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2 unusual facts about Sherlock Holmes: The Musical


Sherlock Holmes: The Musical

The story concerns a 1901 confrontation between Holmes and his old arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty; Moriarty's brilliant daughter Bella proves to be an even more determined (and beautiful) foe than her father.

It is also one of over 50 stage productions based on the Holmes character; see adaptations of Sherlock Holmes.


A Double Barrelled Detective Story

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.

A Study in Terror

The film inspired the writing of Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, blending the story of Sherlock Holmes and the world of H.G Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.

Arizona Onstage Productions

In 2005, the company received two nominations for best musical (one for Joel Payley's Ruthless! The Musical, and one for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain), two nominations for Best Actress and one for Best Actor.

Arthur Marvin

He directed the short film Sherlock Holmes Baffled, which was the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes.

Bad Girls: The Musical

New inmate Rachel Hicks arrives in prison terrified – not helped by the brusque manner of jaded Senior Officer Sylvia "BodyBag" Hollamby.

Principal Officer Jim Fenner – who believes he's been unfairly passed over for the position of Wing Governor – is dismayed to see Helen making yet another appearance on the wing.

Bark! The Musical

The LA world premiere cast include Joe Souza as Rachmaninoff, Katherine Von Till as Chanel, Ginny McMath as Boo, Robert Clink as Chester, Joshua Finkel as Ben, and Laurie Johnson as Molly.

Basil Copper

In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August Derleth.

Baskerville Holmes

His unique name was given to him by his mother who was inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Boobs! The Musical

J. Robert Spencer, Jenny-Lynn Suckling, Robert Hunt, Kristy Cates, Clyde Alves, Alena Watters, Brad Bradley, Tony Falcon, Benjie Randall and the New York theatre debut of Gennifer Flowers.

Charles Edward Pogue

Charles Edward Pogue is a film and television writer who has worked in the sci-fi/fantasy, horror, and thriller genres, and he has also scripted several Sherlock Holmes adaptations (The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Hands of a Murderer).

Dracula, the Musical

This version included 6 new songs, performed by a 40-piece orchestra and a European cast, led by Thomas Borchert.

The UK premiere of the musical took place in March 2010 at The Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

Egyptian cigarette industry

Arthur Conan Doyle paid a casual tribute to the popularity of Egyptian cigarettes in his 1904 story "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", where a character interviewed by Sherlock Holmes in a murder investigation is described as a very heavy consumer of them.

Evil Dead: The Musical

With the approval of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, a musical version of the film was first staged as a workshop in Toronto in August 2003 and performances at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004.

Evolution: The Musical!

"The Beasties" take advantage of this opportunity, and close in on "The Blesseds." At this point, Charles Darwin, appears and stops "The Beasties" in a similar fashion.

Focal character

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works of Sherlock Holmes, Watson is the viewpoint character, but the story revolves around Holmes, making him the focal character.

Frank Giacoia

Giacoia also worked on the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man (based on the same-name Marvel comic-book series) from 1978–1981, as well as on the strips Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, Sherlock Holmes and Thorne McBride.

Frank Shacklock

Shacklock may have been the inspiration for the naming of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.

Gary Seligson

Currently, Gary can be found at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre where he is the percussionist for Broadway musical Motown.

Gasogene

The gasogene is mentioned as a residential fixture at 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia: "With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner."

Gutenberg! The Musical!

His beautiful (but dim) assistant Helvetica is in love with him, but Gutenberg is unaware of her feelings.

Idol: The Musical

When the cloth is stripped away the audience realizes this is a fan club for Clay Aiken!

Inspector Lestrade

Mikhail Boyarsky played the role of Inspector Lestrade in the Russian TV adaptation, Sherlock Holmes.

Jacob Zachar

He has performed in various theater roles such as On Golden Pond, Prairie Lights, Big: The Musical, Les Misérables and Guys and Dolls.

Jesus Christ: The Musical

The film goes through various places such as a shop, with Jesus walking around singing "I Will Survive".

Leslie S. Hiscott

During the 1930s he became best known for his mystery films, also working on portrayals of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and A. E. W. Mason's Inspector Hanaud.

Matthias McDonnell Bodkin

His character Paul Beck, a private detective with comfortable lodgings in Chester, was an Irish Sherlock Holmes with a very original yet logical method for detecting crime.

Medea, the Musical

Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).

Netherlands national cricket team

English touring teams then began visiting in 1886 including one in 1891 that featured the author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Of the City of the Saved...

Various fictional characters appear as artificial constructs within the City, including Sherlock Holmes and Don Juan DeMarco.

Peter Cannon

His fiction includes Pulptime (W,. Paul Ganley, Publisher), in which Lovecraft, Long and Sherlock Holmes team up to solve a mystery; Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (Wodecraft Press, 1994), which retells some of Lovecraft's stories in the voice of P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster.

Pother Kanta

It is one of the first forays that Sharadindu took in the realm of creating a mature logical detective moulded in the pattern of Sherlock Holmes in the Bengali language, and one that Bengalis could immediately identify with.

Psych: The Musical

During a briefing at the SBPD station, Shawn exits to accept a Skype video call from Mr. Yang.

Self-Reliance

In the CBS TV Show Elementary Season 1X06 episode The Red Team, Sherlock Holmes uses Emerson's quote, although he leaves out 'A foolish' and just says "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Watson" to his female assistant, Joan Watson, in a conversation about conspiracy and murder.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

A few leads point to the docks by the Thames, and there, Holmes and Watson learn that similar kidnappings have occurred.

Simon Sues

Most of the themes of the comic are based on various detective stories such as Sherlock Holmes, as well as H. P. Lovecraft and M. R. James.

The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby

"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.

The Grapes

Other popular writers have been fascinated by Limehouse: Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Conan Doyle, who sent Sherlock Holmes in search of opium provided by the local Chinese immigrants; and, more recently, Peter Ackroyd in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.

The Man with the Twisted Lip

In 1964, the story was adapted into an episode of the 1964 BBC series Sherlock Holmes starring Douglas Wilmer.

The Problem of the Covered Bridge

He even notices that Hank is reading copies of Hearst's International magazine that include the two-part Sherlock Holmes story, The Problem of Thor Bridge.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

The novel is brought up to the present, where a freelance illustrator and avid fan of mysteries, Kazumi Ishioka, is teaching his friend, the brilliant astrologer Kiyoshi Mitarai (who plays the Holmes to Ishioka's Watson) about the Zodiac Murders; Ishioka had been approached by a client who claimed to have new evidence about the murders.

TromaDance

The idea for TromaDance was developed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman, who got the idea from South Park co-creator Trey Parker (whose debut film, Cannibal! The Musical, was distributed by Troma).

Vitebsky railway station

In a departure from normal practice of the Soviet years, the Vitebsk station preserved its elevated train shed, five platforms and luggage elevators almost intact, making it an ideal location for filming Soviet adaptations of Anna Karenina, Sherlock Holmes stories, and other 19th-century classics.

Waddesdon Manor

It was used as the O'Connell family's home in the film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and as the front part of the 'Hotel du Triomphe' in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

William Mycroft

The first Sherlock Holmes story was published two years later and there is a suggestion that Arthur Conan Doyle derived the name of Mycroft the younger brother of Sherlock Holmes from William Mycroft.


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