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Pages in category "Musicals based on poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Musicals that were adapted from short stories, novellas, and other works of short fiction. ... Musicals based on A Christmas Carol (6 P) F. Fiddler on the Roof (1 C, 8 P)
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a musical with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and book by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who've died from AIDS ...
Musical settings of poems by author (10 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Music based on poems" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. In classical genres, these include operas, ballets, incidental music , symphonic poems , orchestral suites and single pieces, cantatas , and songs and song cycles .
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death".
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