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Noël Coward on stage and screen

Noël Coward on stage and screen

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This is a list of works and appearances by the English playwright, actor, singer and songwriter Noël Coward.

Stage works

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Stage appearances

London, except where stated otherwise

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Source: Mander and Mitchenson.[74]

Songs

Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by:

In the society's second tier of favourites are:

  • "The Party's Over Now" (Words and Music)
  • "Dearest Love" (Operette)
  • "Dear Little Café" (Bitter Sweet)
  • "Parisian Pierrot" (London Calling!)
  • "Men About Town" (Tonight at 8.30)
  • "Twentieth Century Blues" (Cavalcade)
  • "Uncle Harry" (Pacific 1860)
  • "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" (1943)
  • "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner" (Globe Review)
  • "Dance, Little Lady" (This Year of Grace)
  • "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" (Tonight at 8.30)
  • "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (Set to Music)
  • "Nina" (Sigh No More)
  • "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" (1954)
  • "Why Must the Show Go On?" (Together With Music)
  • "Sail Away" (Ace of Clubs and Sail Away)
  • "Zigeuner" (Bitter Sweet)[75]

Cinema

Adaptations and original films

Actor

Notes, references and sources

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    Co-written with Esmé Wynne under their joint pen name, Esnomel.[1]
  2. [n 2]
    The title was changed to Ida Collaborates during the run.[1]
  3. [n 3]
    Co-written with Wynne.[2]
  4. [n 4]
    One of five plays written early in Coward's career but not produced until, after his successes beginning with The Vortex and Hay Fever, producers were willing to stage them.[3]
  5. [n 5]
    Revised in 1927.[8]
  6. [n 6]
    Originally called Nadya, then Souvenir.[10]
  7. [n 7]
    Mander and Mitchenson describe the play as unperformed,[12] but newspaper archives record occasional performances from 1934 onwards. It is unclear if any of these were given by a professional company.[13]
  8. [n 8]
    Co-written with Ronald Jeans.[14]
  9. [n 9]
    Mainly by Coward, with some music by Philip Braham.[20]
  10. [N 10]
    Originally titled Ritz Bar.[22]
  11. [N 11]
    Tited Charles B. Cochran's 1928 Revue at its try-out in Manchester.[26]
  12. [N 12]
    Originally titled Sari Linden.[27]
  13. [N 13]
    It was first presented in a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1944 and was given other amateur productions, but its first professional production was in 1992.[30]
  14. [N 14]
    A revised edition of Words and Music for Broadway.[45]
  15. [N 15]
    Originally titled Sweet Sorrow.[47]
  16. [N 16]
    Because of the outbreak of the Second World War, the 1939 production was cancelled; when Coward returned to acting in 1942, the play was finally produced.[48]
  17. [N 17]
    Based on Coward's 1939 short story What Mad Pursuit?[53]
  18. [N 18]
    Originally titled Island Fling for its world premiere in the US and later titled Home and Colonial.[56]
  19. [N 19]
    Originally titled Moxie.[57]
  20. [N 20]
    Based on Lady Windermere's Fan.[59]
  21. [N 21]
    Originally described as an operetta.[60]
  22. [N 22]
    A single "rehearsed reading" was given in June 1989 at The Mill, Sonning.[53]
  23. [N 23]
    Based on The Sleeping Prince.[65]
  24. [N 24]
    Adapted by Coward from his 1951 short story of the same name.[53]
  25. [N 25]
    This was an anthology of Coward's words and music from the 1920s to the 1960s.[67]
  26. [N 26]
    A second Coward anthology.[68]
  27. [N 27]
    In Coward's day the play was thought to be a collaboration between Beaumont and John Fletcher:[69] Coward, who found the play boring, was uncomplimentary about both playwrights.[70]
  28. [N 28]
    For two weeks, to give the regular player of the part, Cecil Parker, a holiday during the long run.[71]
  29. [N 29]
    The regular player, Cyril Ritchard, was ill.[72]
  30. [N 30]
    Covering while the regular player, Graham Payn, was ill. This was the last time Coward appeared onstage with Gertrude Lawrence.[73]

References

  1. [1]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 25
  2. [2]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 26
  3. [3]
    Morley (1974), pp. 111 (The Rat Trap); 77 (Sirocco); 106 (The Queen Was in the Parlour); and 92 (Fallen Angels); and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 81 (Weatherwise)
  4. [4]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 28
  5. [5]
    "I'll Leave It to You", The Times, 22 July 1920, p. 10; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 36
  6. [6]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 43
  7. [7]
    "Daly's Theatre", The Times, 25 November 1927, p. 14
  8. [8]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 52
  9. [9]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 62
  10. [10]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 65
  11. [11]
    Ervine, St John. "At the Play", The Observer, 29 August 1926, p. 9; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 65
  12. [12]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 584
  13. [13]
    "Mild Oats to Be Given Before Theatre Guild", The Palm Beach Post, 2 October 1934, p. 6; "Today at the Theaters", The Ithaca Journal, 11 April 1936, p. 2
  14. [14]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 74
  15. [15]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 81
  16. [16]
    "Globe Theatre", The Times, 22 April 1925, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 83
  17. [17]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 92
  18. [18]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 103
  19. [19]
    "Duke of York's Theatre", The Times, 10 June 1926, p. 14; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 114
  20. [20]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 128
  21. [21]
    "On with the Dance", The Times, 1 May 1925, p. 12
  22. [22]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 140
  23. [23]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 144
  24. [24]
    "Criterion Theatre", The Times, 17 February 1927, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 156
  25. [25]
    "Duke of York's Theatre", The Times, 26 October 1927, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 166
  26. [26]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 171
  27. [27]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 183
  28. [28]
    "Bitter Sweet", The Times, 19 July 1929, p. 12
  29. [29]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 208
  30. [30]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 219
  31. [31]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 228
  32. [32]
    "Mr Coward's Revue", The Times, 17 September 1932, p. 8; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 240
  33. [33]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 249
  34. [34]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 260
  35. [35]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 271
  36. [36]
    "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1935, p. 11; and "To-night at 8.30", The Times, 20 August 1935, p. 10
  37. [37]
    "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 297
  38. [38]
    "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 300
  39. [39]
    "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 303
  40. [40]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 306
  41. [41]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 308
  42. [42]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 311
  43. [43]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 313
  44. [44]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 326
  45. [45]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 245
  46. [46]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 339
  47. [47]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 345
  48. [48]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 357
  49. [49]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 366
  50. [50]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 378
  51. [51]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 384
  52. [52]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 395
  53. [53]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 577
  54. [54]
    "Plays", Noël Coward Archive Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2020
  55. [55]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 419
  56. [56]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 407
  57. [57]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 430
  58. [58]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 440
  59. [59]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 450
  60. [60]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 452
  61. [61]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 460
  62. [62]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 469
  63. [63]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 481
  64. [64]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 489
  65. [65]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 500
  66. [66]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 513
  67. [67]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 530
  68. [68]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p 534
  69. [69]
    "Knight of the Burning Pestle, The", The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2009 Retrieved 31 March 2020 (subscription required)
  70. [70]
    Castle, p. 38
  71. [71]
    Lesley, p. 230
  72. [72]
    Mander and Mitchenson, p. 381
  73. [73]
    Morley, p. 260
  74. [74]
    Mander and Mitchenson, Appendix 4, pp. 590–593
  75. [75]
    "Appendix 3 (The Relative Popularity of Coward's Works)", Noël Coward Music Index, accessed 29 November 2015
  76. [76]
    Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004, accessed 30 December 2008: requires subscription; and Noel Coward at the IMDB database, accessed 12 March 2009

Sources

  • Castle, Charles (1972). Noël. London: W H Allen. ISBN 978-0-491-00534-0.
  • Hoare, Philip (1995). Noël Coward, A Biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 978-1-4081-0675-4.
  • Lesley, Cole (1976). The Life of Noël Coward. London: Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01288-1.
  • Mander, Raymond; Mitchenson, Joe; Day, Barry Day; Morley, Sheridan (2000) [1957]. Theatrical Companion to Coward (second ed.). London: Oberon. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.
  • Morley, Sheridan (1974) [1969]. A Talent to Amuse. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-003863-7.
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