Songbook (musical)

Songbook
MusicMonty Norman
LyricsMonty Norman, Julian More
BookMonty Norman, Julian More
Productions1979 London
1979 Wisbech
1981 Broadway
AwardsOlivier Award (Best New Musical 1979)
Ivor Novello Award

Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book and lyrics by Monty Norman and Julian More. The musical tells the improbable life story of a fictional songwriter, born in Liverpool in 1908, who has a colourful career with extraordinary successes and setbacks, loves and losses, and brushes with celebrities and historic events; he dies celebrated.

It premiered at the Gielgud Theatre in London on 25 July 1979, where it ran for 208 performances.

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