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ComposerLyricist b. 1951

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "You Can't Hurry Love", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise", "Two Hearts" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down"…

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Tarzan

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  • In his lengthy career, Paul has worked with Elton John on Aida and Phil Collins on Tarzan, and was the music director on a number of Andrew Lloyd Webber New York premieres, so unlike Teese Gohl or David Campbell, Paul had some unimpeachable Broadway bona fides. Beefy, with a goatee and let’s say Robert Redfordish hair, Paul Bogaev is also…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • Like those of The Lion King , the songs, written by pop star Phil Collins, had an exotic African flavor and included the hit “You’ll Be in My Heart.” Collins augmented the five songs he penned for the film with nine more. The plot of the musical closely matched the film (both drawn from the original story by Edgar Rice Burroughs), with fo…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Disney returned to Broadway in May 2006 with another live-action version of a animated film, this time Tarzan , with music and lyrics by Phil Collins. Vine-swinging acrobats fill the stage with spectacular aerial feats and ‘American Idol’ veteran Josh Strickland made his Broadway debut in the title role.ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • "I'm working on three musicals at the moment," Schumacher said, "two pulled from animated movies and one from our live-action library. There's Tarzan, with music by Phil Collins-we're deeply into that; and Little Mermaid, which we've done a lot of writing on but haven't got a schedule for yet. Tarzan will be directed and designed by Bob C…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt

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