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Tom Jones

TOM JONES

  (1928 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Tom Jones's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         110 In the Shade         Anatol         Celebration         Colette         Collette Collage         Come In! Come In!         Fantasticks, The         Harold And Maude - the Musical         I Do! I Do!         Mirette         Philemon         Roadside         Show Goes On, The

110 In the Shade

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.

Notes:
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

Organisations:
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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

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
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Anatol

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Celebration

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

Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
Ambassador Theater, New York    22 Jan 1969

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Bay Cities (3015) 1969

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Colette

Colette
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Notes:
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

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: MIO (3001) 1970

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Collette Collage

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.

Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones; book by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
York Playhouse, New York    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Studio cast recording: Varese (VCD 5473) 1984

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Come In! Come In!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics and book by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Fantasticks, The

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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Notes:
music by Harvey Schmidt; book And lyrics by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
Sullivan Street Playhouse    03 May 1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Applause Books, 2000   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Polygram (B000001F7B)

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Genre:
130 min Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXX Issue 12 Page 643

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Harold And Maude - the Musical

Harold And Maude - the Musical
the unlikely romance between a young man obsessed with death and an elderly woman in love with life.

Notes:
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    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
Demo non-commercial recording 2004

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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I Do! I Do!

I Do! I Do!
Setting: a bedroom. the story covers fifty years of marriage, beginning just before the turn of the century

Notes:
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

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (1128-2-RC) 1966

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mirette

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Elizabeth Diggs; Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
Norma Terrace Theatre, Chester, Ct    1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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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

Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
Portfolio Studio, New York    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Gallery (OC-1) 1975

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Roadside

Roadside
the people who shaped the Old West - the cowboys, the homesteaders and those looking for a new life

Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones. Based on the play by Lynn Riggs

1st Produced:
York Playhouse, New York    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   ocrroad

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Show Goes On, The

Show Goes On, The
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Notes:
Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics And book by Tom Jones

1st Produced:
Theatre At St Peter's Church, New York    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: DRG (19008) 1998

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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