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Howard Goodall

HOWARD GOODALL

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    PBJ Management  

Howard Goodall CBe is an eMMY, BRIT and BAFTA-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals (including the Hired Man and Love Story), film and TV scores (including Blackadder and the Vicar of Dibley).

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

         Bend It Like Beckham         Days Of Hope         Dreaming, The         Hired Man         Kissing Dance, The         Love Story         Mandrake, The         Two Cities         Winter's Tale, The
Bend It Like Beckham

Synopsis:
Jess needs extra time. She is facing the most important decision of her life; live up to family expectations of university, career and marriage, or follow in the footsteps of her hero David Beckham. When the talented teenage footballer is spotted playing football in Southall, a world of opportunities opens up before her. But as the day of her sister's traditional Indian wedding approaches, Jess needs to pick sides.

Notes:
musical adaptation of the film by Gurinder Chadha with music by Howard Goodall, lyrics by Charles Hart and book by Gurinder chaha and paul Mayeda Berges

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  9+            Female:  9+            Other:  -

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Days Of Hope

Synopsis:
DAYS OF HOPE is set in Spain in 1939, in the dying moments of the Spanish Civil War. The story begins with a family celebrating the marriage of the daughter, Sofia, to an English volunteer, but the wedding meal is tinged with anger at Franco and his fascists. They plan to escape that night to England with Sofia's groom, Stanley, but before the plan is executed, various visitors over the course of the evening bring different perspectives upon their condemnation of Franco, of Mussolini and Hitler for their intervention, and of Britain's non-intervention. . .The family ends up being torn apart, trying to decide whether to flee or stay and fight. Howard was inspired to write Days of Hope by the political events occurring in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, and was interested that the ideas of freedom and democracy would be seen differently through the eyes of a country which was just discovering their meaning. Relating this to his choice of the Spanish Civil War as a setting for his musical, he said, "I felt that the best way to look at freedom and democracy was to look at it when it was collapsing and failing".

Notes:
Music and Lyrics: Howard Goodall, Book By Renata Allen

1st Produced:
Hampstead, London     1991

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1b

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Dreaming, The

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Linbury Studio, London     2001

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Hired Man

Synopsis:
Celebration of labouring life in Cumberland between the 1890's and 1922 on the farm, down the pit and at the Great War as reflected in the marriage of plain John Tallantire and his intelligent wife emily

Notes:
book by Melvyn Bragg; music And lyrics by Howard Goodall; based on the novel by Melvin Bragg

1st Produced:
Nuffield, Southampton     1984

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   

Music:
Original cast recording: Polydor (POLH 18)

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Kissing Dance, The

Synopsis:
a joyful musical adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy She Stoops to Conquer, Howard Goodall and Charles Hart's vibrant musical receives its professional premiere at Jermyn Street theatre. In the great hall at Nonesuch, young heiress Kate Hardcastle and her cousin Constance prepare to receive their suitors. But Kate's formidable mother Mrs Hardcastle and the mischievous Tony Lumpkin have other ideas, leading to a brilliant musical comedy of mistaken identity and disguise. For tonight is all Fools' eve, when the world can be turned upside down by determined young lovers.

Notes:
Music by Howard Goodall; lyrics by Charles Hart; book by Charles Hart

1st Produced:
National Youth Musical Theatre, London     1998

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 313

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Love Story

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Music by Howard Goodall, book by Stephen Clark And lyrics by Clark And Goodall

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Mandrake, The

Synopsis:
Set in sixteenth-century Florence, the play blends songs and robust action in detailing the hilarious lengths to which the smitten Callimaco goes in winning the favors of Lucrezia, the beautiful young wife of the rich and aged lawyer, Nicia. Fnlisting the aid of the artful trickster Ligurio, Callimaco is passed off as a doctor who has devised a magic potion which, he promises Nicia, will make the heretofore childless Lucrezia conceive. But the catch is that the first man who sleeps with her after she takes the potion will die. Lucrezia's gullible mother and a venal friar, Brother Timothy, are also persuaded to help overcome Lucrezia's scruples against bedding down with a man not her husband (and who needless to say, turns out to be Callimaco in disguise). the resulting twists and turns lead on to nonstop high spirits and hilarity until, in the end, everyone gets exactly what he hopes for and, quite possibly, deserves.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Machiavelli, Aka Madragola, music And lyrics by Howard Goodall

1st Produced:
New York     1977

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Two Cities

Synopsis:
ased on Charles Dickens epic novel Tale of Two Cities transposing the Parisian half of the original story to St Petersburg

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Music And lyrics by Howard Goodall, book by Joanna Read And Howard Goodal

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Winter's Tale, The

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by Nick Stimson, music & lyrics by Howard Goodall

1st Produced:
Sage, Gateshead    

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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