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Harold Purcell

HAROLD PURCELL

  (1907 - 1977)
Nationality:    English
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Harold Purcell's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Jenny Jones         Lisbon Story, The         Music At Midnight         Rainbow Square         Something In The Air         Under The Counter

Jenny Jones

Synopsis:
Welsh coal miner Rhys Davies has seventeen children he wants to have 21 but as his wife has died he must find a new bride so that he can achieve this. His step daughter Jenny Jones leaves the valley. She returns some years later with enough money for her boyfriend to stage an opera he has written

Notes:
Music by Harry Parr-Davies; lyrics by Harold Purcell; book by Ronald Gow

1st Produced:
London Hippodrome    02 Oct 1944

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Lisbon Story, The

Synopsis:
Wartime Paris. British Foreign Office official David Warren is transferred to Washington D C. He leaves behind his lover the singer Gabrielle Girard. Gabrielle travels to Lisbon. There she meets David who is there to help a French professor and his daughter get to London. The professor is captured by the Germans under Von Schriner. Von Schriner tells Gabrielle that if she becomes his mistress he will let the professor go

Notes:
Music Harry Parr-Davies; lyrics and book Harold Purcell

1st Produced:
London Hippodrome    17 Jun 1943

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Music At Midnight

Synopsis:
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Notes:
book by Guy Bolton; lyrics by Harold Purcell; music by Jacques Offenback; Aditional music by Hans May

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Genre:
2 act play with music

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 50.286

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Rainbow Square

Synopsis:
Setting: Tiajuana, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and Casa Del Rey

Notes:
Book by Guy Bolton And Harold Purcell; music by Robert Stolz

1st Produced:
Stoll, London    21 Sep 1951

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Genre:
3 act musical play

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

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 51.213

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Something In The Air

Synopsis:
Wealthy Jack Pendleton has enlisted with the RAF as a groundsman. His fiancée Terry has also joined up and is in the WAAF. They are mistaken for German spies. To clear themselves they must track down the real spy

Notes:
Music by Manning Sherwin; lyrics by Max Kester; Harold Purcell; book by Jack Hulbert; Arthur Macrae; Archie Menzies

1st Produced:
Palace Theatre, London    1943

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Under The Counter

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Manning Sherwin; lyrics by Harold Purcell; book by Arthur Macrae

1st Produced:
Phoenix Theatre, London    22 Nov 1945

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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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