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DAVID SHAW (1916 - 2007)
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Redhead They Should Have Stood In Bed TovarichRedhead
1900 a young actress has been murdered. The Simpson Sisters Waxworks installs a tableaux of the event which upsets actor Tom Baxter who had a soft spot for the dead actress. So that she can see him again, Essie, the sisters' neice, claims she ahs been attacked by the murderer.
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Written by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon And David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Dorothy Fields
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 05 Feb 1959
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1st Published:
- fa-61995
Music:
Original cast recording: Fynsworth Alley: (61995) 1959
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 7 Other: chorus
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Written by Frank Tarloff, Leo Rifkin And David Shaw
1st Produced:
Mansfield Theatre, New York 1942
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 17 Female: 2 Other: -
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Two members of the Russian Royal Family pose as French servants. The Czar had entrusted them with a fortune which they had placed in a Parisian bank and they wait for the Czar to escape from the Bolsheviks
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Book by David Shaw; Music by Lee Pockriss; Lyrics by Anne Croswell; Based on the comedy by Jacques Deval And Robert E. Sherwood
1st Produced:
Broadway Theater, New York 1963
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1st Published:
- ocr-tovarich
Music:
Original cast recording: Capitol Records 1963
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 6 Other: -
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