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Burt Shevelove

BURT SHEVELOVE

  (1915 - 1982)
Nationality:    USA
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Burt Shevelove's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Frogs, The         Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, A         Happy New Year
Frogs, The

Synopsis:
Setting: the time is the present. the place is Ancient Greece

Notes:
A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes; "the Frogs" freely Adapted by Burt Shevelove; "the Frogs" even more freely Adapted by Nathan Lane; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics for "Fear No More" from "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Yale University Swimming Pool, New Haven     1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original Broadway recording: PS Classics (PS-525) 2004

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Genre:
Musical

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Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, A

Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, A
Setting: Two hundred years before the Christian era, a day in spring. A street in Rome in front of the houses of Erronius, Senex and Lycus. Tony Award winning musical that starred the great Zero Mostel as a Roman slave trying to win his freedom. the original production ran for 964 performances and was later filmed with Mostel in the lead along with Jack Gilford and the great Buster Keaton.

Notes:
Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Burt Shevelove And Larry Gelbart; A musical comedy based on the plays of Plautus

1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, NY     08 May 1962

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1963   

Music:
Original cast recording: Bay Cities (3002) 1962

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Happy New Year

Synopsis:
Wall Street lawyer Johnny Case has become engaged to Julia Seton. Suddenly Johnny gives up his job to become a playboy spending Julia's father's money. Julia's sister, Linda, is intrigued. Johnny realises he loves Linda and they become a couple

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Burt Shevelove. Based on the 1928 play "Holiday" by Philip Barry and the 1938 movie "Holiday" screenplay by Sidney Buchman; Donald Ogden Spiers

1st Produced:
Morosco Theatre, New York     27 Apr 1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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