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STEVEN DEXTER
(1962 - )
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South African
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Maddie
When Nick and Jan Cheyney move into a new San Francisco apartment, they discover a message written in lipstick beneath layers of peeling wallpaper. the writer, Maddie Marsh, was a wannabe silent movie star who died just as her career was taking off. Maddie possesses the drab Jan, determined to have another crack at fame, and Nick falls in love with Maddie in his wife's body, causing all manner of mayhem.
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Book by Shaun McKenna & Steven Dexter, Lyrics by Shaun McKenna, Music by Stephen Keeling. Lyric theatre, Shaftesbury Ave 1997
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1st Published:
Warner Chappell, -
Music:
London cast recording: Dress Circle (CD 003) 1997
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Genre:
Romantic musical comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: ensemble
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Twist Of Fate, A
Synopsis:
An English couple on holiday in Singapore find an abandoned baby on the steps of their hotel. They adopt her and take her back to England. Twenty years later she finds a golden hairpin amongst her adoptive father's effects. Meanwhile back in Singapore Lim Chin Boon is dying someone claiming to be his grand daughter turns up
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Music by Dick Lee; lyrics by Anthony Drew; book by Steven Dexter; Tony Petito
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