Ivor Novello

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Plays authored

• Arc de Triomphe
• Breakaway
• Careless Rapture
• Comedienne
• Crest of the Wave
• The Dancing Years
• Fresh Fields
• Full House
• Gay’s the Word
• Glamorous Night
• I Lived with You
• King’s Rhapsody
• Ladies In Action
• Murder In Mayfair
• Perchance to Dream
• Proscenium
• Second Helping
• Symphony in Two Flats
• We Proudly Present

Past productions

• Composer, Perchance to Dream 1984 – 1985, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Writer & Composer, Perchance to Dream, Wolsey Theatre Company October – November 1979, Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.
• Composer, Glamorous Night 1975 – 1976, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Composer, King’s Rhapsody 1972 – 1973, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Composer, Glamorous Night 1970 – 1971, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon.
• Composer, The Dancing Years 1967 – 1968, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Composer, Glamorous Night 1953 – 1954, Empire Theatre, Bristol.
• Composer, Gay’s the Word 1952 – 1953, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Composer, King’s Rhapsody 1951 – 1952, Bristol Hippodrome.
• Composer / Nikki, King’s Rhapsody 15^th September 1949 – 6^th October 1951, Palace Theatre, London.
• Composer, The Dancing Years 1950 – 1951, Film Version.
• Music & Book, Gay’s the Word 17^th October 1950 – 28^th June 1952, Saville Theatre, London, Palace Theatre, Manchester, and other locations.
• Composer, Perchance to Dream 1949 – 1950, Bristol Hippodrome.
• 1066 and All That 1945 – 1946, Palace Theatre, London.
• / Composer, Perchance to Dream 1944 – 1945, London Hippodrome.
• Composer, Arc de Triomphe 9^th November 1943 – May 1944, Phoenix Theatre, London.
• / Composer, The Dancing Years 1941 – 1942, Adelphi Theatre, London.
• Director, Breakaway, Windsor Repertory Company 4^th – 9^th August 1941, Theatre Royal, Windsor.
• Justin, Ladies In Action 10^th April – 4^th May 1940, Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
• Composer, Second Helping 1939 – 1940, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• / Composer, The Dancing Years 1938 – 1939, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
• Composer, Crest of the Wave 1938 – 1939, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Henry V 1938 – 1939, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
• Composer, Careless Rapture 1937 – 1938, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• / Composer, Crest of the Wave 1^st September – ? 1937, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
• Careless Rapture 1936 – 1937, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
• Lord George Hell / Producer, The Happy Hypocrite 23^rd March – 30^th May 1936, His Majesty’s Theatre, London (now Her Majesty’s Theatre, London), Southport Theatre, and other locations.
• Composer, How Do, Princess! 1935 – 1936, Prince’s Theatre, Manchester.
• Anthony Allen / Composer, Glamorous Night 1934 – 1935, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
• Composer, Fresh Fields, D. Rewse-White 1933 – 1934, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Lieut Col Sir Geoffrey Bethel, Proscenium started 1933, Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London).
• / Composer, Symphony in Two Flats 1930 – 1931, Film Version.
• Symphony in Two Flats 1929 – 1930, New Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London.
• Symphony in Two Flats 1929 – 1930, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Music, The House that Jack Built, Jack Hulbert and Paul Murray 3^rd September 1929 – 21^st June 1930, Adelphi Theatre, London, Liverpool Empire, and other locations.
• Max Clement, The Truth Game 1928 – 1929, Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London).
• Sirio Marson, Sirocco started 24^th November 1927, Daly’s Theatre, (London).
• / Composer, The Rat 1925 – 1926, Film Version.
• The Rat 1925 – 1926, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Cellini, The Firebrand started 1926, Wyndham’s Theatre, London.
• / Composer, The Rat 1924 – 1925, Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
• Composer, Our Nell 1923 – 1924, Gaiety Theatre, London.
• Composer, Puppets 1923 – 1924, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London.
• Composer, The Dippers 1922 – 1923, Criterion Theatre, London.
• Composer, A to Z 1921 – 1922, Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
• Composer, The Golden Moth 1921 – 1922, Adelphi Theatre, London.
• Composer, Who’s Hooper? 1920 – 1921, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.
• Composer, Who’s Hooper? 1919 – 1920, Adelphi Theatre, London.
• Composer, Arlette 1917 – 1918, Shaftesbury Theatre (1888 – closed 1941), London.
• Composer, Tabs 1917 – 1918, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London.
• Composer, See-Saw 1916 – 1917, Comedy Theatre, London (now Harold Pinter Theatre, London).
• Composer, Theodore and Co. 1916 – 1917, Gaiety Theatre, London.
• As It Used To Be 1914 – 1915, Little Theatre, London.