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Dick deterred

Title: Dick deterred : typescript, 1974 / book by David Edgar ; lyrics by Ira Gasman ; music by Galt McDermott.
Author: Edgar, David, 1948-

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Description

120 leaves (various foliations) ; 28 cm

Summary

Typescript, dated 7-10-74.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Scripts.

Note

This unproduced musical was the second of three musicals of this title with books by David Edgar. The first had music composed by Graham Field and was produced at the Bush Theatre in London in February, 1974. The third had music by William Schimmel and was produced at the Wiiliam Redfield Theatre, New York, N.Y., in January 1983 and then at the West Bank Cafe in September of that year.
Dick Deterred is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III with Richard Nixon in the title and with his colleagues substituting for the Shakespearean characters Clarence, Buckingham, Catesby, etc.

Call Number

NCOF+ 13-1867

OCLC

858872739

Author

Edgar, David, 1948-

Title

Dick deterred : typescript, 1974 / book by David Edgar ; lyrics by Ira Gasman ; music by Galt McDermott.

Local Note

On cover: Studio duplicating sevice, inc.

Photocopy of clippings is laid in.

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Added Author

Gasman, Ira.

MacDermot, Galt.

Research Call Number

NCOF+ 13-1867