Rupert Holmes adapted this unfinshed Dickens work into a 1985 play-within-a-play musical
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"Flying Dreams" Remember WENN Website: Rupert Holmes Articles  1985"For years I was an apple trying to be an orange," Rupert Holmes reflected last week ... very loosely based on an unfinished Charles Dickens novel that Mr. Holmes ... In Mr. Holmes's play-within-a-play format, the performers are a Victorian music ... This is not Nicholas Nickleby set to musicit's not a Dickensian work.
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'Drood' is a merry musical - Mount Shasta Herald  Nov 27, 2007 ... If you like your winter holidays spiced with a bit of Charles Dickens but would rather ... Adapted for the stage from the author's final but unfinished novel, this merry musical by Rupert Holmes takes us back to Victorian ... did not just adapt Dickens' story, but framed it within the device of a play within a play..
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Cracking the Case of Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel The ...  Nov 1, 2012 ... Pop composer Rupert Holmes' musical version of Drood was inspired by his ... as a play-within-a-play, with the actors playing dual roles as Drood characters ... The Mystery of Edwin Drood debuted in August 1985 at Central Park's ... Broadway-Aimed 13 Going on 30 Musical Stage Adaptation in the Works.
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'Drood' is a merry musical - Neosho Daily News  Nov 27, 2007 ... If you like your winter holidays spiced with a bit of Charles Dickens but would rather ... Adapted for the stage from the author's final but unfinished novel, this merry musical by Rupert Holmes takes us back to Victorian ... did not just adapt Dickens' story, but framed it within the device of a play within a play..
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Drood - Wikipedia  The Mystery of Edwin Drood (or Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It is written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with ... Productions, 1985 Broadway .... The cast members of Drood do not specifically play Dickens' characters, but rather music...
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Stage Line/Time Line: A Musical Adventure - The Yale-New Haven ...  That book was the basis for a 1930-31 play that ran only 69 performances before closing. ... It went by the title Away We Go, and it did not impress theatre-goers. ... that Oklahoma! would break the world's record for consecutive performances. ... The teacher will draw the students' attention to Rodgers and Hammerstein's use...
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REVIEW: Times Square Angel, Union Theatre - British Theatre  Nov 29, 2014 ... It's a simple enough formula, but with Times Square Angel is doesn't quite work. ... in Dickens' A Christmas Carol or in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, ... the guise of Times Square Angel, a play by Charles Busch currently...
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T.S. Eliot - News - IMDb  The Broadway production of Cats is hoping for as much success with its online ... play is based on the novel by T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. .... a film adaptation of the long-running musical for Universal and Working Title.
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Jerome Coopersmith - Revolvy  His Broadway musical, " Baker Street " (1965), based on the stories of Sherlock ... also featured in an elaborate scene of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Parade. ... The show ran in 1974 at the Bil Baird Marionette Theater in New York City. In 1988, shortly after Baird's death, "Pinocchio" was brought back to life, with his...
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Partially Obstructed View: Theatre review: As You Like It (RSC / RST ...  Partially Obstructed View: Theatre review: As You Like It (RSC / RST & TR Newcastle) | See more ... 2010 Set model by Ralph Koltai for the National Theatre's 1967 production of As You Like It As you like it, .... Jaques in the Forest of Arden.
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The bloody killing of the real-life Nancy that so obsessed Charles ...  Apr 17, 2009 ... For while researching her novel The Twisted Heart, which is published this ... Dickens originally conceived Oliver Twist as only a short series, ... of the day who had appeared in many plays based on the author's work. ... In Lionel Bart's musical, Nancy is murdered on the steps leading to London Bridge.
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Cracking the Case of Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel The ...  Nov 1, 2012 ... Even the greatest sleuths can't get to the bottom of Charles Dickens' ... musical, which is back on Broadway this fall in its first major revival. ... He died a day later, thus leaving the ending of The Mystery of Edwin Droodwell, a mystery. ... who appears on the case six months after Drood's disappearance?
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Copperfield  Broadway Musical  Original | IBDB  Apr 13, 1981 ... Copperfield (Musical, Original) opened in New York City Apr 13, 1981 and played through Apr 26, 1981. ... Based on the book "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens; Musical Director: Larry Blank; Vocal arrangements by Larry Blank; Music orchestrated by Irwin Kostal; ... Christian Slater, Billy Mowcher.
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Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim  Reviews, Discussion ...  I had never read a musical play before, it was a bit odd, for instance: the plot is too ... While the young boy and his mother that's a story to unsolved. .... Into the Woods explores the mixing of multiple different fairytales in an incredibly organized ..... One of the best modern musicals, the score itself is at times evocative of opera.
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A Christmas Carol (play) - Wikipedia  Written by, Charles Dickens Adapted by Patrick Stewart. Date premiered, 1987. Place premiered, Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Original language, English. Genre, Drama/Monodrama. A Christmas Carol is a one-man stage performance by English actor Patrick Stewart of the Charles Dickens novel of ... developing an adaptation of the story to be performed in a one-man show.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Roald Dahl  Released in 1968, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical film adaptation loosely based on Ian Fleming's children's book of the same name.
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teacher study guide - Cygnet Theatre  A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale centering on the mean-spirited, miserly old ... school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his ... dead man is his own, Scrooge desperately implores the spirit to alter his fate. ... after Scrooge became consumed with greed and the lust for wealth.
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film) - Wikipedia  Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 American rock musical horror comedy film directed by Frank Oz. It is a film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical comedy of the same name by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a vicious, raunchy plant that feeds on ... Attracting business to Mushnik's shop, the plant soon starts dying, worrying...
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Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine - PlayMakers Repertory ...  In addition to Into the Woods, his works as composer-lyricist include A Funny ... the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George, one of only...
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A Tale of Two Cities - Wikipedia  A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and ..... In his book A Tale of Two Cities, based on the French Revolution, we see that he ..... Arthur Benjamin's operatic version of the novel, subtitled Romantic ... was premiered by the BBC on 17 April 1953, conducted by the composer;...
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Musicals that should have never been made [Archive] - Straight ...  What are some of the strangest, funniest, down-right odd Broadway musicals ... and Hammerstein) very last musical on its pre-Broadway run -- Rex. It starred Nicol Williamson as the titular Henry VIII , and was eminently forgettable. ... By the way, King Richard's Faire here in Massachusetts put on a musical...