Shows · Pickwick
Pickwick
Opened 1965
56 performances
Musical, Revolution
Based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, the genial and naive Samuel Pickwick leads his fellow members of the Pickwick Club on a series of comic adventures through the English countryside. Along the way, Pickwick faces a breach-of-promise lawsuit from his scheming landlady Mrs. Bardell, endures a stint in debtor's prison, and encounters a colorful parade of Dickensian characters.
"DAVID MERRICK in association with BERNARD DELFONT presents THE NEW MUSICAL comepY PICKWIC Based on Dickens’ posthumous p": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Cyril Ornadel
- Lyrics
- Leslie Bricusse
- Book
- Wolf Mankowitz
Productions2 on Broadway
Recordings 2 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
Pickwick is a musical with a book by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Cyril Ornadel, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, it is set in and around London and Rochester in 1828. Produced by Bernard Delfont, Pickwick premiered in the West End in 1963, with Harry Secombe in the lead role and choreography by Gillian Lynne.
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