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Noël Coward on stage and screen

August 30, 2023

This is a list of works and appearances by the English playwright, actor, singer and songwriter Noël Coward.

Stage works Edit

Title Description Written Premiere
The Last Chapter One-act comedy 1917[n 1] 1917[1][n 2]
Woman and Whisky One-act play 1918[n 3] 1918[2]
The Rat Trap Play in four acts 1918[n 4] 1926[4]
I'll Leave It to You Light comedy in three acts 1919 1920[5]
The Young Idea Comedy of youth in three acts 1921 1922[6]
Sirocco Play in three acts 1921[n 4] 1927[7][8][n 5]
The Better Half Comedy in one act 1921 1922[9]
The Queen Was in the Parlour[n 6] Play in three acts 1922[n 4] 1926[11]
Mild Oats Play in one act 1922 Unknown[n 7]
London Calling! Revue 1922–23[n 8] 1923[14]
Weatherwise Comedy in two scenes 1923[n 4] 1932[15]
Fallen Angels Comedy in three acts 1923[n 4] 1925[16]
The Vortex Play in three acts 1923 1924[17]
Hay Fever Comedy in three acts 1924 1925[18]
Easy Virtue Play in three acts 1924 1925[19]
On with the Dance Revue[n 9] 1924–25 1925[21]
Semi-Monde[n 10] Play in three acts 1926 1977[22]
This Was a Man Comedy in three acts 1926 1926[23]
The Marquise Comedy in three acts 1926 1927[24]
Home Chat Play in three acts 1927 1927[25]
This Year of Grace[n 11] Revue 1927–28 1928[26]
Bitter Sweet[n 12] Operetta 1928–29 1929[28]
Private Lives Intimate comedy in three acts 1929 1930[29]
Post-Mortem Play in eight scenes 1930 1992[n 13]
Cavalcade Play in three parts 1930–31 1931[31]
Words and Music Revue 1932 1932[32]
Design For Living Comedy in three acts 1932 1933[33]
Conversation Piece Romantic comedy with music 1933 1934[34]
Point Valaine Play in three acts 1934 1934[35]
Tonight at 8.30
Cycle of ten short plays, presented in groups of three:
We Were Dancing Comedy in two scenes 1935 1935[36]
The Astonished Heart Play in six scenes 1935 1935[36]
Red Peppers Interlude with music 1935 1935[36]
Hands Across the Sea Light comedy in one scene 1935 1935[37]
Fumed Oak Unpleasant comedy in two scenes 1935 1935[38]
Shadow Play Play with music 1935 1935[39]
Family Album Victorian comedy with music 1935 1935[40]
Star Chamber Light comedy in one act 1936 1936[41]
Ways and Means Comedy in three scenes 1936 1936[42]
Still Life Play in five scenes 1936 1936[43]
Operette Musical play 1937 1938[44]
Set to Music[n 14] Revue 1938 1939[46]
Present Laughter[n 15] Play in three acts 1939 1942[47]
This Happy Breed Play in three acts 1939[n 16] 1942[48]
Blithe Spirit Play in three acts 1941 1941[49]
Sigh No More Revue 1945 1945[50]
Pacific 1860 Musical romance 1946 1946[51]
Peace In Our Time Play in two acts 1946 1947[52]
Long Island Sound Comedy of manners in two acts[n 17] 1947 1989[54]
Ace of Clubs Musical play 1949 1950[55]
South Sea Bubble[n 18] Comedy in three acts 1949 1951[56]
Relative Values[n 19] Light comedy in three acts 1951 1951[57]
Quadrille Romantic comedy in three acts 1951–52 1952[58]
After the Ball[n 20] Musical play[n 21] 1953 1954[59]
Nude with Violin Comedy in three acts 1954 1956[61]
Volcano Play in two acts 1957 2002[n 22]
Look After Lulu! Three-act farce adapted from Georges Feydeau 1958 1959[62]
Waiting in the Wings Play in three acts 1959–60 1960[63]
Sail Away Musical comedy 1959–60 1961[64]
The Girl Who Came to Supper[n 23] Musical comedy 1963 1963[65]
Suite in Three Keys
Trilogy comprising:
A Song at Twilight Play in two scenes 1965 1966[66]
Shadows of the Evening Play in two scenes 1965 1966[66]
Come Into the Garden, Maud Play in two scenes 1965 1966[66]
Star Quality Comedy in three acts[n 24] 1967 1985[54]
Cowardy Custard Revue Various[n 25] 1972[67]
Oh, Coward! Revue Various[n 26] 1972[68]

Stage appearances Edit

London, except where stated otherwise

Year Role Venue
1911 Prince Mussel in The Goldfish by Lila Field Little, Royal Court Theatre, Crystal Palace
Cannard in The Great Name by Charles Hawtrey Prince of Wales
William in Where the Rainbow Ends by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey Savoy
1912 Mushroom in An Autumn Idyll by Ruby Ginner Savoy
The Boy in A Little Fowl Play, by Harold Owen London Coliseum
William in Where the Rainbow Ends Garrick
1913 An Angel in Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann Liverpool Playhouse and Gaiety, Manchester
Tommy in War in the Air by Frank Dupree London Palladium
Understudy for Reginald Sheffield as Buster in Never Say Die by W. H. Post Apollo
Charity matinee of A Little Fowl Play London Opera House
Slightly in Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie Duke of York's
1914 Toured as Slightly in Peter Pan
1915 Slightly in Peter Pan Duke of York's
The Slacker in Where the Rainbow Ends Garrick
1916 Charles Wykeham in Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas tour
Basil Pyecroft in The Light Blues, by Mark Ambient and Jack Hulbert (and understudy to Hulbert) Shaftesbury
Professional dancer with Eileen Denis at the Elysée restaurant
Jack Morrison in The Happy Family, by Cecil Aldin and Adrian Ross Prince of Wales
1917 Leicester Boyd in Wild Heather, by Dorothy Brandon Gaiety, Manchester
Ripley Guildford in The Saving Grace, by Haddon Chambers Garrick
1918 Courtney Bourner in Scandal by Cosmond Harrison Strand
1919 Ralph in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Francis Beaumont[n 27] Birmingham Repertory
1920 Bobbie Dermott in his own play, I'll Leave It to You Gaiety Manchester and New
Ralph in The Knight of the Burning Pestle Kingsway
1921 Clay Collins in Polly with a Past, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton St James's
1922 Sholto Brent in his own play, The Young Idea Prince's Theatre, Bristol, and tour
1923 Sholto Brent Savoy
Appeared in London Calling! (of which he was co-author) Duke of York's
1924 Nicky Lancaster in his own play, The Vortex Everyman Hampstead and Royalty
1925 Nicky Lancaster Comedy, Little, Henry Miller's, New York
1926 Lewis Dodd in The Constant Nymph , by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean New
1928 Clark Storey in The Second Man, by S. N. Behrman Playhouse Theatre
Appeared in his own revue, This Year of Grace Baltimore, and Selwyn Theatre, New York
1930 Captain Stanhope in Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff Victoria. Singapore
Elyot Chase in his own play Private Lives Tour and Phoenix.
Fred in his own sketch Some Other Private Lives (charity matinee) Hippodrome
1931 Elyot Chase in Private Lives Times Square, New York
1933 Leo in his own play, Design for Living Hanna Cleveland and Ethel Barrymore, New York
1934 Paul, Duc de Chaucigny-Varennes, in his own operetta, Conversation Piece His Majesty's
1935 Pre-London tour in his own one-act plays, Tonight at 8.30
1936 Appeared in the ten plays of Tonight at 8.30 Phoenix
Appeared in the same plays (with the exception of Star Chamber) National, New York
1942 Charles Condomine in his own play, Blithe Spirit.[n 28] St James's
Toured in "Noël Coward's Play Parade" as Charles Condomine and as Garry Essendine and Frank Gibbons in his own plays, Present Laughter and This Happy Breed
1943 Garry Essendine in Present Laughter and Frank Gibbons in This Happy Breed Haymarket
1945 Two performances in his own revue, Sigh No More.[n 29] Piccadilly
1947 Garry Essendine in revival of Present Laughter Haymarket
1948 Three performances in Tonight at 8.30 (Hands Across the Sea, Shadow Play and Fumed Oak) during US tour.[n 30]
Appeared as Max Aramont in Joyeux Chagrins, the French translation of his Present Laughter Théâtre Édouard VII, Paris
1951 Concert, performing his own songs as try-out for London season (below) Theatre Royal, Brighton
Solo cabaret season (October) Café de Paris
1952 Two cabaret performances with Mary Martin in aid of the Actors' Orphanage (January and November) Café de Paris
Second solo cabaret season (June) Café de Paris
1953 King Magnus in The Apple Cart, by Bernard Shaw Haymarket
Third London solo cabaret season Café de Paris
Appeared in Stars at Midnight, one-off performance in aid of the Actors' Orphanage Palladium
1954 Introduced Marlene Dietrich's cabaret act Café de Paris
Appeared in Night of 100 Stars, in aid of the Actors' Orphanage Palladium
Fourth and final London solo cabaret season Café de Paris
Appeared at the Royal Variety Performance Palladium
1955 Solo cabaret season at the Desert Inn, Las Vegas
1956 Narrated Ogden Nash's verses for Carnival of the Animals Carnegie Hall, New York
1957 Sebastien in his own Nude with Violin Tour and Belasco Theatre New York and second tour
1958 Garry Essendine in Present Laughter Belasco Theatre and tour
Appeared in Night of 100 Stars, in aid of the Actors' Orphanage Palladium
Appeared in gala cabaret in Nice
1966 Appeared in his own Suite in Three Keys as Sir Hugo Latymer (A Song at Twilight), George Hilgay (Shadows of the Evening) and Verner Conklin (Come Into the Garden, Maud) Queen's
Source: Mander and Mitchenson.[74]

Songs Edit

Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by:

In the society's second tier of favourites are:

  • "The Party's Over Now" (Words and Music)
  • "Dearest Love" (Operette)
  • "Dear Little Café" (Bitter Sweet)
  • "Parisian Pierrot" (London Calling!)
  • "Men About Town" (Tonight at 8.30)
  • "Twentieth Century Blues" (Cavalcade)
  • "Uncle Harry" (Pacific 1860)
  • "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" (1943)
  • "There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner" (Globe Review)
  • "Dance, Little Lady" (This Year of Grace)
  • "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" (Tonight at 8.30)
  • "I Went to a Marvellous Party" (Set to Music)
  • "Nina" (Sigh No More)
  • "A Bar on the Piccola Marina" (1954)
  • "Why Must the Show Go On?" (Together With Music)
  • "Sail Away" (Ace of Clubs and Sail Away)
  • "Zigeuner" (Bitter Sweet)[75]

Cinema Edit

Adaptations and original films Edit

Actor Edit

Notes, references and sources Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Co-written with Esmé Wynne under their joint pen name, Esnomel.[1]
  2. ^ The title was changed to Ida Collaborates during the run.[1]
  3. ^ Co-written with Wynne.[2]
  4. ^ a b c d e One of five plays written early in Coward's career but not produced until, after his successes beginning with The Vortex and Hay Fever, producers were willing to stage them.[3]
  5. ^ Revised in 1927.[8]
  6. ^ Originally called Nadya, then Souvenir.[10]
  7. ^ Mander and Mitchenson describe the play as unperformed,[12] but newspaper archives record occasional performances from 1934 onwards. It is unclear if any of these were given by a professional company.[13]
  8. ^ Co-written with Ronald Jeans.[14]
  9. ^ Mainly by Coward, with some music by Philip Braham.[20]
  10. ^ Originally titled Ritz Bar.[22]
  11. ^ Tited Charles B. Cochran's 1928 Revue at its try-out in Manchester.[26]
  12. ^ Originally titled Sari Linden.[27]
  13. ^ It was first presented in a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1944 and was given other amateur productions, but its first professional production was in 1992.[30]
  14. ^ A revised edition of Words and Music for Broadway.[45]
  15. ^ Originally titled Sweet Sorrow.[47]
  16. ^ Because of the outbreak of the Second World War, the 1939 production was cancelled; when Coward returned to acting in 1942, the play was finally produced.[48]
  17. ^ Based on Coward's 1939 short story What Mad Pursuit?[53]
  18. ^ Originally titled Island Fling for its world premiere in the US and later titled Home and Colonial.[56]
  19. ^ Originally titled Moxie.[57]
  20. ^ Based on Lady Windermere's Fan.[59]
  21. ^ Originally described as an operetta.[60]
  22. ^ A single "rehearsed reading" was given in June 1989 at The Mill, Sonning.[53]
  23. ^ Based on The Sleeping Prince.[65]
  24. ^ Adapted by Coward from his 1951 short story of the same name.[53]
  25. ^ This was an anthology of Coward's words and music from the 1920s to the 1960s.[67]
  26. ^ A second Coward anthology.[68]
  27. ^ In Coward's day the play was thought to be a collaboration between Beaumont and John Fletcher:[69] Coward, who found the play boring, was uncomplimentary about both playwrights.[70]
  28. ^ For two weeks, to give the regular player of the part, Cecil Parker, a holiday during the long run.[71]
  29. ^ The regular player, Cyril Ritchard, was ill.[72]
  30. ^ Covering while the regular player, Graham Payn, was ill. This was the last time Coward appeared onstage with Gertrude Lawrence.[73]

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c Mander and Mitchenson, p. 25
  2. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 26
  3. ^ Morley (1974), pp. 111 (The Rat Trap); 77 (Sirocco); 106 (The Queen Was in the Parlour); and 92 (Fallen Angels); and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 81 (Weatherwise)
  4. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 28
  5. ^ "I'll Leave It to You", The Times, 22 July 1920, p. 10; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 36
  6. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 43
  7. ^ "Daly's Theatre", The Times, 25 November 1927, p. 14
  8. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 52
  9. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 62
  10. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 65
  11. ^ Ervine, St John. "At the Play", The Observer, 29 August 1926, p. 9; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 65
  12. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 584
  13. ^ "Mild Oats to Be Given Before Theatre Guild", The Palm Beach Post, 2 October 1934, p. 6; "Today at the Theaters", The Ithaca Journal, 11 April 1936, p. 2
  14. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 74
  15. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 81
  16. ^ "Globe Theatre", The Times, 22 April 1925, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 83
  17. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 92
  18. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 103
  19. ^ "Duke of York's Theatre", The Times, 10 June 1926, p. 14; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 114
  20. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 128
  21. ^ "On with the Dance", The Times, 1 May 1925, p. 12
  22. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 140
  23. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 144
  24. ^ "Criterion Theatre", The Times, 17 February 1927, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 156
  25. ^ "Duke of York's Theatre", The Times, 26 October 1927, p. 12; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 166
  26. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 171
  27. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 183
  28. ^ "Bitter Sweet", The Times, 19 July 1929, p. 12
  29. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 208
  30. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 219
  31. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 228
  32. ^ "Mr Coward's Revue", The Times, 17 September 1932, p. 8; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 240
  33. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 249
  34. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 260
  35. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 271
  36. ^ a b c "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1935, p. 11; and "To-night at 8.30", The Times, 20 August 1935, p. 10
  37. ^ "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 297
  38. ^ "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 300
  39. ^ "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 19 October 1935, p. 15; and Mander and Mitchenson, p. 303
  40. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 306
  41. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 308
  42. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 311
  43. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 313
  44. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 326
  45. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 245
  46. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 339
  47. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 345
  48. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 357
  49. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 366
  50. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 378
  51. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 384
  52. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 395
  53. ^ a b c Mander and Mitchenson, p. 577
  54. ^ a b "Plays", Noël Coward Archive Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2020
  55. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 419
  56. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 407
  57. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 430
  58. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 440
  59. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 450
  60. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 452
  61. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 460
  62. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 469
  63. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 481
  64. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 489
  65. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 500
  66. ^ a b c Mander and Mitchenson, p. 513
  67. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 530
  68. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p 534
  69. ^ "Knight of the Burning Pestle, The", The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2009 Retrieved 31 March 2020 (subscription required)
  70. ^ Castle, p. 38
  71. ^ Lesley, p. 230
  72. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 381
  73. ^ Morley, p. 260
  74. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, Appendix 4, pp. 590–593
  75. ^ "Appendix 3 (The Relative Popularity of Coward's Works)", Noël Coward Music Index, accessed 29 November 2015
  76. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004, accessed 30 December 2008: requires subscription; and Noel Coward at the IMDB database, accessed 12 March 2009

Sources Edit

  • Castle, Charles (1972). Noël. London: W H Allen. ISBN 978-0-491-00534-0.
  • Hoare, Philip (1995). Noël Coward, A Biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 978-1-4081-0675-4.
  • Lesley, Cole (1976). The Life of Noël Coward. London: Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01288-1.
  • Mander, Raymond; Mitchenson, Joe; Day, Barry Day; Morley, Sheridan (2000) [1957]. Theatrical Companion to Coward (second ed.). London: Oberon. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.
  • Morley, Sheridan (1974) [1969]. A Talent to Amuse. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-003863-7.

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This is a list of works and appearances by the English playwright actor singer and songwriter Noel Coward Contents 1 Stage works 2 Stage appearances 3 Songs 4 Cinema 4 1 Adaptations and original films 4 2 Actor 5 Notes references and sources 5 1 Notes 5 2 References 5 3 SourcesStage works EditTitle Description Written PremiereThe Last Chapter One act comedy 1917 n 1 1917 1 n 2 Woman and Whisky One act play 1918 n 3 1918 2 The Rat Trap Play in four acts 1918 n 4 1926 4 I ll Leave It to You Light comedy in three acts 1919 1920 5 The Young Idea Comedy of youth in three acts 1921 1922 6 Sirocco Play in three acts 1921 n 4 1927 7 8 n 5 The Better Half Comedy in one act 1921 1922 9 The Queen Was in the Parlour n 6 Play in three acts 1922 n 4 1926 11 Mild Oats Play in one act 1922 Unknown n 7 London Calling Revue 1922 23 n 8 1923 14 Weatherwise Comedy in two scenes 1923 n 4 1932 15 Fallen Angels Comedy in three acts 1923 n 4 1925 16 The Vortex Play in three acts 1923 1924 17 Hay Fever Comedy in three acts 1924 1925 18 Easy Virtue Play in three acts 1924 1925 19 On with the Dance Revue n 9 1924 25 1925 21 Semi Monde n 10 Play in three acts 1926 1977 22 This Was a Man Comedy in three acts 1926 1926 23 The Marquise Comedy in three acts 1926 1927 24 Home Chat Play in three acts 1927 1927 25 This Year of Grace n 11 Revue 1927 28 1928 26 Bitter Sweet n 12 Operetta 1928 29 1929 28 Private Lives Intimate comedy in three acts 1929 1930 29 Post Mortem Play in eight scenes 1930 1992 n 13 Cavalcade Play in three parts 1930 31 1931 31 Words and Music Revue 1932 1932 32 Design For Living Comedy in three acts 1932 1933 33 Conversation Piece Romantic comedy with music 1933 1934 34 Point Valaine Play in three acts 1934 1934 35 Tonight at 8 30Cycle of ten short plays presented in groups of three We Were Dancing Comedy in two scenes 1935 1935 36 The Astonished Heart Play in six scenes 1935 1935 36 Red Peppers Interlude with music 1935 1935 36 Hands Across the Sea Light comedy in one scene 1935 1935 37 Fumed Oak Unpleasant comedy in two scenes 1935 1935 38 Shadow Play Play with music 1935 1935 39 Family Album Victorian comedy with music 1935 1935 40 Star Chamber Light comedy in one act 1936 1936 41 Ways and Means Comedy in three scenes 1936 1936 42 Still Life Play in five scenes 1936 1936 43 Operette Musical play 1937 1938 44 Set to Music n 14 Revue 1938 1939 46 Present Laughter n 15 Play in three acts 1939 1942 47 This Happy Breed Play in three acts 1939 n 16 1942 48 Blithe Spirit Play in three acts 1941 1941 49 Sigh No More Revue 1945 1945 50 Pacific 1860 Musical romance 1946 1946 51 Peace In Our Time Play in two acts 1946 1947 52 Long Island Sound Comedy of manners in two acts n 17 1947 1989 54 Ace of Clubs Musical play 1949 1950 55 South Sea Bubble n 18 Comedy in three acts 1949 1951 56 Relative Values n 19 Light comedy in three acts 1951 1951 57 Quadrille Romantic comedy in three acts 1951 52 1952 58 After the Ball n 20 Musical play n 21 1953 1954 59 Nude with Violin Comedy in three acts 1954 1956 61 Volcano Play in two acts 1957 2002 n 22 Look After Lulu Three act farce adapted from Georges Feydeau 1958 1959 62 Waiting in the Wings Play in three acts 1959 60 1960 63 Sail Away Musical comedy 1959 60 1961 64 The Girl Who Came to Supper n 23 Musical comedy 1963 1963 65 Suite in Three KeysTrilogy comprising A Song at Twilight Play in two scenes 1965 1966 66 Shadows of the Evening Play in two scenes 1965 1966 66 Come Into the Garden Maud Play in two scenes 1965 1966 66 Star Quality Comedy in three acts n 24 1967 1985 54 Cowardy Custard Revue Various n 25 1972 67 Oh Coward Revue Various n 26 1972 68 Stage appearances EditLondon except where stated otherwise Year Role Venue1911 Prince Mussel in The Goldfish by Lila Field Little Royal Court Theatre Crystal PalaceCannard in The Great Name by Charles Hawtrey Prince of WalesWilliam in Where the Rainbow Ends by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey Savoy1912 Mushroom in An Autumn Idyll by Ruby Ginner SavoyThe Boy in A Little Fowl Play by Harold Owen London ColiseumWilliam in Where the Rainbow Ends Garrick1913 An Angel in Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann Liverpool Playhouse and Gaiety ManchesterTommy in War in the Air by Frank Dupree London PalladiumUnderstudy for Reginald Sheffield as Buster in Never Say Die by W H Post ApolloCharity matinee of A Little Fowl Play London Opera HouseSlightly in Peter Pan by J M Barrie Duke of York s1914 Toured as Slightly in Peter Pan1915 Slightly in Peter Pan Duke of York sThe Slacker in Where the Rainbow Ends Garrick1916 Charles Wykeham in Charley s Aunt by Brandon Thomas tourBasil Pyecroft in The Light Blues by Mark Ambient and Jack Hulbert and understudy to Hulbert ShaftesburyProfessional dancer with Eileen Denis at the Elysee restaurantJack Morrison in The Happy Family by Cecil Aldin and Adrian Ross Prince of Wales1917 Leicester Boyd in Wild Heather by Dorothy Brandon Gaiety ManchesterRipley Guildford in The Saving Grace by Haddon Chambers Garrick1918 Courtney Bourner in Scandal by Cosmond Harrison Strand1919 Ralph in The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont n 27 Birmingham Repertory1920 Bobbie Dermott in his own play I ll Leave It to You Gaiety Manchester and NewRalph in The Knight of the Burning Pestle Kingsway1921 Clay Collins in Polly with a Past by George Middleton and Guy Bolton St James s1922 Sholto Brent in his own play The Young Idea Prince s Theatre Bristol and tour1923 Sholto Brent SavoyAppeared in London Calling of which he was co author Duke of York s1924 Nicky Lancaster in his own play The Vortex Everyman Hampstead and Royalty1925 Nicky Lancaster Comedy Little Henry Miller s New York1926 Lewis Dodd in The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean New1928 Clark Storey in The Second Man by S N Behrman Playhouse TheatreAppeared in his own revue This Year of Grace Baltimore and Selwyn Theatre New York1930 Captain Stanhope in Journey s End by R C Sherriff Victoria SingaporeElyot Chase in his own play Private Lives Tour and Phoenix Fred in his own sketch Some Other Private Lives charity matinee Hippodrome1931 Elyot Chase in Private Lives Times Square New York1933 Leo in his own play Design for Living Hanna Cleveland and Ethel Barrymore New York1934 Paul Duc de Chaucigny Varennes in his own operetta Conversation Piece His Majesty s1935 Pre London tour in his own one act plays Tonight at 8 301936 Appeared in the ten plays of Tonight at 8 30 PhoenixAppeared in the same plays with the exception of Star Chamber National New York1942 Charles Condomine in his own play Blithe Spirit n 28 St James sToured in Noel Coward s Play Parade as Charles Condomine and as Garry Essendine and Frank Gibbons in his own plays Present Laughter and This Happy Breed1943 Garry Essendine in Present Laughter and Frank Gibbons in This Happy Breed Haymarket1945 Two performances in his own revue Sigh No More n 29 Piccadilly1947 Garry Essendine in revival of Present Laughter Haymarket1948 Three performances in Tonight at 8 30 Hands Across the Sea Shadow Play and Fumed Oak during US tour n 30 Appeared as Max Aramont in Joyeux Chagrins the French translation of his Present Laughter Theatre Edouard VII Paris1951 Concert performing his own songs as try out for London season below Theatre Royal BrightonSolo cabaret season October Cafe de Paris1952 Two cabaret performances with Mary Martin in aid of the Actors Orphanage January and November Cafe de ParisSecond solo cabaret season June Cafe de Paris1953 King Magnus in The Apple Cart by Bernard Shaw HaymarketThird London solo cabaret season Cafe de ParisAppeared in Stars at Midnight one off performance in aid of the Actors Orphanage Palladium1954 Introduced Marlene Dietrich s cabaret act Cafe de ParisAppeared in Night of 100 Stars in aid of the Actors Orphanage PalladiumFourth and final London solo cabaret season Cafe de ParisAppeared at the Royal Variety Performance Palladium1955 Solo cabaret season at the Desert Inn Las Vegas1956 Narrated Ogden Nash s verses for Carnival of the Animals Carnegie Hall New York1957 Sebastien in his own Nude with Violin Tour and Belasco Theatre New York and second tour1958 Garry Essendine in Present Laughter Belasco Theatre and tourAppeared in Night of 100 Stars in aid of the Actors Orphanage PalladiumAppeared in gala cabaret in Nice1966 Appeared in his own Suite in Three Keys as Sir Hugo Latymer A Song at Twilight George Hilgay Shadows of the Evening and Verner Conklin Come Into the Garden Maud Queen sSource Mander and Mitchenson 74 Songs EditCoward wrote more than three hundred songs The Noel Coward Society s website drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society names Mad About the Boy from Words and Music as Coward s most popular song followed in order by I ll See You Again Bitter Sweet Mad Dogs and Englishmen Words and Music If Love Were All Bitter Sweet Someday I ll Find You Private Lives I ll Follow My Secret Heart Conversation Piece London Pride 1941 A Room With a View This Year of Grace Mrs Worthington 1934 Poor Little Rich Girl On with the Dance The Stately Homes of England Operette In the society s second tier of favourites are The Party s Over Now Words and Music Dearest Love Operette Dear Little Cafe Bitter Sweet Parisian Pierrot London Calling Men About Town Tonight at 8 30 Twentieth Century Blues Cavalcade Uncle Harry Pacific 1860 Don t Let s Be Beastly to the Germans 1943 There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner Globe Review Dance Little Lady This Year of Grace Has Anybody Seen Our Ship Tonight at 8 30 I Went to a Marvellous Party Set to Music Nina Sigh No More A Bar on the Piccola Marina 1954 Why Must the Show Go On Together With Music Sail Away Ace of Clubs and Sail Away Zigeuner Bitter Sweet 75 Cinema EditAdaptations and original films Edit The Queen Was in the Parlour directed by Graham Cutts UK 1927 based on the play of the same name Easy Virtue directed by Alfred Hitchcock UK 1928 based on the play of the same name The Vortex directed by Adrian Brunel UK 1928 based on the play of the same name Private Lives directed by Sidney Franklin Metro Goldwyn Mayer 1931 based on the play of the same name Tonight Is Ours directed by Stuart Walker Paramount 1933 based on the play The Queen Was in the Parlour Cavalcade directed by Frank Lloyd 20th Century Fox 1933 based on the play of the same name Bitter Sweet directed by Herbert Wilcox UK 1933 based on the operetta of the same name Design for Living directed by Ernst Lubitsch Paramount 1933 based on the play of the same name Les amants terribles The Terrible Lovers directed by Marc Allegret France 1936 based on the play Private Lives Bitter Sweet directed by W S Van Dyke Metro Goldwyn Mayer 1940 based on the operetta of the same name In Which We Serve original film directed by Coward and David Lean British Lion 1942 Screenplay by Coward We Were Dancing directed by Robert Z Leonard Metro Goldwyn Mayer 1942 based on the plays We Were Dancing Ways and Means and Private Lives This Happy Breed directed by David Lean Universal UK 1944 based on the play of the same name Coward was also a producer Blithe Spirit directed by David Lean UK 1945 based on the play of the same name Coward was also a producer Brief Encounter directed by David Lean UK 1945 based on the play Still Life Coward was also a screenwriter and producer The Astonished Heart directed by Terence Fisher UK 1950 based on the play of the same name Coward was also a screenwriter Meet Me Tonight directed by Anthony Pelissier UK 1952 based on the plays Ways and Means Red Peppers and Fumed Oak Pretty Polly directed by Guy Green UK 1967 based on the short story Pretty Polly Barlow Brief Encounter directed by Alan Bridges UK 1974 based on the play Still Life Relative Values directed by Eric Styles UK 2000 based on the play of the same name Easy Virtue directed by Stephan Elliott UK 2008 based on the play of the same name 76 Actor Edit Hearts of the World 1918 uncredited The Scoundrel 1935 as Anthony Mallare Men Are Not Gods 1936 uncredited In Which We Serve 1942 as Captain E V Kinross also a screenwriter producer and co director Blithe Spirit 1945 uncredited narrator also producer Brief Encounter 1945 uncredited narrator also a screenwriter and co producer The Astonished Heart 1950 as Dr Christian Faber Blithe Spirit 1956 TV film as Charles Condomine Around the World in 80 Days 1956 as Roland Hesketh Baggott Our Man in Havana 1959 as Hawthorne Surprise Package 1960 as King Pavel II Paris When It Sizzles 1964 as Alexander Meyerheim Ninety Years On 1964 TV film as Narrator Host Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 as Horatio Wilson Androcles and the Lion 1967 TV film as Caesar Boom 1968 as The Witch of Capri The Italian Job 1969 as Mr BridgerNotes references and sources EditNotes Edit Co written with Esme Wynne under their joint pen name Esnomel 1 The title was changed to Ida Collaborates during the run 1 Co written with Wynne 2 a b c d e One of five plays written early in Coward s career but not produced until after his successes beginning with The Vortex and Hay Fever producers were willing to stage them 3 Revised in 1927 8 Originally called Nadya then Souvenir 10 Mander and Mitchenson describe the play as unperformed 12 but newspaper archives record occasional performances from 1934 onwards It is unclear if any of these were given by a professional company 13 Co written with Ronald Jeans 14 Mainly by Coward with some music by Philip Braham 20 Originally titled Ritz Bar 22 Tited Charles B Cochran s 1928 Revue at its try out in Manchester 26 Originally titled Sari Linden 27 It was first presented in a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1944 and was given other amateur productions but its first professional production was in 1992 30 A revised edition of Words and Music for Broadway 45 Originally titled Sweet Sorrow 47 Because of the outbreak of the Second World War the 1939 production was cancelled when Coward returned to acting in 1942 the play was finally produced 48 Based on Coward s 1939 short story What Mad Pursuit 53 Originally titled Island Fling for its world premiere in the US and later titled Home and Colonial 56 Originally titled Moxie 57 Based on Lady Windermere s Fan 59 Originally described as an operetta 60 A single rehearsed reading was given in June 1989 at The Mill Sonning 53 Based on The Sleeping Prince 65 Adapted by Coward from his 1951 short story of the same name 53 This was an anthology of Coward s words and music from the 1920s to the 1960s 67 A second Coward anthology 68 In Coward s day the play was thought to be a collaboration between Beaumont and John Fletcher 69 Coward who found the play boring was uncomplimentary about both playwrights 70 For two weeks to give the regular player of the part Cecil Parker a holiday during the long run 71 The regular player Cyril Ritchard was ill 72 Covering while the regular player Graham Payn was ill This was the last time Coward appeared onstage with Gertrude Lawrence 73 References Edit a b c Mander and Mitchenson p 25 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 26 Morley 1974 pp 111 The Rat Trap 77 Sirocco 106 The Queen Was in the Parlour and 92 Fallen Angels and Mander and Mitchenson p 81 Weatherwise Mander and Mitchenson p 28 I ll Leave It to You The Times 22 July 1920 p 10 and Mander and Mitchenson p 36 Mander and Mitchenson p 43 Daly s Theatre The Times 25 November 1927 p 14 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 52 Mander and Mitchenson p 62 Mander and Mitchenson p 65 Ervine St John At the Play The Observer 29 August 1926 p 9 and Mander and Mitchenson p 65 Mander and Mitchenson p 584 Mild Oats to Be Given Before Theatre Guild The Palm Beach Post 2 October 1934 p 6 Today at the Theaters The Ithaca Journal 11 April 1936 p 2 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 74 Mander and Mitchenson p 81 Globe Theatre The Times 22 April 1925 p 12 and Mander and Mitchenson p 83 Mander and Mitchenson p 92 Mander and Mitchenson p 103 Duke of York s Theatre The Times 10 June 1926 p 14 and Mander and Mitchenson p 114 Mander and Mitchenson p 128 On with the Dance The Times 1 May 1925 p 12 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 140 Mander and Mitchenson p 144 Criterion Theatre The Times 17 February 1927 p 12 and Mander and Mitchenson p 156 Duke of York s Theatre The Times 26 October 1927 p 12 and Mander and Mitchenson p 166 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 171 Mander and Mitchenson p 183 Bitter Sweet The Times 19 July 1929 p 12 Mander and Mitchenson p 208 Mander and Mitchenson p 219 Mander and Mitchenson p 228 Mr Coward s Revue The Times 17 September 1932 p 8 and Mander and Mitchenson p 240 Mander and Mitchenson p 249 Mander and Mitchenson p 260 Mander and Mitchenson p 271 a b c Theatres The Manchester Guardian 16 October 1935 p 11 and To night at 8 30 The Times 20 August 1935 p 10 Theatres The Manchester Guardian 19 October 1935 p 15 and Mander and Mitchenson p 297 Theatres The Manchester Guardian 19 October 1935 p 15 and Mander and Mitchenson p 300 Theatres The Manchester Guardian 19 October 1935 p 15 and Mander and Mitchenson p 303 Mander and Mitchenson p 306 Mander and Mitchenson p 308 Mander and Mitchenson p 311 Mander and Mitchenson p 313 Mander and Mitchenson p 326 Mander and Mitchenson p 245 Mander and Mitchenson p 339 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 345 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 357 Mander and Mitchenson p 366 Mander and Mitchenson p 378 Mander and Mitchenson p 384 Mander and Mitchenson p 395 a b c Mander and Mitchenson p 577 a b Plays Noel Coward Archive Trust Retrieved 20 March 2020 Mander and Mitchenson p 419 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 407 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 430 Mander and Mitchenson p 440 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 450 Mander and Mitchenson p 452 Mander and Mitchenson p 460 Mander and Mitchenson p 469 Mander and Mitchenson p 481 Mander and Mitchenson p 489 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 500 a b c Mander and Mitchenson p 513 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 530 a b Mander and Mitchenson p 534 Knight of the Burning Pestle The The Oxford Companion to English Literature Oxford University Press 2009 Retrieved 31 March 2020 subscription required Castle p 38 Lesley p 230 Mander and Mitchenson p 381 Morley p 260 Mander and Mitchenson Appendix 4 pp 590 593 Appendix 3 The Relative Popularity of Coward s Works Noel Coward Music Index accessed 29 November 2015 Contemporary Authors Online Thomson Gale 2004 accessed 30 December 2008 requires subscription and Noel Coward at the IMDB database accessed 12 March 2009 Sources Edit Castle Charles 1972 Noel London W H Allen ISBN 978 0 491 00534 0 Hoare Philip 1995 Noel Coward A Biography London Sinclair Stevenson ISBN 978 1 4081 0675 4 Lesley Cole 1976 The Life of Noel Coward London Cape ISBN 978 0 224 01288 1 Mander Raymond Mitchenson Joe Day Barry Day Morley Sheridan 2000 1957 Theatrical Companion to Coward second ed London Oberon ISBN 978 1 84002 054 0 Morley Sheridan 1974 1969 A Talent to Amuse London Penguin ISBN 978 0 14 003863 7 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Noel 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