Musicals with Music and Lyrics by Stephen Murray
(Books by other fine writers)

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Twelfth Night

Book by Tom Large, adapted from the play by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's popular comedy is now a modern musical. This is the first collaboration of Murray and Large. If audiences have half as much fun watching this show as we did writing it then this is sure to be a huge hit! Shakespeare's plot of shipwreck, disguises, mistaken identity, and eccentric characters remains. The language is modernized, some of the major male roles are now major female roles, and the music is loads of fun.

Steve's favorite songs from the show: Like No Man I've Ever Known and Viola's Lament

Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls

Book by Craig Sodaro

Craig Sodaro has written a great story set in Florida during the Second World War. This was a great opportunity for me to write music in the 1940's style. There are lots of great 3-part songs for Betty, Ruthie, and Sissy in this one.

Steve's favorite song from this show: Make A Little Noise (A tune first heard at Worcester Foothills Theatre in The Great American Back Porch Vaudeville Revue

De Boogie-Woogie Bugle Meiden

(Dutch Translation of Boogie-Woogie Bugle Girls)

Now folks in the Netherlands can enjoy a Murray Musical, too! Marianne Kemmer has translated Craig Sodaro's script and not only translated my lyrics, but made them rhyme in Dutch as well!

Steve's favorite song from this show: Maak Eens Een Geluid

Just Another High School Musical

This is the musical version of Bryan Starchman's highly successful Just Another High School Play. A group of high school actors, abandoned by their director, have to fend for themselves in front of an audience without knowing what show they are doing. The assistant director and stage manager find a box of random scripts which they hand out to the cast in order to create the most unusual musical ever staged. The show is full of physical comedy, gags, and lots of satirical takes on some famous pieces of theater.

Steve's favorite song from the show: Gratuitous Number featuring Ben Murray as the soloist.

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Inspector Incognito and the Kansas City Kid

Book by Tim Kelly

This is a Wild West Musical based on the Russian Play, The Inspector-General by Nikolai Gogol. A town full of felonious incompetent fools mistakes a drifting grifter (or would that be a grifting drifter?) for a detective sent from the town's East Coast developer.

Steve's favorite song from this show: We're Sick of Being Nice

Rocky of the Rainforest

Book by Jay Moriarty

Film Producer Larry Livermore needs a star for his new film Archie of the Amazon. When no actor fits the part, Larry heads for the Amazon jungle to find a real jungle man. He finds Rocky and his gorilla friend, Ingagi.A delightful goofball comedy.

Steve's favorite song from this show: The Natives are Restless

Tales of Terror from Nightmare High School

Book by Patrick Rainville Dorn

Meeting in the empty school auditorium one stormy night, these adventurous high school students' ultimate mission is to learn the identity of the enigmatic Locker Stalker. What begins as a half-hearted prank turns into a roller coaster night of great tunes, hilarious goons and side-splitting laughter as each student is confronted by his or her nightmare... literally!

Steve's favorite song from this show: Spudzilla (Great work on the recording by featured vocalist, Ben Murray)

This Old House

Book by Tim Kelly

Mona Babbington's old Victorian mansion, once a beauty, is now a rooming house for rambunctious college students. With the help of her scatterbrain nephew and devoted niece, Mona struggles to hold off the wrecker's ball. It's not easy, considering Silias Price, the town octopus, is eager to turn the property into a parking lot. To raise money, the students decide to sell all the junk in the old house at a yard sale, but little do they know what complications they face!

Steve's favorite song from this show: Greed, Deceit, and Evil Business

A Twist of the Tongue

Book by Cynthia Davies and Steven Fendrich

Students who have sung in a chorus directed by Stephen Murray know of his passion for tongue twisters as choral warm-ups. Who else would get to write the songs for a show about a tongue twisting competition? This show is great fun and can be even more fun if the actors have trouble with the tongue twisters!

Steve's favorite song from the show: Here's to the Bard

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