Behind the Iron Mask
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Behind the Iron Mask is a musical
with a book by Colin Scott and Melinda Walker and music and lyrics by John Robinson. It received unanimously unfavourable reviews which forced its early closure. The show draws inspiration from the Man in the Iron Mask
Act II
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
with a book by Colin Scott and Melinda Walker and music and lyrics by John Robinson. It received unanimously unfavourable reviews which forced its early closure. The show draws inspiration from the Man in the Iron Mask
Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol . He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of 34 years...
Musical numbers
Act I- Tristesse
- Antiphonal Madness
- There Is Sweet Music
- Possession - Prelude
- Do You Look for Love?
- Pearls, Pearls, Pearls
- Touch Me - Prelude
- Darkness
- The Enigma
- You'll Never Leave Here
- Possession
Act II
- Prelude to Love/Can't You See
- Turmoil
- Who's the Prisoner Here?
- Touch Me
- Take Me as I Am
- I'm a Lady/In a Single Moment
- Shadowland of Life/Touch Me - Reprise
- Tristesse
- Where Are You?
- If All This Means Love