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Cy Coleman

CY COLEMAN

  (1929 - 2004)
Nationality:    USA
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Cy Coleman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         13 Days To Broadway         Barnum         City Of Angels         Great Ostrovsky, The         Home Again, Home Again         Life, The         Little Me         On the Twentieth Century         Sweet Charity         Welcome To the Club         Will Rogers Follies, The

13 Days To Broadway

Synopsis:
Back stage on a musical flop

Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Barbara Fried; book by Russell Baker; Bruce Villanch.

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Genre:
Musical

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Barnum

Barnum
P T Barnum - showman believes that there is a sucker born every minute. At his circus he has the oldest woman alive and Tom Thumb. His wife Charity urges him to get a proper job. He hires singer Jenny Lind and when she goes on tour goes with her. He finally returns to Charity. His circus travels all over the world. After Charity dies he combines with another circus show and becomes Barnum and Bailey

Notes:
by Mark Bramble; Music by Cy Colemen. Lyrics by Michael Stewart

1st Produced:
St James Theater, New York    30 Apr 1980

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Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (36576)

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Genre:
Musical

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City Of Angels

City Of Angels
Pulp writer Stine is trying to write his first screenplay using his private eye character Stone. His wife wishes that he would stick to what he knows - writing novels but he perseveres. Stone in the script has been hired to find the missing step-daughter of a voluptuous rich woman.

Notes:
By Cy Coleman And David Zippel, Book Larry Gelbart

1st Produced:
Virginia Theatre, New York    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Applause Books, 2000   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (CK - 46067) 1990

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  10            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Great Ostrovsky, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music and lyrics by Cy Coleman; book by Avery Corman

1st Produced:
Prince Musiv Theatre, Philadelphia    06 Mar 2004

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Home Again, Home Again

Synopsis:
A man's fifty year search for values and the American Dream

Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Barbara Fried; book by Russell Baker

1st Produced:
American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut    -

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Life, The

Life, The
Times Square as it used to be - the pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and runaways

Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Ira Gasman; Book by David Newman, Ira Gasman And Cy Coleman; Based on An original idea by Ira Gasman

1st Produced:
Westbeth Theatre Center    -

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Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (SK-63312) 1997

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Little Me

Little Me
This whopping, whirling musical burlesque charting the rise to fame and fortune of Bell Poitrine, the queen of the silver screen. This little girl from the wrong side of the tracks, finds her way to the right side, with the help of several willing gentlemen!

Notes:
music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York    17 Nov 1962

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1st Published:
in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York, 1979   -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (61482)

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On the Twentieth Century

On the Twentieth Century
after four flops in a row, megalomaniac theatre impresario, Oscar Jaffee, and his hapless entourage are on the run. Desperately trying to resuscitate his flat-lining career he books a carriage on the Twentieth Century Limited, the world's most famous express train, bound for New York. In the next carriage resides his former sweetheart turned Hollywood starlet Lily Garland. Now Oscar has just 16 hours to entice the egotistical Lily back on to the stage, as the leading lady in his next show. Oscar's financial ruin hangs in the balance and a jealous lover is on the loose. Offered funding by religious fanatic Letitia Peabody Primrose, Jaffee's dreams fall into a glorious, and by turns hilarious, balancing act of keeping everyone happy. Set against a backdrop of the great American Depression of the 1930s, what unfolds is a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale of the pitfalls of producing theatre when cash is tight and private money comes at an unavoidable cost.

Notes:
Book by Betty Comden And Adolph Green; Lyrics by Betty Comden And Adolph Green; Music by Cy Coleman; Based on the play by Ben Hecht, Charles Macarthur And Bruce Milholland

1st Produced:
St James Theater, New York    1978

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Music:
Original cast recording:Sony (35330) 1978

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Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a gullible and guileless girl who always gives her heart and dreams to the wrong man. When she meets the nervy Oscar in a lift, she hopes to put her misfortune in love behind her.

Notes:
Book by Neil Simon; Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields; Based on the screenplay "Nights of Cabiria" by Federico Fellini; Musical Director: Fred Werner; Dance arrangements by Fred Werner; Music orchestrated by Ralph Burns

1st Produced:
Palace Theatre, New York    29 Jan 1966

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Original Broadway cast recording: Columbia (2900) 1966

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Welcome To the Club

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Cy Coleman And A e Hotchner; book by A e Hotchner

1st Produced:
Music Box Theatre, New York    13 Apr 1989

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Will Rogers Follies, The

Will Rogers Follies, The
the life of Will Rogers as told by Will and with embellishments from Florenz Ziegfield. at nineteen Will runs away from home and goes to South America to be a cowboy. He meets the love of his life - Betty Blake on a train. Ziegfield decides that this is not romantic enough - so instead of the train she floats down from the sky seated on the moon. Some years later Will is playing in a Wild West Revue and he marries Betty. Ziegfield says that a grand wedding should be the finale of act one. So Will and Betty have four children and Will goes to work at the Ziegfield Follies where he becomes a huge success. He is also a radio star now and he is just about to leave for Hollywood when Ziegfield says it is nearly time for the interval - so they have the grand wedding. In Hollywood Will is also a great success - he is asked to run for President. Ziegfield looses his fortune and the Depression gets worse. President Hoover asks Will to broadcast to the Nation to boost morale. He does and everyone is inspired. In alaska he goes for a plane ride with his friend Wiley - they never come back.

Notes:
Book by Peter Stone; Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Betty Comden And Adolph Green; Music Arranged by Cy Coleman; Inspired by the words of Will Rodgers And Betty Rodgers

1st Produced:
Palace Theater, New York    01 May 1991

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Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (48606) 1991

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Genre:
life in revue Musical

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