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Carolyn Leigh

CAROLYN LEIGH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Carolyn Leigh's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Hellzapoppin         How Now, Dow Jones         Little Me         Peter Pan         Wildcat

Hellzapoppin

Synopsis:
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Notes:
by Abe Burrows. Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bill Heyer And Carolyn Leigh; book by ed Bullins, Bill Heyer And Hank Beebe

1st Produced:
-    1976

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How Now, Dow Jones

How Now, Dow Jones
Kate has been engaged for three and a half years to Herbert. He will only marry her when the Dow Jones index hits 1000. She meets Charley they both want to end it all but at the same time are attracted to each other - they spend the night together. Next day Charley does decide to end it all and climbs out on to a ledge. His boss - Wingate - is looking for someone to sweet talk old ladies into giving up their life savings to his investment company. after a few words with Charley he realises that he is the one to do it and persuades him to come down from the ledge. Kate realises she is pregnant but decides that she should marry Herbert - she tells him that the Dow Jones has hit 1000

Notes:
Music by elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh; Book by Max Shulman

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater    07 Dec 1967

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Original cast recording: RCa (63581-2) 1967

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Little Me

Little Me
This whopping, whirling musical burlesque charting the rise to fame and fortune of Bell Poitrine, the queen of the silver screen. This little girl from the wrong side of the tracks, finds her way to the right side, with the help of several willing gentlemen!

Notes:
music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York    17 Nov 1962

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1st Published:
in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York, 1979   -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (61482)

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Peter Pan

Synopsis:
Setting: the Nursery of the Darling Residence, Neverland, Marooner's Rock, the Home Underground, the Pirate Ship.

Notes:
Based on the play by James M. Barrie; Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh; Music by Mark Charlap; Additional music by Jule Styne; Additional lyrics by Betty Comden And Adolph Green; Incidental music by elmer Bernstein And Trude Rittman

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, NY    1954

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Wildcat

Wildcat
1912 and a woman prospector - Wildcat Jackson - hunts for oil

Notes:
Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

1st Produced:
Alvin Theater, New York    1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third ave., New York,    -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCa (60353) 1960

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