Bill Francoeur
Bill Francoeur | |
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Born | William Francis Francoeur November 18, 1948 |
Died | February 2, 2015 Lone Tree, Colorado, U.S. | (aged 66)
Occupation | Musician |
Spouse | 1 |
Children | 4 |
Bill Francoeur (November 18, 1948 – February 2, 2015) was a musical theatre composer and actor, who produced over 75 musicals for the amateur theatre market in a career spanning over 25 years.[1]
Children who sing on Francoeur's CDs include Brooke Mercer, Kelsie Mercer, Kate Lewis, Victoria Olona and Jessica Olona.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Francoeur was a junior and senior high school teacher for ten years before turning to playwriting.[2] His work includes the music and lyrics for the musical The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (2005), co-written with longtime collaborator Scott DeTurk, with a book by James Mellon. With DeTurk, Francoeur also created the musical Western Star, with book by Dale Wasserman, garnering California's Elly Award for Best Original Work (1993).[3] In 2002, his children's musical, Oz!,[4] was produced Off-Broadway.[5]
Francoeur began to collaborate with playwright Tim Kelly in the mid-1980s, with whom he created Oz! and numerous other works.[6]
Bill Francoeur died February 2, 2015, in Colorado. He had four children.[2]
Musicals
[edit]- Babes in Toyland[7] (with Tim Kelly)
- Bah, Humbug![8]
- The Big Bad Musical[9]
- Blue Suede Paws[10] (with Kelly)
- Cactus Pass Jamboree[11]
- Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates[12] (also called The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree)
- Charleston![13] (with Kelly)
- Cinderella's Glass Slipper[14]
- Coney Island of Dr. Moreau[15] (with Kelly)
- Disco Knights[16]
- Don't Say No to the U.S.O.![17] (with Kelly)
- Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood[18]
- Drabble (1985)
- Enchanted Sleeping Beauty[19]
- The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast[20]
- Everything's Groovy![21] (with Kelly)
- Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
- Flapper![22] (with Kelly)
- Flower Power![23]
- Friday Knight Fever
- Fussin' an' a-Feudin'
- Going... Going... Gone With the Breeze
- Gone With the Breeze[24] (with Kelly)
- The Great Ghost Chase
- Groovy!
- Guess What I Did Last Summer
- Hankerin' Hillbillies
- The Headless Horseman
- Hee Haw Hayride (1993)[25] (with Kelly)
- The Internal Teen Machine
- Is There a Doctor in the House?[26] (with Kelly)
- Jack and the Giant
- Jitterbug Juliet[27]
- Kilroy Was Here (1995)
- Kokonut Island (with Kelly)
- Kokonut Kapers[28]
- Krazy Kamp — The Musical
- Lady Pirates of the Caribbean[29]
- Little Luncheonette of Terror (1988)[30] (with Kelly)
- A Little Princess — The Musical (1996)
- Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang[31] (with Kelly)
- Magnolia[32]
- Murder at Crooked House[33]
- The Nifty Fifties (with Kelly)
- No Strings Attached
- Nutcracker
- Oh, Horrors! It's Murder!
- Oz! (1995)[34][35] (with Kelly)
- Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo![36]
- Pied Piper - The Musical
- A Pirate's Life For Me
- Rock Around the Block
- Romeo and Harriet
- Royal Bachelor
- The Secret Garden (1996) (with Kelly)
- Shake With a Zombie (with Kelly)
- Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek (1997)
- Sleepy Hollow
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs[37] (with Kelly)
- The Stories of Scheherazade
- The Story of Hansel and Gretel
- The Story of Velveteen Rabbit
- Sunset Trail
- Surf's Up![38]
- Tale of Beauty and the Beast
- There's a Monster in My Closet!
- Through the Looking Glass
- Time and Time Again (1987)[39] (with Kelly)
- Tiny Thumbelina
- Twinderella - The Musical
- Unhappily Ever After
- Wagon Wheels West
- Way Out West in a Dress
- We the People — the Musical
- Westward, Whoa!
- When in Rome...
- The Wild, Wild, Wildest West
- Wipeout!
- The Wishing Tree (1988)
- Wonderland!
- Wrangler Ranch
- The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man[40]
- You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf[41] (with Kelly)
References
[edit]- ^ "Bill Francouer MTI profile". Archived from the original on October 7, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
- ^ a b Biography of Francoeur
- ^ Information about Western Star
- ^ Oz!, from Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
- ^ Pioneer Drama Service profile of Francoeur
- ^ Information about the Kelly-Francoeur collaboration
- ^ Babes in Toyland
- ^ Bah, Humbug!
- ^ The Big Bad Musical
- ^ Blue Suede Paws!
- ^ Cactus Pass Jamboree
- ^ Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates
- ^ Charleston!
- ^ Cinderella's Glass Slipper
- ^ Coney Island of Dr. Moreau
- ^ Disco Knights
- ^ Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!
- ^ Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood
- ^ Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
- ^ Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
- ^ Everything's Groovy!
- ^ Flapper!
- ^ "Flower Power!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ Information about Gone With the Breeze
- ^ "Information about Hee Haw Hayride". Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Is There a Doctor in the House?". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Jitterbug Juliet". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ Information about Kokonut Kapers
- ^ "Information about Lady Pirates of the Caribbean". Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Little Luncheonette of Terror". Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang". Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Magnolia". Archived from the original on December 12, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Murder at Crooked House". Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ Catalog description for Oz!
- ^ "Information about Oz!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Snow White" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ "Information about Surf's Up!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ Information about Time and Time Again
- ^ "Information about The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
- ^ Information about You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf