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Kit Hesketh-Harvey

KIT HESKETH-HARVEY

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    PBJ Management  

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below is a list of Kit Hesketh-Harvey's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beautiful And Damned         Dear Btutus         Five O'Clock Angel         Killing Rasputin         Kismet         Kit And the Widow's Christmas Roast         Orlando         Troy Boy         Varjak Paw         Which Witch         Yusupov

Beautiful And Damned

Synopsis:
This evocative and glittering musical, set in the 1920's, follows the story of an outrageously glamorous and fashionable couple - the Scott Fitzgeralds. He's a successful young author and she's the stylish young wife who, together, become the envy of all with their high spending and high-flying lifestyle. they created their own world of enchantment. Scott christened the period the Jazz age, and Zelda lived it. Yet the darker tale that lay behind the dazzling facade just begged to be told. British singer/songwriter Roger Cook (I d Like To Teach the World To Sing/Talking In Your Sleep) felt this was definitely the case and linking up with an old friend and fellow songwriter, Les Reed (It's Not Unusual/Delilah), along with bookwriter Kit Hesketh Harvey (the Vicar Of Dibley) they set about creating a musical out of the fabled couple who epitomised the triumph and the tragedy of the decade.

Notes:
Music Roger Cook; Lyrics Les Reed; Book by Kit Hesketh Harvey; Other Phil Willmott (additional material)

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Genre:
Musical

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Dear Btutus

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Notes:
written by Julian Slade and Kit Hesketh Harvey

1st Produced:
unproduced    1984

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Five O'Clock Angel

Synopsis:
based on the thirty-five year friendship and correspondence between Tennessee Williams and his closest female friend, the white russian emigre actress Maria, Lady Saint Just, the play ('a gem' - Daily Mail) charts his descent and her ascent in a two-hander which is 'funny, outrageous, illuminating and ultimately very moving' - Times

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Play/Drama

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Killing Rasputin

Killing Rasputin
When we first meet Yusupov he is a transvestite performing in a St Petersburgh night-club trying to seduce Dmitri Romanov, nephew to the Tsar. His meeting with Rasputin, however signals a spiritual transformation but as Yusupov begins to abandon the trappings of his decadent life, Rasputin correspondingly descends into spiritual degeneration dragging the imperial family down with him. To save the Romanov dynasty and the Russia he loves Yusupov has only one option: to kill his erstwhile saviour.

Notes:
Music by James McConnel; lyrics by Kit Hesketh-Harvey; book by Stephen Clark; book by Kit Hesketh-Harvey

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Kismet

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Notes:
Revisions / Additional material by Kit Heketh-Harvey And Luther DavisWith Music From Alexander Borodin; Musical Adaptation by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Lyrics by Robert Wright And George Forrest; Book by Charles Lederer And Luther Davis; From the play by edward Knoblock

1st Produced:
Coliseum, London    2007

Organisations:
English National Opera

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Kit And the Widow's Christmas Roast

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Notes:
written And performed by by Kit Hesketh-Harvey And Richard Sissons

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Just for Laughs live

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Genre:
Cabaret Show

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Orlando

Synopsis:
Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history, and compensates for its hero's loss of the ancestral house which embodies that history in one astonishing coup de theatre ('I cannot recommend 'Writing Orlando' too highly' - BBC Kaleidoscope)

Notes:
Won the Vivian ellis Prize for new musical theatre. Rewritten As Writing Orlando (Bridewell, London), 1994

1st Produced:
Guildhall School, London    1988

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Genre:
Musical

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Troy Boy

Synopsis:
a new and witty translation of Offenbach's La Belle Helene, the story of Helen of Troy, accompanied by a string trio, piano and woodwind. Stuck in suburbia the beautiful Helen's fed up with her ridiculously dull husband, Menelaus. However, she's trying to be good. She really is. But what can you do when the gods have other ideas and there's a handsome young man waiting to whisk you away on an adventure? Decisions! Decisions! What will she do? and whatever will be the consequences?!

Notes:
Music by Jacques Offenbach, original libretto (as La Belle Hellene) by Henri Meilhac And Ludovic Halevy, in A version by Kit Hesketh-Hardy

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Merry Opera Compan

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Genre:
165 min Translation

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Varjak Paw

Synopsis:
Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue Cat. He lives a good life in the house on the hill until one day a mysterious gentleman and his two black cats arrive and he is forced out to fend for himself. In the City he finds that he has a magical gift

Notes:
Music by Julian Philips; lyrics and book by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Based on the books by S F Said

1st Produced:
Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke    39702

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Which Witch

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Notes:
Operamusical By Benedicte Adrian And Ingrid Bjornov, lyrics by Kit Hesketh-Harvey

1st Produced:
Piccadilly, London    1992

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Genre:
Musical

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Yusupov

Synopsis:
a musicalisation, staged as a vaudeville in the 1905 Cabaret Spiegeltents of Saint Petersburg, of the astonishing story of the murder of Grigor Rasputin by his mirror-opposite, Prince Feliks Yusupov.

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Bridewell theatre    -

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