). The opera was composed in Chicago, Illinois during the winter of 1888-1889. The opera was first performed at the Chicago Opera House on 9 June 1890. It was produced by the Boston Ideal Opera Company, also known as the Bostonians. The opera opened in New York at the Standard Theatre on September 22, 1891 and"
"Howard as Lucrezia. The musical then toured for two seasons and was given an Australian production in 1924 and a London West End production, opening on February 17, 1926 and running for 114 performances, starring Kitty Reidy as Nina, with Peter Gawthorne as Alberto and Mark Daley as Gabrielle. It's London run was hampered by the [1926 United Kingdom general strike|1926 national strike] in Britain. ""Wildflower"" was Oscar Hammerstein’s first successful musical and Vincent Youmans' second show. It ran over a year because of its ""simple-minded story"". ""The New York Times"" opening night review stated erroneously that the show ""contains"
"and Sonny Jay as Charlene as well as a special appearance by 60s pop-star Grazina Frame who was an original cast member from Bart's ""Blitz!"" The play, and playwright Christopher Bond, received overwhelming praise, in particular from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Dame Barbara Windsor. It is currently in pre-production and scheduled for a West End opening in 2018/19. Lionel Bart Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's hit ""Rock with the Caveman"", which became the first British pop song to break into"
"Robin des Bois Robin des Bois (full title Robin des Bois: Ne renoncez jamais) is a French musical with mise en scène by Michel Laprise and text and music by Patrice Guirao and Lionel Florence. It premiered on 26 September 2013 at Palais des congrès de Paris and played until 5 January 2014 with French singer M. Pokora in the role of Robin Hood. In this amended version of Robin Hood, Robin and Marianne (in English Maid Marian) have decided to end their relationship. Fifteen years later, they both are leaders of their own groups, in two separated parts of"
"Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby. The picture features Peter Falk, Barbara Rush, and an un-credited Edward G. Robinson. Written by David R. Schwartz, the film transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting, though this story's utterly opportunistic Marian is very different from the faithful Maid Marian of the original legend. Produced by Frank Sinatra, the film introduced the hit song ""My Kind of Town"" by Jimmy Van Heusen and"
"intermission."" The musical numbers from the 1976 Broadway production are as follows: The musical numbers from the 1975 Broadway previews are as follows: ""Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops"" by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press (1991), pages 31–33 () Home Sweet Homer (musical) Home Sweet Homer is a musical with a book by Roland Kibbee and Albert Marre, lyrics by Charles Burr and Forman Brown, and music by Mitch Leigh. Originally called ""Odyssey"", it is one of the most notorious flops in Broadway theatre history. Loosely based on Homeric legend, it focuses on Odysseus and"
"the group, the portrait was later altered to show him without the gun. The film's soundtrack album was re-released on compact disc in 2000 on Artanis Records. Notes Bibliography Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby. The picture features Peter Falk, Barbara Rush, and an un-credited Edward G. Robinson. Written by David R. Schwartz, the film transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting, though this story's utterly opportunistic Marian is very"
"and another successful vehicle for Roberts, ""Dandy Dan, the Lifeguardsman"" in 1897. Hood wrote several successful shows with other librettists, and his English versions of Viennese operettas, such as ""The Merry Widow"", were very popular until World War I. Gentleman Joe Gentleman Joe, The Hansom Cabbie is a farcical musical comedy with music by Walter Slaughter and a libretto by Basil Hood. The original production of the musical opened at the Prince of Wales's Theatre on 2 March 1895 and ran for a very successful 391 performances despite a poor notice in ""The Saturday Review"" by Bernard Shaw that dismissed"
"Mackintosh, who owned half the rights to ""Oliver!"", revived the musical at the London Palladium in 1994 in a version featuring rewrites by Lionel Bart himself. Mackintosh gave Bart a share of the production royalties. At the peak of his career, Bart was romantically linked in the media with singers Judy Garland and Alma Cogan, though he was in fact gay. His sexuality was known to friends and colleagues but he did not ""come out"" until a few years before his death. Bart died at the Hammersmith Hospital, 150 DuCane Road, Shepherd's Bush, West London on 3 April 1999, of"
"recorded for the BBC Radio 3 Programme Music Matters. Robin Hood (opera) Robin Hood is a ballad opera by Michael Tippett based on the legend of Robin Hood. Composed in 1934, the score remains unpublished. However, Tippett later used an expanded version of the overture as the finale to his 1948 ""Suite in D major (For the Birthday of Prince Charles)"". During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Tippett was hired to organize the musical life of a number of work camps for unemployed miners in North Yorkshire. As part of his work there, he revised and abridged John Gay's"
"and lyrics written by David Lambert. It is set seven years after the events in the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens where the Artful Dodger has been sentenced to an Australian penal colony and has a romantic involvement with the character Bet. When Lionel Bart faced severe financial difficulties several years later, he sold his past and future rights to ""Oliver!"" to the entertainer Max Bygraves for £350. Bygraves later sold them on for £250,000 Oliver! Oliver! is an English musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles"
"and for which he wrote the book, but it proved to be an infamous flop. He later had success with the musicals ""Hallelujah, Baby!"" (written for Lena Horne but ultimately starring Leslie Uggams) and ""La Cage Aux Folles"" (1983), which he directed, however ""Nick & Nora"" was not successful. In 2008, Laurents directed a Broadway revival of ""Gypsy"" starring Patti LuPone, and in 2009, he tackled a bilingual revival of ""West Side Story"", with Spanish translations of some dialogue and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. While preparing ""West Side Story"", he noted, ""The musical theatre and cultural conventions of 1957 made"
"The Robber Bridegroom (musical) The Robber Bridegroom is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman. The story is based on the 1942 novella by Eudora Welty of the same name, with a Robin Hood-like hero; the adaptation placed it in a late 18th-century American setting. The musical ran on Broadway in 1975 and again in 1976. The show started with an early 1970s production at St Clements Theatre in producer Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab, which invented the concept of the ""workshop"" development process for musicals. Raul Julia starred as Lockhart.. Other"
"for the low comic Arthur Roberts. Bernard Shaw dismissed the score in ""The Saturday Review"": ""The music, by Mr. Walter Slaughter, does not contain a single novel, or even passably fresh point, either in melody, harmony or orchestration."" However, the show ran for 391 performances and enjoyed a New York production the following year. This was followed in 1896 by another collaboration with Hood that produced ""The French Maid"", which debuted at Terry's Theatre and was a long-lived international success (480 performances in London, and a long-running New York production), and the less successful ""Belinda"". He also wrote incidental music"
"the famous Broadway flop """"Breakfast at Tiffany's"" ""(1966), a musical version of the Truman Capote novella with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain that never officially opened. "" He choreographed the 1969 film adaptation of the hit Broadway play ""Hello, Dolly!"" The film was beset by tension on the unhappy set, with Barbra Streisand clashing with her costar Walter Matthau and director Gene Kelly; Kidd also had conflicts with costume designer Irene Sharaff and Kelly, to the point that he and Kelly were no longer on speaking terms. The film was not a success as a musical, with Kelly and"
"to audition for him for a part in the film adaptation of the musical ""Hello, Dolly!"". He was cast and shared top billing with Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau. Despite becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1969, it failed to recoup its $25 million budget at the box office. It went on to win three Academy Awards, was nominated for a further four (including Best Picture), and is now considered to be one of the greatest musical films ever. His later films fared less successfully, although ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", in which he played the White Rabbit, enjoyed moderate"
"review in ""The New York Times"", Clive Barnes wrote that the book was superficial and the music bland and trite. However, he praised Peters, writing ""In a different show the birdlike and croaky Bernadette Peters would have become a star overnight."" La Strada (musical) La Strada is a musical with lyrics and music by Lionel Bart, with additional lyrics by Martin Charnin and additional music by Elliot Lawrence. It is based on the 1954 film of the same name by Federico Fellini. Bart wrote the score in 1967 and made a demonstration recording, although the musical was not produced until"
"the Opera"" was originally a novel by Gaston Leroux written as a serialisation from 1909 to 1910. It is the longest running show in Broadway history. There are numerous examples of novel adaptations in the field, including ""Cats"", which was based on ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" by T.S. Eliot and ""Les Misérables"", which was originally a historical novel by Victor Hugo. ""The Lion King"" was originally a Disney animated film and its theatrical adaptation has become the most successful musical in history. ""Chicago"" was adapted from a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was a reporter and"
"was Bart, that he came out of obscurity and travelled to Australia for Jarrett's triumphant production in 1985. The Royal Shakespeare Company's intended 1990 revival (for the fiftieth anniversary of the Blitz) never happened, although the National Youth Theatre did revive it in London's West End at the Playhouse Theatre in September 1990 with Jarrett imported as Music Director. This production was directed by Edward Wilson and choreographed by David Toguri, with the role of Mrs. Blitzstein played by Jessica Stephenson (now Hynes), (now an established UK screen actor). According to the review in ""The Guardian"" ""Edward Wilson's production for"
"several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called ""Love Match"", in which she played Queen Victoria; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop ""1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"", in which she portrayed every U.S. First Lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 musical, ""Say Hello to Harvey""based on the Mary Coyle Chase play ""Harvey"" (1944) which closed in Toronto before reaching New York. In 1980, Routledge played Ruth in the Joseph Papp production of ""The Pirates of Penzance"", co-starring American actor Kevin Kline and pop vocalist Linda Ronstadt, at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park, one"
"In 2009, it was announced that a new contemporary film adaptation of the musical will star Jim Carrey as Applegate and Jake Gyllenhaal as Joe Hardy. No further announcements about this adaptation have been made since (as of August 2018). Damn Yankees Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's"
"from this musical, nor was the 1949 musical film ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", which starred Bing Crosby. The Rodgers and Hart ""Connecticut Yankee"", like many of the team's earlier musicals, has never been filmed for the big screen though a scene was staged for the 1948 biographical movie of the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Words and Music. ""A Connecticut Yankee"" opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 3, 1927, and closed on October 27, 1928, running for 421 performances. Directed by Alexander Leftwich, with dances by Busby Berkeley, it starred William Gaxton"
"Peter Pan (1954 musical) Peter Pan is a musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play ""Peter Pan"" and Barrie's own novelization of it, ""Peter and Wendy"". The music is mostly by Mark ""Moose"" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars. It was followed by NBC telecasts of it in 1955, 1956, and 1960 with the same stars, plus"
"Home Sweet Homer (musical) Home Sweet Homer is a musical with a book by Roland Kibbee and Albert Marre, lyrics by Charles Burr and Forman Brown, and music by Mitch Leigh. Originally called ""Odyssey"", it is one of the most notorious flops in Broadway theatre history. Loosely based on Homeric legend, it focuses on Odysseus and Penelope, awaiting his return to Ithaca. The show was designed as a vehicle for Yul Brynner, who was anxious to duplicate his success in ""The King and I"" more than two decades earlier. The original book and lyrics were by author Erich Segal, and"
"this became a West End musical; on the tour, they must put on a ""Broadway musical""), implying that it need only be Broadway-style, ""but not an Andrew Lloyd Webber"". The mere mention of his name causes everyone to cover their ears and scream in pain. Sir Robin, who has found Arthur by this point, insists that it would be impossible for them to accomplish this next task, since you need Jews for a successful Broadway (or West End) musical ""(""You Won't Succeed On Broadway"")"", and proves his point in a wild production number filled with ""Fiddler on the Roof"" parodies,"
"not Lennon that was responsible for the break-up of The Beatles. McCartney blocked a proposed film version of the musical. John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert is a 1974 musical by Willy Russell based on the story of The Beatles. It premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in May 1974 where it ran for eight weeks and later moved to the Lyric Theatre in London in August 1974, where it ran for a year and was later named ""Best Musical of 1974"" by the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and London Critics'"
"Robin and Marian Robin and Marian is a 1976 British-American romantic adventure period film from Columbia Pictures, shot in Panavision and Technicolor, that was directed by Richard Lester and written by James Goldman, based on the legend of Robin Hood. The film stars Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Richard Harris as Richard the Lionheart. It also features comedian Ronnie Barker in a rare film role as Friar Tuck. ""Robin and Marian"" was filmed in Zamora, Spain and also in Artajona, Urbasa, Quinto"
"The musical had out-of-town tryouts at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit, Michigan starting on October 27, 1969. ""La Strada"" opened on December 14, 1969 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway after 14 previews. The show was directed by Alan Schneider, with choreography by Alvin Ailey and Joyce Trisler. It closed the same night, losing $650,000. In discussing ""La Strada""'s problems, Steven Suskin wrote that Bart apparently did not go to the United States to assist during rehearsals, and neither the director nor the choreographers had previously done a Broadway musical. Peters confirmed that Bart never worked on the show in"