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Jeremy Sams

JEREMY SAMS

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Jeremy Sams has directed numerous plays at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, he is a multi-award winning composer, arranger and musical director.

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         Amour         Antigone         Becket         Chitty Chitty Bang Bang         Damsel In Distress, A         Day After Tomorrow, The         Dear Brutus         Enigma Variations         Exit The KIng         Fool And His Money, A         Indiscretions         Mademoiselle Colombe/Magistrate, The         Marriage of Figaro, The         Mary Stuart         Miser, The         Monsieur Popular         Orchestra, The         Parents Terribles, The         Park, The         Rehearsal, The         Scapino, Or the Trickster         Seven Doors         Soldier's Tale, The         Threepenny Opera, The         Time And the Room         Visitor, The         Wild Oats         Wizard Of Oz, The

Amour

Amour
Paris just after the Second World War. A lowly clerk Dusoleil is shunned by fellow workers because he unlike them works hard for their tyrannical boss. Dusoleil daydreams about the beautiful Issobelle who is kept locked away by her husband the Chief Prosecutor. then Dusoleil discovers that he can walk through walls. He uses this ability to rob the rich and give to the poor. He gives his robber self the name Passepartout. With this ability he gets to see Isabelle. But Dusoleil is discovered and put on trial. Isabelle testifies that her husband collaborated with the Nazis and Dusoleil is pardoned. Suffering from a headache he was given aspirin by his doctor and has taken them. the aspirin affect his ability which he looses whilst halfway through a walk - where he gets stuck forever.

Notes:
Written by Jeremy Sams And Didier van Cauwelaert; music by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Jeremy Sams And Didier van Cauwelaert. Based on a short story by Marcel Ayme, nomination Tony Award

1st Produced:
Music Box Theater, New York     20 Oct 2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Sh-K-Boom Records (4003-2) 2003

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Musical

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Antigone

Synopsis:
theme is resistance to oppression, bury your brother and die

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Becket

Synopsis:
Martyr to his faith and purity.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

1st Produced:
The Royal, London     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Methuen, London, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  33            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Synopsis:
the enchanting tale of the magical car

Notes:
Music by Richard M. Sherman And Robert B. Sherman; Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman And Robert B. Sherman; Adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams from film by Ian Fleming

1st Produced:
Palladium, London     16 Apr 2002

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Genre:
musical comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Damsel In Distress, A

Synopsis:
George is an American composer working at the Savoy Theatre in London. Maud is the thoroughly English Lady Marshmoreton, a beautiful socialite who lives in a castle with a ha-ha and a drawbridge. They really shouldn't have met because George needs to complete his musical and Maud needs to marry most urgently, and already has someone totally unsuitable in mind. Luckily Maud's fierce aunt, Lady Caroline, has a solution - she's going to lock her lusty charge in the tower. Uplifting and wildly funny, this musical comedy is a tribute to English love with all its eccentricities. Based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse, with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, A Damsel in Distress is well-known from the popular 1937 comedy film and features the unforgettable songs Nice Work If You Can Get It, I Can't Be Bothered Now and A Foggy Day (In London Town).

Notes:
Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin; Book by Jeremy Sams and Robert Hudson; Based On The Novel by P.G. Wodehouse and the play By P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Hay

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  8            Other:  ensemble

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Day After Tomorrow, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Roel Adam

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Translation

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Dear Brutus

Synopsis:
rather like an Agatha Christie whodunit a group of guests have been invited to an English country house by a mysterious gnome-like old man called lob. It is midsummer's night and none of the guests are quite sure why they have been invited.

Notes:
adapted from the play by J M Barrie (1917)

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Adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Enigma Variations

Synopsis:
Nobel Prize-winning author Abel Znorko lives as a recluse on a remote island in the Norwegian Seas. For fifteen years, his one friend and soulmate has been Helen, from whom he has been physically separated for the majority of their affair. Journalist Erik Larsen arrives to interview Znorko about his latest book, which is, in fact, a transcript of correspondence between the author and Helen. As Larsen seeks to unmask the identity of Helen, Znorko becomes infuriated. Evasions and lies twist into increasingly complex puzzles. Is Larsen really a journalist? Is it possible that both Znorko and Larsen love the same woman? Is Helen still alive? Slowly the barriers between the two men begin to fall as the profound mysteries of intimacy rise in their place.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Exit The KIng

Synopsis:
The once great King Berenger the First is 400 years old, on his last legs and ruling over a decaying kingdom. Now the party is over and the end is nigh. in his youth he reigned over millions of subjects, battled thousands of enemies, single-handedly split the atom and invented the car. He even controlled the weather. But now the heater is broken, the cows have stopped producing milk and the sun is late. While his two queens bicker about whether he should be made aware of his imminent demise, it is clear that Berenger wont surrender without a fi ght. But the fact is, this is the last day of his life and the end of the play could mean the end of everything. ionescos darkly hilarious and sparklingly witty comedy makes fun of all the things that tragedy usually takes seriously.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

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Genre:
adaptation of three black comedies

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fool And His Money, A

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Indiscretions

Synopsis:
In this personal favorite of the French master, a young man bursts to tell his parents that he has met the love of his life and intends to marry her. His mother is devastated by the news, while his Father harbors a secret about the new girlfriend that could destroy them all. Torn between love and resentment for an undeserving family she supports, the sage and spinster aunt attempts to create some order out of this mess. This crackling farce satirizes the pretensions of bourgeois bohemians and a mother who dotes on her son, perhaps, a bit too much.
- press release

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Cocteau, Les Parents Terribles

1st Produced:
Connelly Theatre, NY     2009

Organisations:
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mademoiselle Colombe/Magistrate, The

Synopsis:
the play is set behind the scenes of a Parisian theatre. the eponymous heroine is a sweet, unsophisticated flower-girl, who loves her husband, Julien, until left in the care of her mother in law, Madame Alexandra, a famous, seven times married actress of no fixed morality or maternal feelings.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

1st Produced:
Bridewell, London     2000

Organisations:
London Stage Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  1b

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Marriage of Figaro, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
by Mozart / DaPonte

1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House     06 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Opera Australia

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
translation

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Mary Stuart

Synopsis:
Meeting of Mary Queen of Scots and her captor and eventual executioner, Queen Elizabeth i.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1996   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Miser, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London     1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Translation

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Monsieur Popular

Synopsis:
To ensure his romantic affairs with married ladies run smoothly, Celimare has a ruse. To keep things sweet, he befriends their husbands too, and in truth, he proves to be a wonderful friend. He remembers their birthdays, chooses their furnishings, employs their cooks. Everybody's happy - even the dog. But when the 47 year-old prepares to leave the past behind and marry 18 year-old Emma, it's easy enough to burn his lovers' letters, but his mistresses' husbands are simply not prepared to let him go. Set in 19th century Paris, this hilarious French farce - replete with songs and dances - is by Eugene Marin Labiche (1815-1888), a consumate master of the well-made play, who was to be a huge influence upon Georges Feydeau himself.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche

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Genre:
translation of farce

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Orchestra, The

Synopsis:
play with a concert constructed from a knowledge of the lives of working musicians

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh. Translated by Jeremy Sams, music by Felix Cross

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Methuen, London, 1997   -

Music:
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Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Parents Terribles, The

Synopsis:
Portrait of a bourgeois French family in sexual disarray. When Michael declares his love for a girl, his devoted mother burns with jealousy while his Father is shocked to discover that his son's lover is someone he knows only too well.

Notes:
book by Jean Cocteau

1st Produced:
London     1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Park, The

Synopsis:
Set in Hamburg, the Park is Strauss's take on a Midsummer Night's Dream

Notes:
Original Playwright - Botho Strauss. (Der Park - Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen Wien 1983)

1st Produced:
The Pit, London     1995

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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  12            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Rehearsal, The

Synopsis:
stage romance suddenly becomes the Drama of life as a hedonistic Count and his friends rehearse Marivaux's 'the Double Inconstancy'

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Scapino, Or the Trickster

Synopsis:
Two young men have each found the love of their life. Unfortunately their fathers have other ideas. So the boys turn for help to Scapino, king of con-men. But the old men's obstinacy drives Scapino to ever more ludicrous schemes to ensure that love wins the day. Written at the height of his powers, Moliere's farce is a masterclass in comic construction.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2005   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Seven Doors

Synopsis:
Brings together a jilted husband, a wedding without guests and two monks with an intimate knowledge of hell.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Botho Strauss. (Sieben Turen - Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen Wien 1988)

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Soldier's Tale, The

Synopsis:
a weary homecoming soldier and the Devil who repeatedly tricks him.

Notes:
Music by lgor Stravinsky, Text by C F Ramuz, Translation by Jeremy Sams

1st Produced:
Bristol    

Organisations:
the Motion Group

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-

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Threepenny Opera, The

Synopsis:
Combines descriptions of thoroughly modern atrocities with gently sentimental musicto deeply unsettling effect.
Lynne Walker, Independent

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, translation by Robert David MacDonald, lyrics by Jeremy Sams

1st Produced:
Anthony Hopkins, Clwyd     2000

Organisations:
Edison Mission Energy Mobile Theatre

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-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Time And the Room

Synopsis:
the room contrives to be the play's main character.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Botho Strauss. (Die Zeit Und Das Zimmer - Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen Wien 1988)

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  doubling, extras

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Visitor, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

1st Produced:
-     2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Wild Oats

Synopsis:
A romance of the Old West

Notes:
Original Playwright - John O'Keeffe

1st Produced:
London     1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wizard Of Oz, The

Synopsis:
revival of stage musical of an iconic film

Notes:
Revival with musical Adaptation by Jeremy Sams. By L. Frank Baum, with Music And Lyrics by Harold Arlen And E.Y. Harburg. Additional music And Adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber with Additional lyrics by tim Rice.

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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