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unusual facts about musical play



Balada pro banditu

Balada pro banditu (English: A Ballad for a Bandit) is a Czech stage musical play and film with music by Miloš Štědroň and screeenplay by Milan Uhde.

Tales of the South Pacific

The highly successful musical play South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, was based on the stories in Tales of the South Pacific. In particular, the stories used were Fo' Dollah, about Bloody Mary, Liat, and Lieutenant Cable; and Our Heroine, about Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque.

The Yashmak

The Yashmak, A Story of the East is a musical play, with a libretto by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks, adapted from an Armenian operetta, Leblébidji Horhor, which had been a success in 1896 in Constantinople.


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A Country Girl

A Country Girl, or, Town and Country is a musical play in two acts by James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank, music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens.

Annie Londonderry

In 2011, Evalyn Parry premiered her musical play about Londonderry called SPIN.

Aunt Bam's Place

Aunt Bam's Place is a 2011 American musical play created, written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry.

Berlin Comedian Harmonists

The group has its origins in the ensemble brought together for the musical play Veronika, der Lenz ist da - Die Comedian Harmonists (Veronica, Spring Has Come - The Comedian Harmonists), which had its premiere on 19 December 1997 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

Brunswick Four

Their chosen song, “I Enjoy Being A Dyke” (a parody of "I Enjoy Being a Girl", a song by Rodgers and Hammerstein from the musical play Flower Drum Song) drew the attention of the bar's owner.

Cherry Sisters

The Cherry Sisters have been the subject of at least two contemporary theatrical productions: Cherry Bomb, a comedic musical play produced and performed by 1812 Productions in Philadelphia, and Cherry Sisters Revisited, a 2006 play by Dan O'Brien.

E. Ray Goetz

He co-wrote the 50 Million Frenchmen musical play with Herbert Fields and Cole Porter which was released as the 1930 Warner Brothers film Fifty Million Frenchmen.

Industrial Symphony No. 1

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted is a short, avant-garde musical play directed by David Lynch, with music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise.

K35

Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35, a sacred musical play by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Les Nickelettes

In 1981 Les Nickelettes collaborated with underground comic book artist Diane Noomin to create an original musical play based on her character Didi Glitz: I'd Rather Be Doing Something Else - The Didi Glitz Story.

Maggie Ollerenshaw

Her one-woman show Yours Sincerely, a musical play about Dame Vera Lynn has played in the UK and abroad.

Marie Dainton

At the Strand Theatre in London in 1902 she appeared in the successful musical play A Chinese Honeymoon.

Michelle Yim

In 1990, she performed in another musical play, Cyrano De Bergerac, a story adapted from French literature.

Nat Sakdatorn

In August 2008, Sakdatorn acted in a musical play adapted from Madame Butterfly as Prince Yamadori.

Orvin – Champion Of Champions

Orvin – Champion Of Champions is a 2003 musical play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, with music by Denis King.

Oussama Rahbani

In 2003, he took part as composer in Moulouk al Tawaef, a musical play by Mansour Rahbani and in 2004, wrote a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in Arabic title Akher Yom with choreography by Debbie Allen and also composed Hekm el Reayen yet another musical play by Mansour Rahbani.

Rosa May

Her story is also dramatized in the musical play, Nevada Belle by George Morgan and Duane Ashby.

Shear Madness

The Boston production is sometimes described as the longest-running or second-longest-running non-musical play in the world, although various non-musical plays have run for longer: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap in London since 1952, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano in Paris since 1957, and Israel Horovitz's Line in New York City since 1974.

State Fair

The title of a 1932 novel by Phil Stong, which inspired three American films and a musical play

Stephen Fewell

He has also appeared in classical theatre, in various Doctor Who audio productions, an episode of the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Courtroom, Headlong Theatre's production of Paradise Lost at the Hackney Empire and in the musical play ENRON at the Royal Court and in the West End.

U.P. Naming Mahal

In 1997, a musical play entitled "Lean" was held to commemorate the 10th year since the assassination of a prominent U.P. student leader in 1987, Leandro Alejandro.

Village South Theatre

Located on Vandam Street in Greenwich Village, the theatre opened in 1962 with the original production of Jean Erdman's award-winning musical play The Coach with the Six Insides which was based upon James Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake.

Wayne Duvall

In November 2009, he acted in a musical play at the La Jolla Playhouse in California—as the Sheriff in Frank Wildhorn's musical Bonnie & Clyde slated for Broadway in 2011.