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TOM (2) JONES
(1928 - )
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110 In the Shade
a drought striken mid-Western town. Starbuck - the Rainmaker arrives. He tries to persuade Lizzie to run away with him but she prefers to remain with the sherrif.
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones. Based on "the Rainmaker" by Nathaniel Richard Nash.
1st Produced:
Broadhurst Theater, New York 24 Oct 1963
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third ave., New York, -
Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (1085-2-RG) 1963
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: large cast
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Anatol
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Musical
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Celebration
a New Year's eve party at the home of the very rich Alan Rich. Orphan is there looking for the garden of the orphanage. He meets angel and they fall in love. Alan says he will give the garden to Orphan if Orphan gives him angel. Orphan agrees but Alan reneges on the deal
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
ambassador Theater, New York 22 Jan 1969
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Original cast recording: Bay Cities (3015) 1969
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Musical
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Male: 10 Female: 6 Other: -
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Colette
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by elinor Jones. Based on the book "earthly Paradise" by Colette
1st Produced:
ellen StewArt Theatre, New York 06 May 1970
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Original cast recording: MIO (3001) 1970
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Collette Collage
80 year old Colette looks back over her life. at 18 she married Willy. Willy was an established author but he had a team of people writing for him and he published everything under his own name. Collete became one of the writers and her books became very popular but Willy refused to let her publish them under her own name.
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
York Playhouse, New York 1983
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Studio cast recording: Varese (VCD 5473) 1984
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Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: -
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Come In! Come In!
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics and book by Tom Jones
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Fantasticks, The
It tells the story of a young boy and girl who fall in love because of their meddling fathers, but become restless and stray from each other. Will distance make their hearts grow fonder or permanently separate them? the score features such well-known musical theatre standards as "Try to Remember," "Much More," and "I Can See It."
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music by Harvey Schmidt; book And lyrics by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
Sullivan Street Playhouse 03 May 1960
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1st Published:
Applause Books, 2000 -
Music:
Original cast recording: Polygram (B000001F7B)
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130 min Musical
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Theatre Record Volume XXX Issue 12 Page 643
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Harold And Maude - the Musical
the unlikely romance between a young man obsessed with death and an elderly woman in love with life.
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Music by Joseph Thalken; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by Tom Jones. Based on the film "Harold And Maude" screenplay by Colin Higgins
1st Produced:
New York -
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, -
Music:
Demo non-commercial recording 2004
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Musical
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Male: 9 Female: 8 Other: -
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I Do! I Do!
Setting: a bedroom. the story covers fifty years of marriage, beginning just before the turn of the century
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Book by Tom Jones; Lyrics by Tom Jones; Music by Harvey Schmidt; Based on "the Fourposter" by Jan De Hartog
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 24446
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Original cast recording: RCa (1128-2-RC) 1966
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Musical
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Mirette
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by Elizabeth Diggs; Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
Norma Terrace Theatre, Chester, CT 1996
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Philemon
Synopsis:
a clown who has been collaborating with the Romans redeems himself when he disguises himself as a Christian Bishop and suffers martyrdom
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
Portfolio Studio, New York 1975
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Original cast recording: Gallery (OC-1) 1975
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Roadside
the people who shaped the Old West - the cowboys, the homesteaders and those looking for a new life
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones. Based on the play by Lynn Riggs
1st Produced:
York Playhouse, New York 2001
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1st Published:
- ocr-road
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Show Goes On, The
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Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones
1st Produced:
Theatre at St Peter's Church, New York 1997
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: DRG (19008) 1998
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