Music - Assignment task 1

Section 1 

After the Ball is a musical by Noël Coward, based on Lady Windermere's Fan.After a provincial tour, the musical premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, on 10 June 1954 and ran for 188 performances until 20 November 1954. Robert Helpmann was the director.After the Ball was the last Coward musical launched in the West End.

Hit the Deck is a musical with music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo Robin and book by Herbert Fields. It was based on the play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne. Overall, it ran for 352 performances.The original production was staged at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on April 25, 1927.The first London production opened at the Hippodrome on July 3, 1927.

Jerome Kern  wrote songs for the film versions of his recent Broadway shows Music in the Air (1934), which starred Gloria Swanson in a rare singing role, and Sweet Adeline (1935). With Dorothy Fields, he composed the new music for I Dream Too Much (1935). 

Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart .Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by David Merrick in 1964, winning a record 10 Tony Awards,Hello, Dolly! premiered in the West End at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on December 2, 1965.

Follow That Girl is a musical adapted by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds from their original Bristol Old Vic production Christmas in King Street and it was produced  in 1960 in the West End.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1929 by John L. Balderston.The Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 17, 1965 and closed on June 11, 1966 after 280 performances and 3 previews. Production :2000 London ,2013 London Revival. 

Section 2

Andy Williams - Breakfast at Tiffanys: Moon River
Wild and reckless - Drat The cat
I'm so pretty - West side story
cant stop lovin that man- musical showboat