Sandy Wilson
Sandy Wilson | |
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| Born | Alexander Galbraith Wilson 19 May 1924 |
| Died | 27 August 2014 (aged 90) |
| Known for | The Boy Friend (1953) |
Alexander Galbraith "Sandy" Wilson (19 May 1924 – 27 August 2014) was an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend (1953).[1]
Biography
Wilson was born in
Most of his work for the stage was material for
Wilson wrote the musical Valmouth in 1958, based on a Ronald Firbank novel set in a seaside resort. In 1964 he wrote Divorce Me, Darling!, a sequel to The Boy Friend.[5] His last work was a version of Aladdin (1979) for the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.[6]
His autobiography, published in 1975, is titled I Could Be Happy.[7]
Sandy Wilson died in Taunton, England in 2014, aged 90.[5] His longtime partner was Chak Yui.[6] Wilson was a member of the Labour Party and contributed to the Elizabethan magazine during his years of greatest fame.[citation needed]
In 1999, Wilson donated his papers to the Harry Ransom Center.[8] The papers include produced and unproduced plays, mostly musicals but also plays for stage and TV, as well as drafts of Wilson's published and unpublished works including an autobiography, illustrated book, novels, articles, and short stories, along with correspondence.
Musicals
- Caprice (1950)
- The Boy Friend (1953)
- The Buccaneer (1955)
- Valmouth (1958)
- Pieces of Eight (1959)
- Divorce Me, Darling! (1964)
- As Dorothy Parker Once Said (1969)
- His Monkey Wife (1971)
- The Clapham Wonder (1978, based on the novel The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns)
- Aladdin (1979)
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5.
- ^ ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ^ Sandy Wilson, I Could be Happy: An Autobiography (London: Joseph, 1975), p. 75.
- ^ Peter Kornicki, Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War with Japan (London: Hurst & Co., 2021), p. 57.
- ^ a b c d Slotnik, Daniel E. (31 August 2014). "Sandy Wilson, Composer and Writer of 'The Boy Friend,' Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ a b Freedland, Michael; Coveney, Michael (27 August 2014). "Sandy Wilson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ISBN 0-7390-4477-X, p. 82
- ^ "Sandy Wilson:A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center", Utexas.edu, retrieved 9 March 2010
References
- Gale, Steven. Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 2, Taylor & Francis, 1996, ISBN 0-8240-5990-5, p. 1216.
External links
- Sandy Wilson Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Sandy Wilson at the Internet Broadway Database
- Sandy Wilson Neglected master of the British musical [Cached page retrieved from Archive.org]
- Sandy Wilson at The Playwrights Database
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