Bill Francoeur

Bill Francoeur (November 18, 1948 – February 2, 2015) was a musical theatre composer and actor, who produced over 75 musicals for the amateur theatre market in a career spanning over 25 years.[1]

Bill Francoeur
Born	William Francis Francoeur November 18, 1948 Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	February 2, 2015 (aged 66) Lone Tree, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation	Musician
Spouse(s)	1
Children	4

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

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 longtime 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!,[4] was produced Off-Broadway.[5]

Francoeur began to collaborate with playwright Tim Kelly in the mid-1980s, with whom he created Oz! and numerous other works.[6]

Bill Francoeur died February 2, 2015 in Colorado. He had four children.[2]

Musicals

Babes in Toyland[7] (with Tim Kelly) Bah, Humbug![8] The Big Bad Musical[9] Blue Suede Paws[10] (with Kelly) Cactus Pass Jamboree[11] Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates[12] (also called The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree) Charleston![13] (with Kelly) Cinderella's Glass Slipper[14] Coney Island of Dr. Moreau[15] (with Kelly) Disco Knights[16] Don't Say No to the U.S.O.![17] (with Kelly) Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood[18] Drabble (1985) Enchanted Sleeping Beauty[19] The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast[20] Everything's Groovy![21] (with Kelly) Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! Flapper![22] (with Kelly) Flower Power![23] Friday Knight Fever Fussin' an' a-Feudin' Going... Going... Gone With the Breeze Gone With the Breeze[24] (with Kelly) The Great Ghost Chase Groovy! Guess What I Did Last Summer Hankerin' Hillbillies The Headless Horseman Hee Haw Hayride (1993)[25] (with Kelly)

The Internal Teen Machine Is There a Doctor in the House?[26] (with Kelly) Jack and the Giant Jitterbug Juliet[27] Kilroy Was Here (1995) Kokonut Island (with Kelly) Kokonut Kapers[28] Krazy Kamp — The Musical Lady Pirates of the Caribbean[29] Little Luncheonette of Terror (1988)[30] (with Kelly) A Little Princess — The Musical (1996) Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang[31] (with Kelly) Magnolia[32] Murder at Crooked House[33] The Nifty Fifties (with Kelly) No Strings Attached Nutcracker Oh, Horrors! It's Murder! Oz! (1995)[34][35] (with Kelly) Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo![36] 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[37] (with Kelly) The Stories of Scheherazade The Story of Hansel and Gretel The Story of Velveteen Rabbit Sunset Trail Surf's Up![38] Tale of Beauty and the Beast There's a Monster in My Closet! Through the Looking Glass Time and Time Again (1987)[39] (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 Wipeout! The Wishing Tree (1988) Wonderland! Wrangler Ranch The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man[40] You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf[41] (with Kelly)

References

1. MTI profile
2. Biography of Francoeur
3. Information about Western Star
4. Oz!, from Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
5. Pioneer Drama Service profile of Francoeur
6. Information about the Kelly-Francoeur collaboration
7. Babes in Toyland
8. Bah, Humbug!
9. The Big Bad Musical
10. Blue Suede Paws!
11. Cactus Pass Jamboree
12. Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates
13. Charleston!
14. Cinderella's Glass Slipper
15. Coney Island of Dr. Moreau
16. Disco Knights
17. Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!
18. Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood
19. Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
20. Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
21. Everything's Groovy!
22. Flapper!
23. "Flower Power!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
24. Information about Gone With the Breeze
25. "Information about Hee Haw Hayride". Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
26. "Information about Is There a Doctor in the House?". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
27. "Information about Jitterbug Juliet". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
28. Information about Kokonut Kapers
29. "Information about Lady Pirates of the Caribbean". Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
30. "Information about Little Luncheonette of Terror". Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
31. "Information about Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang". Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
32. "Information about Magnolia". Archived from the original on December 12, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
33. "Information about Murder at Crooked House". Archived from the original on December 21, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
34. Catalog description for Oz!
35. "Information about Oz!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
36. "Information about Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
37. "Information about Snow White" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
38. "Information about Surf's Up!". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
39. Information about Time and Time Again
40. "Information about The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man". Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2008.
41. Information about You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf

External links

• Doddllee
• List of Francoeur works