Also credited on1 work
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature5 passages
- Beverley Cross’s book was worked up from an original play by Donal Giltinan, but presumably Cross had once again to shape his adaptation to Fielding’s demands for appropriate parts and star material. Heneker was compromised by the decision to include several original songs by Percy French, including ‘The Mountains of Mourne’, ‘Are You Rig…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
- Half A Sixpence Music and lyrics by David Heneker; book by Beverley Cross, based on the novel Kipps by H. G. Wells . Cambridge Theatre, 21 March 1963. PC: Tommy Steele, Marti Webb, James Grout. MN: All in the Cause of Economy; Half a Sixpence; Money to Burn; The Oak and the Ash; She’s Too Far above Me; I’m Not Talking to You; A Proper Gen…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
- Jorrocks Music and lyrics by David Heneker; book by Beverley Cross. New Theatre, 22 September 1966. PC: Joss Ackland, Thelma Ruby, Paul Eddington, Willoughby Goddard, Cheryl Kennedy, Bernard Lloyd. MN: Ask Mr Jorrocks; Belinda; The Happiest Man Alive; Fresh Bloomin’ Health; We’d Imagined a Man; Toasts of the Town; The Midsummer Fox; I Don…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
- Phil the Fluter Music and lyrics by David Heneker and Percy French; book by Beverley Cross and Donal Giltinan. Palace Theatre, 15 November 1969. PC: Evelyn Laye, Stanley Baxter, Mark Wynter, Sarah Atkinson, Caryl Little. MN [all Heneker except where otherwise stated]: If I Had a Chance; Abdul Abulbul Amir [French / Cross]; Mama; A Favour…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
- book by Beverley Cross (revised by Hugh Wheeler) based on the 1905 novel Kipps by H. G. Wells directed by Gene Saks (replacing Word Baker) choreographed by Onna Whitetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.