"and the entire ideal kingdom of Camelot. The book begins as a quite light-hearted account of the young Arthur's adventures, and King Pellinore's interminable search for the Questing Beast. Parts of ""The Sword in the Stone"" read almost as a parody of the traditional Arthurian legend by virtue of White's prose style, which relies heavily on anachronisms. However, the tale gradually changes tone until ""Ill-Made Knight"" becomes more meditative and ""The Candle in the Wind"" finds Arthur brooding over death and his legacy. Perhaps most striking about White's work is how he reinterprets the traditional Arthurian characters, often giving them"
"Davis, Jeffrey Segal and Lewis Stringer. Benjamin Britten's incidental music, played by the English Sinfonia, was used in the production, which was by Graham Gauld. BBC Radio 4 serialised the book in six one-hour episodes dramatised by Brian Sibley, beginning on Sunday 9 November 2014 with Paul Ready as Arthur and David Warner as Merlyn. The Once and Future King The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" by Sir Thomas Malory. It was first published in 1958. It collects and revises shorter novels published from 1938 to 1941, with much"
"Boots (musical), Fun Home (musical), 1984 (play), Falsettos and The King and I. A restaging of the concert was held at Greenroom 42 in September of 2018, featuring new cast members from School of Rock (musical), The Lion King (musical) and Pippin (musical) with James Healy as musical director. ""A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant"" received a 2004 Obie Award for its 2003 production in New York City. Kyle Jarrow and Alex Timbers were given ""Special Citations"" from ""The Village Voice"" for developing the piece. Timbers and Jarrow were honored with the award at the May 17, 2004 Obie"
"The Once and Future King The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" by Sir Thomas Malory. It was first published in 1958. It collects and revises shorter novels published from 1938 to 1941, with much new material. ""The Once and Future King"" contains much deliberately anachronistic humour, affectionate mockery of the source text and commentary on totalitarianism. The work explores human nature regarding power and justice. As the young Arthur becomes king, he attempts to quell the prevalent ""might makes right"" attitude with his idea of chivalry, even as he"
"appealing stars, Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, have only grown in presence and dimensionality."" The production was nominated in the Musical Theatre Division of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards Once (musical) Once is a musical based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney. Like the film, music and lyrics were by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including the Academy Award-winning ""Falling Slowly"". The book for the musical was written by Enda Walsh. The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2011, before transferring to Broadway in 2012. The production received eleven 2012 Tony Award"
"team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe to adapt Heneker's original songs and create new material for the production, with Julian Fellowes re-writing an entirely new book. The creative team also reunites Stiles and Drewe with Fellowes after ""Mary Poppins"" and the new musical adaptation of ""The Wind in the Willows"" (which also reunites director Rachel Kavanaugh, who also directed Stiles and Drewe's """" at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2007). The musical premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre (as part of the final season of Jonathan Church as artistic director and Alan Finch as executive producer) from 14 July to"
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"in a Broadway theater. It was also used as a way to update the script to modern day as well as explain how Hedwig would be able to use such stage settings. Various newspapers have commented favorably on the faux Playbills, both an element of the musical and as a piece separate from the musical itself. The faux Playbills were written by writer-performers Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte, and designed by Rogers Eckersley Design. Hurt Locker (musical) Hurt Locker The Musical is a fictional musical in the 2014 Broadway premiere production of ""Hedwig and the Angry Inch"". In the Broadway"
"Once (musical) Once is a musical based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney. Like the film, music and lyrics were by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including the Academy Award-winning ""Falling Slowly"". The book for the musical was written by Enda Walsh. The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2011, before transferring to Broadway in 2012. The production received eleven 2012 Tony Award nominations, and won eight including Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Book. The musical also won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and the 2013 Grammy Award"
"life of its own,"" a sentiment similar to those expressed by the other critics. An original cast recording is available on CD. Dance a Little Closer Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse. The story is an updated version of Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 antiwar comedy ""Idiot's Delight"". The musical is set on New Year's Eve ""in the avoidable future"" in the grand Alpine Barclay Palace Hotel, where the guests find themselves in the midst of a potential nuclear Armageddon. The characters are American crooner Harry"
"in the 2016–2017 season—for the 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical for Benton, Best Actor in a Musical for Groban, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Lucas Steele, and Best Direction of a Musical for Chavkin. It won two awards: Best Scenic Design for Mimi Lien and Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Bradley King. The story is set in Moscow, 1812, just before Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the burning of the city. The story begins by introducing the characters (""Prologue""), and then sets"
"Hurt Locker (musical) Hurt Locker The Musical is a fictional musical in the 2014 Broadway premiere production of ""Hedwig and the Angry Inch"". In the Broadway performance of ""Hedwig and the Angry Inch"", the musical opens with Hedwig explaining that the musical only ran for a single night before closing during intermission, and that she has convinced a producer to let her perform in what would otherwise be an empty stage. Fake Playbills for the musical are used as props and are found scattered on the floor of the Belasco Theatre and contains advertisements for other fake musicals such as"
"the house, removing the paint that covered the Italian marble. Lloyd Webber premiered his musical ""The Woman in White"" at the Palace later in 2004, which ran for 19 months. ""Monty Python's Spamalot"" opened in 2006 and ran until 2009. It was replaced by ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert"", which played through 2011, and ""Singin' In The Rain"" played from 2012 to 2013, followed by ""The Commitments"" from 2013 to 2015. ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"", a two-part play written by Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany, began previews at"
"honors, including six Tony Awards, one for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical, making director Julie Taymor the first woman to earn such an honor. The show opened in the West End's Lyceum Theatre on October 19, 1999, and is still running after more than 7,500 performances. The cast of the West End production were invited to perform at the Royal Variety Performance in 1999 and 2008, in the presence of senior members of the British Royal Family. In September 2014, ""The Lion King"" became the top-earning title in box-office history for both stage productions and films, surpassing"
"Back to the Future (musical) Back to the Future is an upcoming musical with music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, adapted from their original screenplay. Based on the 1985 film of the same name, the show will feature original music alongside hits from the film, including ""The Power of Love"" and ""Johnny B. Goode"". The musical was originally slated to make its world première in London's West End in 2015, the year to which the trilogy's characters travelled in ""Part II"". However, after director Jamie Lloyd left the"
"for a stage musical. On December 18, 2014, the musical was officially confirmed and it was announced that the show would receive its world premiere on Broadway in autumn 2015, at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical has a book by ""Downton Abbey"" creator Julian Fellowes, and is directed by Laurence Connor, with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, set and costume design by Anna Louizos and lighting by Natasha Katz. The musical features an original score composed by Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and sound design by Mick Potter, in addition to music from the original film. ""School"
"Lake City, Spokane, Seattle, New York City, Chicago, Costa Mesa and Denver. In 2015, the production toured in North America with shows in Worcester, Detroit, Appleton, Columbus, Jacksonville, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. Stefán Karl performed as Grinch, Bob Lauder as Old Max, and Genny Gagnon and Rachel Katzke as Cindy Lou Who. The musical will make its UK premiere at The Lowry, in Salford from 10 December 2019 to 5 January 2020. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, or simply How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, is"
"by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally. The musical opened at the Lyceum Theatre on March 26, 2015 and closed on June 14, 2015. Co-starring Roger Rees, the production was directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Graciela Daniele. Rivera received praise for her performance, and was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical. Rivera has been nominated for the Tony Award ten times, as either Best Featured Actress in a Musical or Best Actress in a Musical. This is the current record for the most individual Tony Award nominations, which she"
"4 December 2015 and finished on 16 January 2016. The production's creative team also consisted of ""Noah and the Whale"" frontman Charlie Fink writing music and lyrics, Drew McOnie as choreographer, Rob Howell as designer, John Clark as lighting designer, Tom Gibbons as sound designer, Phil Bateman as musical director/arranger and Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell as puppetry designers. The cast included Simon Lipkin as the title role of 'The Lorax' (assisted by Laura Cubitt and Ben Thompson as puppeteers) and Simon Paisley Day as 'The Once-ler'. The production will return to The Old Vic for three weeks only from"
"Theatre and its owner Laura Henderson, who transformed the theatre and produced Revudeville shows featuring static naked tableaux girls, exploiting a loophole in the Lord Chamberlain's Lord Cromer censorship laws. In June 2014, it was first revealed by producer John Reid that an adaption was in the works, with a workshop taking place the same year. On 16 October 2014, the musical was officially confirmed and it was announced that the show would receive its world premiere in summer 2015, with a view to a West End transfer. The musical is directed by and has a book by Terry Johnson,"
"books of ""The Once and Future King"" and features White's idea of having Thomas Malory make a cameo appearance at the end, again as ""Tom of Warwick"". BBC Radio produced a dramatised version of ""The Sword in the Stone"" for Children's Hour shortly after its publication in 1938. Incidental music for the serial was specially composed by Benjamin Britten. A two-hour version of ""The Sword in the Stone"", dramatised by Neville Teller, was first broadcast as a Saturday Night Theatre on Boxing Day, 1981. Michael Hordern played Merlyn and Toby Robertson was the Wart. The cast included Pauline Letts, David"
"The Little Prince and the Aviator The Little Prince and the Aviator is a musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Don Black, and music by John Barry. Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is real-life author Saint-Exupéry, and the plot alternates flashbacks to actual events in his life with his interaction with the fictional Little Prince, a refugee from Asteroid B-612. Undaunted by the critical and commercial failure of the 1974 musical screen adaptation by Lerner"
"for more money during its final week. He eventually was awarded $1,000,000, representing two-thirds of his investment. The Little Prince and the Aviator The Little Prince and the Aviator is a musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Don Black, and music by John Barry. Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is real-life author Saint-Exupéry, and the plot alternates flashbacks to actual events in his life with his interaction with the fictional Little Prince, a refugee from"
"set for September 14. The production is directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun. The production’s design team includes scenery by Jason Sherwood, costumes by Loren Shaw, lighting by Jens Schriever, and sound by Ken Travis. Last Days of Summer (musical) Last Days of Summer is a musical with music by Jason Howland and lyrics and a book by Steve Kluger. Based on the 1998 epistolary novel of the same name written by Kluger, the musical is expected to make its world premiere try-out at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2018. The musical centers on"
"A Christmas Story: The Musical A Christmas Story: The Musical is a musical version of the film ""A Christmas Story"". The musical has music and lyrics written by Pasek & Paul and the book by Joseph Robinette. The musical takes place in the 1940s in Indiana and focuses on a child named Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. After numerous regional productions, out of town tryouts and national tours, this version of the musical originally officially opened on Broadway in November 2012 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre for a limited engagement that ran through December 2012."
"works. The school musical is a high point not only for the drama department, but for all of the performing arts at Hunter. Members of the choir often join the cast for the play along with the drama students, and the Wind Ensemble and Orchestra combine for the Pit Orchestra, which provides the music. Recent productions include ""The King and I"" (2004), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2005), ""Camelot"" (2006), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1987 stage play) (2007),""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"" (2008 and 2014), ""White Christmas"" (2009), ""Bye Bye Birdie"" (2010), ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"""
"of a Musical. On 10 June 2012, it won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Actor in a Musical. Once (film) Once is a 2007 Irish romantic musical drama film written and directed by John Carney. The film stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as two struggling musicians in Dublin, Ireland. Hansard and Irglová had previously performed music as the Swell Season, and composed and performed the film's original songs. ""Once"" spent years in development with the Irish Film Board and was made for a budget of €112,000."
"to commit to it. In 2015 we met with the producer, Phil McIntyre, and agreed to develop the idea. Soon after that, Paul Whitehouse came on board and things have been bubbling away ever since. I am very pleased and excited to say that the show will be launching early next year."" The musical is due to launch on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. ""Only Fools and Horses"" spawned many merchandising spin-offs. Several books have been published, such as """"The Only Fools and Horses Story"""" by Steve Clark and """"The Complete A-Z of Only Fools and"
"Faulconer, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Ben Krieger, Eli Tokash and Mitchell Wray. ""Note: Below are the principal casts of all professional major productions."" Notes: Act I Act II Finding Neverland (musical) Finding Neverland is an original musical with music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and a book by James Graham. Inspired by the 1998 play ""The Man Who Was Peter Pan"" by Allan Knee and his 2004 adaptation ""Finding Neverland"", the musical made its world premiere at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in 2012, with the reworked version making its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory"
"in ""The New York Times"". After Lamplighters Music Theatre of San Francisco planned a 2016 production, objections by the East Asian-American community prompted them to re-set the operetta in Renaissance-era Milan, replacing all references to Japan with Milan. Reviewers felt that the change resolved the issue. ""The King and I"" is a musical by Richard Rodgers (composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyricist). Based on the 1944 novel ""Anna and the King of Siam"" by Margaret Landon, the story illustrates the clash of Eastern and Western cultures by relaying the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the"
"The Last Ship (musical) The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey. Inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the musical premiered in the summer of 2014, at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway. The musical received two Tony Award nominations in 2015, for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations. In September 2011, it was confirmed that British musician Sting was working on a musical, following rumours the"
"13–22 June 2014. The world premiere received mixed reviews with critics being most enthusiastic about performances by the cast, production design and choreography, but less enthusiastic about its book and some ""predictable"" musical numbers. However, most critics have found highlights in all the different elements of the musical. They have compared it to such works as ""Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"" for having ""something of the same infectious cheerfulness"" and likened its ""light-hearted charm and touching moments"" to ""Legally Blonde"" and ""Mamma Mia!"". Soho Cinders Soho Cinders is a musical with music by George Stiles, lyrics and a book"
"""The Wind in the Willows"", a musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel, opened at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in October 2016 before heading to The Lowry in Salford and London's West End. The book was written by Julian Fellowes who Stiles and Drewe previously worked with on ""Mary Poppins"" and ""Half a Sixpence"". The production is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (who also directed ""Half a Sixpence"") with set and costume design by Peter McKintosh and lighting design by Howard Harrison. Independently, George is the composer of Moll Flanders (winner of Best Musical in the 1995 TMA Awards), Tom Jones (Theatre"