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Cyril Ornadel

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Composer 1924–2011

Simon Cyril Ornadel (2 December 1924 – 22 June 2011) was a British conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre. He worked regularly with David Croft, the television writer, director and producer, as well as Norman Newell and Hal Shaper. He was awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for services to British Music and won a total of four Ivor Novello Awards.

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Pickwick

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  • 104 Cyril Ornadel (1924–2011) was a British conductor and composer, known for conducting a number of major American musicals in their West End transfers in this period, as well as for writing the musical Pickwick (1963).ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
  • Ann Veronica Music by Cyril Ornadel; lyrics by David Croft; book by Frank Wells and Ronald Gow, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. Cambridge Theatre, 17 April 1969. PC: Mary Millar, Arthur Lowe, Hy Hazell, Simon Kent, Peter Reeves, Charles West. MN: A Whole Person; I Don’t See What Else I Could Have Said; Ann Veronica; Maternity; Opportun…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Once More Darling Music by Cyril Ornadel; lyrics by Norman Newell; book by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, based on their play Not Now, Darling . Churchill Theatre, Bromley, 5 June 1978. PC: Norman Vaughan, Jack Douglas, Lynda Baron, Leon Greene, Jan Hunt, Yvonne Marsh. MN: We’ve Got to Get This Show on the Road; Actually; Claudette; My Wife…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Pickwick Music by Cyril Ornadel; lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; book by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Saville Theatre, 4 July 1963. PC: Harry Secombe, Jessie Evans, Peter Bull, Anton Rodgers, Teddy Green. MN: Business Is Booming; Debtors’ Lament; Talk; That’s What I’d Like for Christmas; The Pickwi…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt

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