Bill Francoeur

Bill Francoeur is a musical theatre composer and actor, who has produced over 75 musicals for the amateur theatre market in a career spanning over 25 years.[1]

Children who sing on Francoeur's CDs include Brooke Mercer, Kelsie Mercer, Kate Louis, Victoria Olona and Jessica Olona.

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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 long time 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!, was produced Off-Broadway.[4]

Francoeur began to collaborate with playwright Tim Kelly in the mid-1980s, with whom he created Oz! and numerous other works.[5]

Francoeur lives in Colorado and has three children.[2]

Musicals

  • Babes in Toyland
  • Bah, Humbug!
  • The Big Bad Musical
  • Blue Suede Paws
  • Cactus Pass Jamboree
  • Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates
  • Charleston!
  • Cinderella's Glass Slipper
  • Coney Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
  • Disco Knights
  • Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!
  • Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood
  • Drabble (1985)
  • Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
  • The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
  • Everything's Groovy![6] (with Tim Kelly)
  • Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
  • Flapper![7] (with Kelly)
  • Flower Power![8]
  • Friday Knight Fever
  • Fussin' an' a-Feudin'
  • Going... Going... Gone With the Breeze
  • Gone With the Breeze[9] (with Kelly)
  • The Great Ghost Chase
  • Groovy!
  • Guess What I Did Last Summer
  • Hankerin' Hillbillies
  • The Headless Horseman
  • Hee Haw Hayride (1993)[10] (with Kelly)
  • The Internal Teen Machine
  • Is There a Doctor in the House?[11] (with Kelly)
  • Jack and the Giant
  • Jitterbug Juliet[12]
  • Kilroy Was Here (1995)
  • Kokonut Island (with Kelly)
  • Kokonut Kapers[13]
  • Krazy Kamp — The Musical
  • Lady Pirates of the Caribbean[14]
  • Little Luncheonette of Terror (1988)[15] (with Kelly)
  • A Little Princess — The Musical (1996)
  • Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang[16] (with Kelly)
  • Magnolia[17]
  • Murder at Crooked House[18]
  • The Nifty Fifties (with Kelly)
  • No Strings Attached
  • Nutcracker
  • Oh, Horrors! It's Murder!
  • Oz! (1995)[19] (with Kelly)
  • Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo![20]
  • 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[21] (with Kelly)
  • The Stories of Scheherazade
  • The Story of Hansel and Gretel
  • The Story of Velveteen Rabbit
  • Sunset Trail
  • Surf's Up![22]
  • Tale of Beauty and the Beast
  • There's a Monster in My Closet!
  • Through the Looking Glass
  • Time and Time Again (1987)[23] (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
  • The Wishing Tree (1988)
  • Wonderland!
  • Wrangler Ranch
  • The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man[24]
  • You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf[25] (with Kelly)

References

  1. ^ MTI profile
  2. ^ a b Biography of Francoeur
  3. ^ Information about Western Star
  4. ^ Pioneer Drama Service profile of Francoeur
  5. ^ Information about the Kelly-Francoeur collaboration
  6. ^ Information about Everything's Groovy!
  7. ^ Information about Flapper!
  8. ^ Information about Flower Power!
  9. ^ Information about Gone With the Breeze
  10. ^ Information about Hee Haw Hayride
  11. ^ Information about Is There a Doctor in the House?
  12. ^ Information about Jitterbug Juliet
  13. ^ Information about Kokonut Kapers
  14. ^ Information about Lady Pirates of the Caribbean
  15. ^ Information about Little Luncheonette of Terror
  16. ^ Information about Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang
  17. ^ Information about Magnolia
  18. ^ Information about Murder at Crooked House
  19. ^ Information about Oz!
  20. ^ Information about Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo!
  21. ^ Information about Snow White
  22. ^ Information about Surf's Up!
  23. ^ Information about Time and Time Again
  24. ^ Information about The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man
  25. ^ Information about You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf

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