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Ned Sherrin

NED SHERRIN

  (1931 - 2007)
Nationality:    British
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New Sherrin, who died of throat cancer, was born in Low Ham in Somerset, the son of a farmer, and went to Oxford to take a law degree where he became involved in Theatre and revue. In 1955 he was called to the Bar but at about the same time was offered a job as a producer with Associated Television, just as ITV was starting up. Two years later he moved to the BBC where he directed the Tonight programme and in 1962 he started the very influential satirical show That Was the Week That Was (TW3) which was the first ever programme on British television to treat politians with anything other than reverence and respect. Whilst his career as a broadcaster. both on TV and radio, continued, he also turned his attention to the stage, writing, producing and directing. Often working with Caryl Brahms, he wrote five plays and six musicals, including the Mitford Girls, which transferred from Chichester to the West End's Globe Theatre. He directed five musicals, including Side by Side by Sondheim in which he also starred in the West End and on Broadway and for which he won a Tony Award nomination. In film he produced the Virgin Soldiers, the National Health, Girl Stoke Boy, Every Home Should Have One and the Up Pompeii and in Theatre he directed Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell with Peter O'Toole. He was much in demand as an after-dinner speaker, winning the the Benedictine After Dinner Speaker of the Yearaward in 1991. He was made a CBE in 1997.
- the British Theatre Guide

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         Beecham         Cindy-Ella Or I Got A Shoe         Fish Out Of Water         Liberty Ranch         Metropolitan Mikado, The         Mitford Girls, The         Nicholas Nickleby         Nickleby And Me         No Bed For Bacon         Ratepayers' Iolanthe         Sing A Rude Song         Small Expectations         Spoils, The         Ziegfeld

Beecham

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written with Caryl Brahms

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-    1980

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Cindy-Ella Or I Got A Shoe

Cindy-Ella Or I Got A Shoe
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Notes:
written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin

1st Produced:
Garrick Theatre, London    1962

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Original cast recording: DRG (15023) 1962

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Fish Out Of Water

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Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau. Adapted by Caryl Brahms And Ned Sherrin from "La Main Passe"

1st Produced:
Greenwich, London    1971

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Liberty Ranch

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written with Caryl Brahms

1st Produced:
-    1972

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Metropolitan Mikado, The

Synopsis:
"I am the very master of the Multipurpose metaphor, I put them into speeches which I always feel the better for, the speed of my delivery is totally vehicular, I'm burning with a passion about nothing in particular, I'm well acquainted too with matters technological, I'm able to explain myself in phrases tautological, My language is poetical and full of hidden promises. . . It's like the raging torrent of a thousand Dylan Thomases."

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adapted from the light opera by W S Gilbert And Arthur Sullivan by Ned Sherrin And Alistair Beaton

1st Produced:
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London    01 Aug 1985

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Genre:
satirical operetta

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol V (1985) Page 0742

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Mitford Girls, The

Mitford Girls, The
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Notes:
By Caryl Brahms, Ned Sherrin And P Greenwell

1st Produced:
Globe, London    1981

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Original cast recording: Phillips (6359088)

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Nicholas Nickleby

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written with Caryl Brahms

1st Produced:
-    1969

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Nickleby And Me

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written with Caryl Brahms

1st Produced:
-    1975

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No Bed For Bacon

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written with Caryl Brahms

1st Produced:
-    1959

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Ratepayers' Iolanthe

Synopsis:
An extravagent concotion of parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, Mrs Thatcher and Ken Livingston. Launched as a political self-defensive squib by the Greater London Council, to try and stop its closure. Mrs Thatcher is presented as a usurping and predatory Fairy Queen trying to get Red Ken off the GLC and into parliment to be useless among Labour Backbenchers.

Notes:
adapted from the light opera by W S Gilbert And Arthur Sullivan by Ned Sherrin And Alistair Beaton

1st Produced:
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London    25 Jul 1984

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Genre:
satirical operetta

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  fairies and chorus

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol IV (1984) Page 0624

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Sing A Rude Song

Sing A Rude Song
the life story of the great Music Hall personality Marie Lloyd

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written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin

1st Produced:
Garrick Theatre, London    1970

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Small Expectations

Synopsis:
A musical spoof 'torn ruthlessly from the pages of Dickens' by Alistair Beaton and Ned Sherrin with music by Gerard Kenny.

Notes:
adapted by Ned Sherrin And Alistair Beaton

1st Produced:
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London    28 Mar 1986

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Genre:
musical spoof

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Male:  8            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Spoils, The

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written with Caryl Brahms, from the Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Ziegfeld

Ziegfeld
This is not so much a biography musical as a musical using all the hallmarks of a Ziegfeld revue - colourful costumes, beautiful girls, spectacular scenery and a melodious score from musical numbers by masters of the genre.

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Conceived, directed and choreographed by Joe Layton, with book by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton. Score devised by Michael Reed, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Leslie Stuart et al. Additional lyrics by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 0544; http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VIII (1988) Page 1025

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