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Lionel Bart was an English composer, lyricist, and writer of musicals. He is best known for writing the musical Oliver!, which was adapted into a film in 1968. He was born in Stepney, London, and began his career as a songwriter for pop singers in the 1950s. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Living Doll" for Cliff Richard in 1959.
Bart wrote the musicals Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be (1959) and Lock Up Your Daughters (1960). He wrote the lyrics and music for Oliver! (1960), which was adapted into a film in 1968. He also wrote the musicals Maggie May (1964) and Blitz! (1962).
Bart was awarded an OBE in 1968 and a CBE in 2000. He died in 1999 at the age of 68.
| Popular As |
Lionel Begleiter |
| Occupation |
soundtrack,music_department,writer |
| Age |
69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Born |
1 August 1930 |
| Birthday |
1 August |
| Birthplace |
Stepney, London, England, UK |
| Date of death |
3 April, 1999 |
| Died Place |
Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom |
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His musical, "Oliver!" at the Drury Lane Productions in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Large Musical Production.
His musical, "Oliver!," at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Musical Production.
His musical version, "Oliver!" was nominated for a 1973 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Play Production at the Candelight Dinner Playhouse in Chicago, Illinois.
Bart was just 30 and earning £16 a minute! To finance his next musical "Twang!!" (based on the Robin Hood story) he signed away all rights to Oliver! The new show flopped badly and Bart estimated he lost about one million pounds in that and in the lost rights to Oliver! He filed for bankruptcy in 1972 with debts of £73,000.
Won Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Composer and Lyricist for "Oliver!," a show for which he also received two other Tony nominations: as Best Author (Musical) and as author of book, music and lyrics as part of a Best Musical nomination.
In June 1960 he opened "Oliver!" which had been turned down by a dozen promoters and had to be financed by Bart himself. An immediate hit it received 16 curtain calls on the opening night and had advanced sales of 30,000 in the first week. Oliver! was followed by other fairly successful shows such as Blitz and Maggie May.
1 for 6 weeks in 1959) brought Lionel his first taste of success. His first musical success was with "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be".
By the end of 1959 both "Fings" and "Lock Up Your Daughters" were running successfully in London's West End.
The son of a Jewish Tailor in London's working class East End young Lionel had no formal musical education and never learned musical notation but his music teacher at school declared him to be a genius. He gained a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art at age 16 and started work as a set painter in the theatre. When he saw a notice asking for song writers it was to change his life. His new name was inspired on a bus journey past St. Bartholomew's Hospital (affectionately known as Barts). He wrote his first musical in 1958, Wally Pone of Soho. It was not a success. However, the songs he wrote for the early British rock'n'rollers Tommy Steele (Rock With the Caveman and Little White Bull) and Cliff Richard (Living Doll - at No.
