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Charles Strouse

CHARLES STROUSE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Charles Strouse's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         All American         Annie         Bojangles         Bring Back Birdie         Bye Bye Birdie         Charlotte's Web         I and Albert         Martin         Mayor         You Never Know

All American

All American
A professor finds that the only way he can get through to his football obsessed students in to couch his engineering lectures in football terms. This ultimately improves the college team's performances

Notes:
by Mel Brooks, Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theater, New York     1962

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Sony ( SK-48216) 1962

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Annie

Annie
11 year old Annie is in an orphanage, presided over by Miss Hannigan, who keeps the little girl orphans in line by bullying and threatening them ("It's the Hard-Knock Life"). the girls are ever hopeful that they will find parents and happiness ("Maybe") while Miss Hannigan is unhappy with her situation. Annie decides to escape to find her parents, running into a friendly dog (Sandy) ("Tomorrow") and the people made homeless because of the Great Depression ("We'd Like To Thank You, Herbert Hoover"). However, she is returned to the orphanage. Grace Farrell, Warbucks' assistant, picks her to live in Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks' palatial home for the Christmas holidays ("I Think I'm Gonna Like it Here"). Although initially uncomfortable with each other, Annie and Daddy Warbucks soon come to love each other ("You Won't Be An Orphan For Long"). Warbucks wants to adopt her, but Annie insists that her parents will come for her. Over the radio show of Bert Healy, and with the help of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Warbucks offers a reward for the parents ("You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile"). Miss Hannigan and her brother, Rooster, and his slightly ditzy girlfriend, Lily St. Regis, scheme to pretend to be the parents and collect the reward ("Easy Street"). When they are found out, it is revealed that Annie's parents have died. Warbucks and Annie become a family ("I Don't Need Anything But You").

Notes:
music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Martin Charnin; Book by Thomas Meehan; Based on "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray. Music theatre International hold the rights for the United States http://www.mtishows.com/

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (SK-60723) 1977

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Genre:
Musical

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

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Bojangles

Synopsis:
the story of Bill Robinson - dancing legend Bojangles from an abandoned orphan to dancing with Shirley Temple

Notes:
Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Sammy Cahn; book by Douglas Jones

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bring Back Birdie

Bring Back Birdie
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Notes:
Book by Michael Stewart; Music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Lee Adams

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theater, New York     05 Mar 1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Varese (5440) 1981

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Genre:
Musical

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Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his 'farewell' television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. Featuring the popular songs, 'Put on a Happy Face', 'the Telephone Hour', and 'Got a Lot of Livin' To Do'

Notes:
Book by Michael Stewart; Music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Lee Adams

1st Produced:
Martin Beck Theater, New York     1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (2025) 1960

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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Charlotte's Web

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the story by E B White, book by Joseph Robinette, music and lyrics by Charles Strouse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Theatre For Young Audiences" published by St Martin's Griffin 2005   

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I and Albert

I and Albert
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Notes:
by Jay Allen; Music Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams

1st Produced:
Piccadilly Theatre, London     06 Nov 1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
LP: TER 1004 1972

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Martin

Synopsis:
Martin recounts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s faltering journey from defiant teenager to leader of an improbable nonviolent bus boycott, which ultimately set the tone for the civil rights movement. In this new musical, Dr. King is stunned and disappointed that students from an urban high school, named after him, have little idea who he and his colleagues were in the civil rights movement. He takes them through his struggles with racism as a youth in Atlanta, his embrace of Mahatma Gandhi's peaceful means of protest, and the Montgomery bus boycott, where segregation on buses was declared illegal by the United States Supreme Court.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Book By: Leslie Lee; Music & Lyrics By: Charles Strouse

1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     19 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Negro Ensemble Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Mayor

Synopsis:
A musical based on a day in the life of Mayor Edward Koch

Notes:
Music by Charles Strousse; lyrics by Charles Strousse; book by Warren Leight

1st Produced:
The Village Gate, New York     13 May 1985

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York,    

Music:
Original cast recording: Harbinger Records (HCD 1805) 1985

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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You Never Know

Synopsis:
Ben decides that he does not want to follow his dad into the law. He wants to write music. His late grandfather was in the music industry. Ben finds an unfinished musical he wrote and hires a rehearsal hall to put it on . Nobody but one person shows up to watch - but she drags some others in to make an audience. The musical is about a composer who can't get a break

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Charles Strouse; book by Rinne Groff; Charles Strouse

1st Produced:
Trinity Rep     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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