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Musicals based on Alice in Wonderland (7 P) Pages in category "Musicals based on poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Musicals based on poems (1 C, 21 P) Operas based on the Aeneid (21 P) Musical settings of poems by author (10 C, 1 P) Songs based on poems (126 P) D.
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.
Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
The musical began life in 1984 as a costumed concert with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, conducted by Mike Batt and starring Paul Jones as the Baker and Christopher Cazenove as the narrator. It was created as a concept album in 1986 but withheld from sale after a dispute with the record label CBS (now Sony Music). [1]
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
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.
Epica is a concept album based on Faust, Part One. It was followed by The Black Halo, which was based on Faust, Part Two. [1] The House of Atreus Act I and The House of Atreus Act II: Virgin Steele: Oresteia: Aeschylus: Two-part concept album based loosely on the Oresteia of Aeschylus [7] Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds ...