Sherlock Holmes - The Musical is a musical

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...

 based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

, with music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse is an English composer, lyricist, and playwright.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers. He was educated at University College School in London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge...

. The musical opened on 22 October 1988 at the Northcott Theatre

Northcott Theatre

The Northcott Theatre is a theatre situated on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, England.-History:The Northcott is the seventh building in Exeter to be used as a theatre....

, in Exeter

Exeter

Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the...

 and ran for a limited season of five weeks. It then played at the Cambridge Theatre

Cambridge Theatre

The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30. It was designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie; interior partly by Serge Chermayeff, with interior bronze friezes by sculptor Anthony Gibbons...

 on Seven Dials in London's Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...

 area from 24 April 1989 to 8 July 1989. During this time there were tube

London Underground

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 strikes (public transport) which Ron Moody

Ron Moody

Ron Moody is an English actor.- Personal life :Moody was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Kate and Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was a Lithuanian Jew. He is a cousin of director Laurence Moody and actress Clare...

 was able to work into the script through ad-libs.

A revival tour was staged with Robert Powell in the title role and Roy Barraclough as Watson.

Cast

• Ron Moody
  Ron Moody
  Ron Moody is an English actor.- Personal life :Moody was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Kate and Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was a Lithuanian Jew. He is a cousin of director Laurence Moody and actress Clare...
  
   - Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
  
  
• Derek Waring
  Derek Waring
  Derek Waring was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in Z-Cars from 1969 to 1973...
  
   - Dr Watson
  John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
  John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first...
  
  
• Liz Robertson
  Liz Robertson
  Liz Robertson is an English actress and singer. She is the widow of Playwright and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.Robertson began training at the Finch Stage School at the age of three. Her first professional employment was as a cabaret dancer at London's Savoy Hotel at the age of sixteen...
  
   - Bella Moriarty
• Eileen Battye - Mrs Moriarty
• Roger Llewellyn
  Roger Llewellyn
  Roger Llewellyn is a British actor. He played Sherlock Holmes in 1997, 2007 and 2008 in stage versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes The Last Act and The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes....
  
   - Inspector Lestrade
  Inspector Lestrade
  Inspector G. Lestrade is a fictional character, a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student by the name of Joseph Alexandre Lestrade....
  
  
• Julia Sutton - Mrs Hudson
• Colin Bennett- Boffy Martingdale
• Elena Ferrari - Duchess of Monmouth
• Lewis Barber - Sir Jevons Jarndyce
• Terry Williams - Professor Moriarty
  Professor Moriarty
  Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was...
  
  
• James Francis-Johnston - Fred Wiggins
• Derek Cullen - Harry Mossop
• Jamie Hinde - Potatoes Clark
• Luke Hope - Billy Higgins
• Paul Loxton - Lofty Daniel
• Stephen Matthews - Mick O'Reilly

Song list

Act I

• Sherlock Holmes
• Without Him, there can be no me
• London Is London
• Vendetta
• Look Around You (revival cast only - Robert Powell)
• Her Face
• Anything You Want to Know
• Men Like You
• A Lousy Life
• I shall Find Her

Act II

• Sherlock Holmes (Reprise)
• No Reason
• Halcyon Days
• Without Him, there can be no me (reprise - Bella)
• The Lord Abides In London (Revival cast)
• Apples 'n' Pears
• He's Back
• My Incomparable Best (Revival cast)
• A Million Years Ago - Or Was It Yesterday?
• The Best Of You, The Best Of Me
• Finale - Sherlock Holmes

External links

• Sherlock Holmes: The Musical - The Guide to Musical Theatre