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Jule Styne

JULE STYNE  

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

 Bar Mitzvah Boy         Fade Out - Fade In         Funny Girl         Gypsy         Hazel Flagg         High Button Shoes         Look to the Lillies         Married Alived         Prettybelle         Some Like It

Bar Mitzvah Boy

Jule Styne
Elliott Green thinks he will be unable to cope with the adult world and runs away from his bar mitzvah

Notes:
by Jack Rosenthal; Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Don Black

1st Produced:
Her Majesty's Theatre, London    31 Oct 1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   smk-53498

Music:
Original cast recording: Sony (SMK 53498) 1978

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Genre:
Musical

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Fade Out - Fade In

Jule Styne
A New York usherette is whisked off to Hollywood to become a star. However she has been mistaken for someone else

Notes:
Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Betty Comden And Adolph Green; Book by Betty Comden And Adolph Green

1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theatre, NY    1964

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   abcs-oc-3

Music:
Original cast recording: ABC (ABCS-OC-3) 1964

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Genre:
Musical

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Funny Girl

Synopsis:
a simple account of the life of Fanny Brice in real life she was a plain girl from the East Side who made a youthful success as a comedienne, married a gambler, endured him through his imprisonments, had his children and divorced him

Notes:
by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill; book by Isobel Lemart

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Gypsy

Synopsis:
Setting: Various cities throughout the U.S. From the 1920s to the 1930s

Notes:
Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

1st Produced:
Broadway Theatre, NY    1959

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Genre:
Musical

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Hazel Flagg

Jule Styne
Wallace Cook persuades his editor to invite small town girl Hazel Flagg to New York for a series of articles. Hazel is dying after being exposed to radium. Just before she sets off to New York she discovers she has been mis-diagnosed and is quite well. But she has always wanted to go to New York. In New York she is feted by everyone and becomes a celebrity

Notes:
Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Hilliard; book by Ben Hecht

1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York    11 Feb 1953

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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Sepia (1035) 1953

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Genre:
Musical

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High Button Shoes

Jule Styne
Conmen Harrison Floy and Mr Pontdue cheat the Longstreet family out of all their money. Pursued by the police the make a getaway to Atlantic City taking Fran - Mrs Longstreet's younger sister with them. Fran has fallen for Harrison. In Atlantic City Pontdue tells Harrison to put all the money they have stolen on a bet. Harrison makes a mistake - he was supposed to bet on Princeton in a football match - they loose - instead he put the money on a horse called Princeton - it wins. The conmen now have more then enough money to pay back everyone they conned

Notes:
Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn; book by George Abbott; Stephen Longstreet. Based on the novel "The Sisters Liked Them Handsome" by Stephen Longstreet

1st Produced:
New Century Theatre, New York    09 Oct 1947

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Tams-Witmark Music Library   rca-4572

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (4572) 1947

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Genre:
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Look to the Lillies

Jule Styne
An Africa-American soldier has gone AWOL and is in hiding in New Mexico. The Mother Superior of a convent "persuades" him to build a chapel for her nuns

Notes:
by Leonard Spigelgrass; Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York    29 Mar 1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   blue-pear-1010

Music:
Original cast recording: Blue Pear (1010) 1970

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Genre:
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Married Alived

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by E Y Harburg; book by Nunnally Johnson. Based on the novel "Burried Alive" by Arnold Bennett

1st Produced:
O'Keefe Centre, Toronto    25 Dec 1967

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Genre:
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Prettybelle

Jule Styne
Prettybelle Sweet is a manic depressive alcoholic and is in an institution. She tells her life story.

Notes:
Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill

1st Produced:
Shubert Theater, Boston    01 Feb 1971

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   vsd-5439

Music:
Original cast recording: Varese (VSD-5439) 1971

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Some Like It

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written By Jule Styne And Bob Merrill

1st Produced:
Birmingham Hippodrome    1991

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1st Published:
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Genre:
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