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Shockheaded Peter (musical)

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Lyrics
  
Martyn Jacques

Lyricist
  
Martyn Jacques

First performance
  
1998

Adapted from
  
Struwwelpeter

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Music
  
Adrian Huge Martyn Jacques Adrian Stout

Book
  
Julian Bleach Anthony Cairns Graeme Gilmour Tamzin Griffin

Basis
  
Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann

Productions
  
1998 West Yorkshire 1999 Off-Broadway 2002 West End 2005 Off-Broadway revival

Authors
  
Julian Crouch, Phelim McDermott, Martyn Jacques

Composers
  
Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge

Awards
  
Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family

Similar
  
Struwwelpeter, The Addams Family, The Wild Party, Far Away, The Black Rider

Shockheaded peter


Shockheaded Peter is a 1998 musical using the popular German children's book Struwwelpeter (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann as its basis.

Contents

Created by Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Julian Crouch, Graeme Gilmour, Tamzin Griffin, Jo Pocock, Phelim McDermott, Michael Morris and The Tiger Lillies (Martyn Jacques, Adrian Huge and Adrian Stout) the production combines elements of pantomime and puppetry with musical versions of the poems with the songs generally following the text but with a somewhat darker tone. Whereas the children in the poems only sometimes die, in the musical they all do. Commissioned by the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds and the Lyric Hammersmith in West London, the show debuted in 1998 in Leeds before moving to London and subsequently to world tours.

The tiger lillies shockheaded peter 1998 full album


Productions

  • 1998 West Yorkshire Playhouse
  • 1999 New Victory Theater
  • 1999 Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater
  • 2002 Piccadilly Theatre
  • 2004 Lyric Hammersmith
  • 2005 Little Shubert Theatre
  • 2009 Burgtheater
  • 2010 Grillo-Theater Essen
  • 2011 Theater Heidelberg
  • 2013 Det Norske Teatret
  • 2013 Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall
  • 2014 Staatstheater Cottbus
  • 2015 Company One
  • 2015 Green Valley Theatre Company
  • 2015 Schauspiel Hannover
  • 2016 Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica

    • Awards and nominations

    Awards

  • 1998 Barclays/TMA Best Director Award
  • 1999 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Design
  • 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment
  • 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Martyn Jacques)

    • Nominations

  • 1999 South Bank Show Award Theatre
  • 2000 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
  • 2000 Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design for a Musical
  • 2000 Drama Desk Award for Best Costume Design
  • 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director
  • 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design
  • 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design

    • References

    Shockheaded Peter (musical) Wikipedia
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