Bill Francoeur

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Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". 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]

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Career

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

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  • 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

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  3. ↑ Information about Western Star
  4. ↑ Oz!, from Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
  5. ↑ Pioneer Drama Service profile of Francoeur
  6. ↑ Information about the Kelly-Francoeur collaboration
  7. ↑ Babes in Toyland
  8. ↑ Bah, Humbug!
  9. ↑ The Big Bad Musical
  10. ↑ Blue Suede Paws!
  11. ↑ Cactus Pass Jamboree
  12. ↑ Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates
  13. ↑ Charleston!
  14. ↑ Cinderella's Glass Slipper
  15. ↑ Coney Island of Dr. Moreau
  16. ↑ Disco Knights
  17. ↑ Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!
  18. ↑ Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood
  19. ↑ Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
  20. ↑ Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
  21. ↑ Everything's Groovy!
  22. ↑ Flapper!
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  24. ↑ Information about Gone With the Breeze
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  34. ↑ Catalog description for Oz!
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  41. ↑ Information about You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf

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