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Lionel Bart

LIONEL BART

  (1930 - 1999)
Nationality:    British
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Lionel Bart's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Lionel Bart's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blitz!         Fings Ain't Wot they Used T'Be         It's a Fine Life!         La Strada         Lock Up Your Daughters         Maggie May         Oliver         Quasimodo         Twang!!

Blitz!

Blitz!
Jewish Mrs Blitzstein has a stall in Petticoat Lane selling herring. the next stall belongs to Cockney alfie Locke - he sells fruit. they do not like each other. their children Carol Blitzstein and Georgie Locke have fallen in love

Notes:
Written by Lionel Bart And Joan Maitland; music And lyrics by Lionel Bart

1st Produced:
Adelphi Theatre    1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: eMI (97470) 1962

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fings Ain't Wot they Used T'Be

Fings Ain't Wot they Used T'Be
after a win on the horses petty criminal and gambling den owner, Fred, has the money to do up his establishment. It is the hang out for numerous underworld types from a burglar - Redhot - who can never get warm to Tosher the Ponce. Fred's moll - Lil just wants to get married and go straight

Notes:
music And lyrics by Lionel Bart; book by Frank Norman

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London
Secker & Warburg, 1960   978-0573080456

Music:
Original cast recording: Bayview

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  7            Other:  extras

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It's a Fine Life!

Synopsis:
It's a Fine Life! follows Bart's inspirational life story from East End rags to West End riches, from writing hit songs for Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard to his working relationship with Joan Littlewood at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and his close friendship with Barbara Windsor.

Notes:
music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, Book by Chris Bond

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Cut to the Chase

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
compilation musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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La Strada

La Strada
Gelsomina is sold by her mother to Zampano a circus strongman. Despite his brutish ways she falls in love with him. She shows great aptitude for being a clown and is soon the star of the circus. Zampano becomes jealous of her friendship with another clown Mario and he murders him

Notes:
Book by Charles K Peck Jr; Music And lyrics by Lionel Bart. Additional lyrics by Martin Charnin. Based on the film by Federico fellini

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York    25551

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Studio cast recording: Bayview (RNBW 028) 1967

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lock Up Your Daughters

Lock Up Your Daughters
London 1735. Young Hilerat wants to elope with Captain Constant. She accues Ramble - a ladies man - of raping her. Her servant, Cloris accuses Captain Constant of raping her. Both cases come up in front of Judge Squeezum

Notes:
Music by Laurie Johnson; lyrics by Lionel Bart; book by Bernard Miles. Based on the play "Rape Upon Rape" by Henry Fielding

1st Produced:
Mermaid, London    28 May 1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London   978-0573080364

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Maggie May

Maggie May
Union ethics and disputes and the life of prostitute Margaret Mary Duffy

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Bayview (RNBW 021)

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Oliver

Oliver
Fagin and the gang

Notes:
from the book by Charles Dickens

1st Produced:
New Theatre, London    1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Decca (820590) 1960

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Quasimodo

Synopsis:
Bart wrote the words and music for Quasimodo, based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre Dame de Paris in 1963. the poignant tale, set in 15th-century Paris, of the love between the deformed bellringer and the beautiful gypsy girl esmerelda nearly made it to Broadway, where it would undoubtedly have joined the list of Bart's stage hits: Lock Up Your Daughters, Fings Ain't Wot they Used t'Be, Oliver!, Blitz! and Maggie May. But there was disagreement about who should direct the show, and it was never produced in his lifetime.

Notes:
Based on the book "the Hunchback Of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo

1st Produced:
Kings Head Theatre, London    20 Mar 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Twang!!

Twang!!
Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to get into Nottingham Castle to prevent the wedding between the Scots Laird Robert the Ugly and Nottingham tart Delphina. If it goes ahead Prince John will get Scottish troops to help put down the english serfs

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Lionel Bart; book by Lionel Bart; Harvey Orkin

1st Produced:
Shaftesbury Theatre, London    24096

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: TeR (1055) 1965

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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