Also credited on5 works
Stop the World- I Want to Get Off
The Roar of the Greasepaint The Smell of the Crowd
Jekyll & Hyde
Pickwick
Victor/Victoria
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In the literature8 passages
- All songs are: Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, except “Transformation,” “Alive,” (including “Alive” Reprise), “His Work and Nothing More,” “Murder, Murder,” and “Once Upon a Dream”ebooks/Cuden, Steve/Beating Broadway_ How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations - Steve Cuden.txt
- Not bad for a simple show about an Everyman whom Newley and his co-writer Leslie Bricusse called Littlechap. The character was born lower middle class, becomes at least semi-educated, gets his first job, marries the boss’s daughter, cheats on the boss’s daughter, has a couple of children, gets ahead in the world, enters politics, wins—and…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Part of the appeal was that Anthony Newley was starring. (He also staged the musical, and, with Leslie Bricusse, had cowritten its book, music, and lyrics.) Much of the nation knew three of its songs through Newley’s recordings: “Once in a Lifetime,” “Gonna Build a Mountain” (the last word of which Newley enjoyed pronouncing as “moun-tayn…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- A hit in London a year before it was presented in New York, Stop the World — I Want to Get Off unveiled the multiple talents of the British team of Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Newley starred in the musical, in which he played Littlechap, and the allegorical tale had much to say about man’s drive for fame and power and the disillus…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- On October 3, 1962, Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opened at the Shubert. The show, which starred Newley, had been written in New York during a few months in the early spring of 1961, when Bricusse was there to write some special material for Beatrice Lillie. Merrick had optioned it during its pre-L…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- In his two hit collaborations with Leslie Bricusse, Stop the World—I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd, Newley had played the same “little man” character, and that character was often dubbed Chaplinesque. Indeed, Newley identified with Charles Chaplin: they were both cockneys from the East End of Londo…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
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