A Wonderful Life (musical)
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A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo.
Based on the classic 1946
Background and production history
Harnick and Raposo worked for many years to put together a musical version of It's a Wonderful Life, but just as the musical's book was completed, a controversy arose over the rights to the underlying Stern story that delayed production of the show. During this delay, Raposo died of cancer in 1989.[1]
A Wonderful Life was performed initially at the
On December 12, 2005, a staged concert version was directed by Carl Andress and choreographed by Denis Jones at the
The Paper Mill Playhouse presented a fully staged production, from November through December 17, 2006, directed by James Brennan; it received moderately positive reviews.
Song list
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References
- ^ Information from the TUTS study guide Archived February 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine tuts.com
- ^ Rousuck, J. Wynn.Lovely touches of comedy revive spirit of 'A Wonderful Life' " The Baltimore Sun, November 26, 1991
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Actors' Fund's 'A Wonderful Life' Concert — with Brian Stokes Mitchell — Presented Dec. 12" Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, December 12, 2005
- ^ See, for example, "New York Times Times review" movies.nytimes.com, November 26, 2006, and "Talkin' Broadway review" talkinbroadway.com
- ^ Review of a Chicago production