This series contains files regarding productions and events that did not happen. The files listed contain materials indicating a serious level of interest in getting the production or event onstage, for example a signed contract.
The collection gift had contained a number of unsolicited scripts. As these files contained no evidence that the King’s Head intended to develop the proposal, these have been disposed of. For reference a list of the files disposed of is given below:
- - AC/DC by Heathcote Williams
- - Ace of Clubs - Alfie by Bill Naughton; Book and lyrics by Eden Phillips, Music by John Cameron
- - All on Her Own by Terence Rattigan
- - Am I Living in a Box , a Cardboard Box? By Michael Ellis
- - Amongst Barbarians by Michael Wall
- - Anna Karenina by Tolstoy:Book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg, Music by Dan Levine
- - Apocalypse II by Steve Lane
- - Ariel: Poems by Sylvia Plath
- - The Asian Monologue by Krishen Copengara
- - The Astonished Heart by Noel Coward
- - Baby Blue by Mary Stewart-David
- - Beach Radio;Book and Lyrics by Drey Shepperd, Music by Gerard Kenny
- - Bedside Manners by Derek Benfield
- - Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: Text and Format by Gene Lerner, Music Weill, Lyrics by various writers
- - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart; Book by John Kane
- - Bill and Mary by Billie Brown
- - Bittersuite: Music by Elliot Weiss, Lyrics by Michael Champagne
- - Blasted, Shafted and Totally Buggered: Author unknown
- - Blood Money by the Heather Brothers
- - The Blue Angel by Andrew Sinclair adapted from the screen play by Josef von Sternberg
- - Bob’s Your Uncle by Austin Melford, Lyrics by Frank Eyton, Music by Noel Gay
- - The Bomb Man by D J Rapson
- - Boy Meets Boy by Bill Solly and Donald Ward, Music and Lyrics by Bill Solly
- - Brothers by George Sibbald
- - Buddy’s Song by Nigel Hinton
- - Bumpy Ride by Nick Bromley and Jim Osborne
- - Bye Bye Billie Bluse by Anthony Khaseria
- - Cabaret :Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, based on the play by John van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
- - Call Me Don’t by Jonathan Myerson and Terry Theriot
- - Carmen Negra; Book and Lyrics by Stewart Trotter, Score by Callum McLeod based on Bizet’s Carmen
- - Charlie’s Angel by Jonathan Markwood, based on an idea devised by Helen Goldwyn and Jonathan Markwood
- - Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
- - Chu Chin Chow by Oscar Asche, Music by Frederic Norton
- - Codename Aquarius :Author unknown
- - Cold Sweat by Neal Bell
- - A Community of Two by Jerome Chodorov
- - Cuteye by Steven K Wilson
- - Darling You Were Marvellous by Steven Berkoff
- - Dauntless Dick Deadeye or Oh, Euphemism! Oh, D-mn! A revised version of H M S Pinafore; Music Arthur Sullivan, Libretto W S Gilbert, revised Libretto by Herbert Appleman
- - Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber
- - Dear Diary by Gary Jones
- - Dear Father Christmas by Giles Andreae, Music by Simon Bass
- - The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan
- - Deirdre of the Sorrows by J M Synge
- - The Disintegration of Della Longstreet by Norman Beim
- - Doc Faust! by Philip Goulding and Kate Edgar
- - Don Juan translated by Simon Nye
- - Dover Beach / Shootout (Double Exposure) by Carl Morse
- - Dragula by Dominic Symonds
- - Dream makers; Book and Lyrics by Warner Brown, Music by Michael Reed
- - (The Play of) Ebenezer Le Page by Anthony Wilkinson from the Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G B Edwards
- - The Edible Woman by Dave Carley based on The Edible Woman by Margaret Attwood
- - Ego by Carl Djerassi - Elergy for a Lady by Arthur Miller
- - Enchanted; Words and Music by Ian McFarlane
- - Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton
- - Escape from Pterodactyl Island ; Book and Lyrics by Peter Morris, Music by Michael Jeffrey ,conceived by Phillip George and Peter Morris
- - Excess Baggage by the Heather Brothers
- - Fast Friends by R D Weightman
- - Fauntleroy by Steven Markwick based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- - Fighting the Gorilla by Charles Higham
- - The Flamekeeper Author unknown
- - Forget-Me-Not Lane by Peter Nichols
- - The Gallant John-Joe by Tom Mac Intyre
- - Gamebox ; Book and Lyrics by Ralph Syd, Music by Cliff Masterson
- - Game On by Bernadette Andrews
- - Gangster Apparel by Richard Vetere
- - The Gardens Of Frau Hess by Milton Frederick Marcus
- - Gee, Mr Porter; Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Book by Warner Brown
- - Georgia by Jill Shearer (inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe)
- - Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein by Marty Martin
- - A Girl Called Jo;Music by John Pritchett, Book and Lyrics by Peter Myers, Alec Grahame and David Climie based on Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa M Alcott
- - Going Dark by Andrew Livingston and Guy Hassan
- - Going Once by Leon Parris
- - The Golly by Cheryl Moskowitz
- - Grace Among the Christians by Luke Devenish
- - The Great Hunger by Tom MacIntyre
- - Gutter Press by James Richards and Fergal O’Mahony
- - Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- - Hard Times by Christopher Tookey and Hugh Thomas from Charles Dickens
- - Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins
- - Hell Hath Fury by Gary Jones
- - Hello Dolly; Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
- - Hercules; Music by Will Barnett, Book and Lyrics by Will Barnett and Adam James
- - Hometown Honey by Herbert Appleman adapted from Rambling Rose by Clader Willingham
- - How’s Bernard? by James Scott
- - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser based on How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead
- - I Can’t Remember Anything by Arthur Miller
- - I Love You Madam President; Music and Lyrics by Phyllis Lynd, Book by Martha Kearns and Phyllis Lynd, additional dialogue by Scott Tobin and Soir Aniroc
- - Imagine by Terrylene Theriot
- - In the Town Where I was Born by David Balfe
- - Jihad:The Musical (Author unknown)
- - Joe Orton’s Last Laugh by Robert Eddison and Robert Carter
- - Kennedy The Thousand Days by John Timperley and Richard Storry
- - Killing Time by Christopher Littlewood
- - Kingdom Come by Roy Kendall
- - Kingdom of Earth by Tennessee Williams
- - The Lab (Or How the Curies might have Discovered Radium) a translation by Michael Johnson and Laurie Maguire of Les Palmes de M. Schutz by Jean-Noel Fenwick
- - Lady be Good, Book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Music by George Gershwin
- - Lady Frederick by Somerset Maugham
- - Lager by Owen Christopher Keenan and Michael J Williams
- - Les Enfants du Paradis: Book and Lyrics by Angela Richards, Music by Michael Reed (musical version of the film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert)
- - A Lesson to Forgive by Tom Minter
- - Like Love; Book/Lyrics by Barry Jay Kaplan, Music by Lewis Flinn
- - Little Lord by Steven Markwick based on Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- - Love A La Russe by Shirley Cooklin based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant
- - Love in a Cardboard Box by Gillian Plowman
- - Love in a Cold Climate by Eden Phillips and Julian Slade adapted by them from the novel by Nancy Mitford
- - Love Letter by A R Gurney
- - Mame; Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
- - Manhattan Cocktail by John Guerrasio
- - Mario Fratti; 14 plays
- - Messiah Comes to Town by Patrick Appleford
- - Mother’s Little Murderer by Lance Peters
- - Muscles; Book and Lyrics by Alec Reid, Music by John Telfer
- - My Sister Eileen by Ruth McKenney
- - Nessie the Musical by Alexander S Bermange
- - Never the Same Rhyme Twice by Rooster Mitchell
- - New York Stand Up Comedy (Manhattan’s top comedy performers)
- - Nobody likes Stephen Sondheim West of Tenth Avenue by George Sibbald
- - No Network by Alex Duval Smith
- - No One’s Died Laughing by Pieter-Dirk Uys
- - North Atlantic; Book and Lyrics by Michael Colby, Music and Lyrics by James Fradrich
- - Nosey Parker by Leslie Frewin
- - Nude with Violin by Noel Coward
- - Oedipus- Ring Your Mother; Book and Lyrics by Bruce Montague, Music by Kenny Clayton
- - O.Henry’s Lovers: Book and Lyrics by Joe Dipietro, Music by Michael Valenti, (adapted from three short stories by O. Henry)
- - The Old Curiosity Shop by Gawen Robinson and Stephen Robinson based on the book by Charles Dickens
- - Treble Chance by Gary Jones
- - One Glass Wall by Danusia Iwaszko
- - On the Avenue; Words and Music by Irving Berlin
- - Orford St. John; seven plays and monologues
- - Orlandus by Dean Strober inspired by the life of Orlandus Wilson and the Golden Gate Quintet
- - Oscar by Peter G Williams based on events in the life of Oscar Wilde
- - Overruled (Author unknown)
- - Panama Hattie; Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Book by Herbert Fields and B G Desylva
- - Pandemonium; Book and Lyrics by Jennifer Toksvig, Music by David Perkins
- - Patio by Jack Heifner
- - Peppermint Icecream by David Laydon
- - Picnic on Vesuvius by Michael Church and Betty Tadman
- - Pippen; Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Original Book by Roger O Hirson, New Book by Paul Alexander
- - Prick by Carl Djerassi
- - Prince and Pauper (author unknown)
- - The Private Ear by Peter Shaffer
- - Promises, Promises; Book by Neil Simon, Music by Burt Bacharach, Lyrics by Hal David based on the screenplay The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I A L Diamond
- - Pure Farce; two plays by Georges Feydeau (A Night to Remember and The Purging) adapted by Peter Barne
- - Ragtime and Again with Max Morath by Max Morath
- - Rand’s McVets (author unknown)
- - The Relationship by Dominic King
- - The Resurrection of Grudge by Tony McNamara
- - Retardo by N Brown
- - Richard’s Guests by Kaj Himmulstrup
- - Ripping Yarns! By Michael Palin and Terry Jones, Stage Adaptation by Michael Gyngell
- - Salsa Saved the Girls by Rose Martula
- - Same Time Next Year by Bernard Slade
- - Sammy by Femi Elufowoju Jr (based on Sammy Davis Jr)
- - The Scapegoat by John Lucarotti
- - The Secret Life, Book and Lyrics by Warner Brown
- - Seduced by Michael Kingsbury
- - Shake Hands with the Devil by Bryan MacDonald based on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure at Sir Arthur Sullivan’s by Tim Heath after Arthur Conan Doyle
- - Side Show, Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell, Music by Henry Kreiger
- - Sin City Fables: an Evening of Stories and Songs, Stories by Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron, Songs by Fran Landesman (Lyrics) and Simon Wallace (Music) based on the book Sin City Fables by Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron
- - Skylight by David Hare
- - Sleaze by John Kane
- - Smiling Through on the Home Front, Book by Keith Myers, Music by Nick Graham
- - The Snark and How to Hunt it, Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh and Frank Lazarus, Music by Frank Lazarus, based on The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
- - Spangled Glory Boys by Edith Groz
- - Square in the Pocket by Roger Thomas, based on the diaries of Greg Mitchell
- - Stage Door by George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber
- - The Suitcase by Claire Greenwood
- - Swansong by Patrick Page
- - A Tale of Two Cities, book by Joseph P McDonald, Music and Lyrics by Robert Hoover, adapted from Charles Dickens
- - A Terrible Saint by Herbert Appleman, suggested by events in the life of Count Lev Tolstoy
- - The Thimbleful (or Oh, My Dear Mags!) by Angela Cheyne
- - 1348 by Tom Dulack
- - Thom and Sally, Book, Music and Lyrics by Gil Perlroth
- - Three Castles by Roy Kendall
- - Three Gulls in Uncle’s Orchard by Anthony Wilkinson
- - The Time Machine, Adaptations and Lyrics by R Wright Campbell, Music by Brian Bennett, adapted from H G Wells
- - To Have and to Hold Onto by Fiona Mountford
- - Torchbearers by Lin Marsh and Wendy Cook
- - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and George Abbott, Music by Arthur Schwartz, Lyrics by Doris Fields, based on the novel by Betty Smith
- - Trivial Pursuits: The Special Re-mix of the Missing Edition by Michael Ellis
- - Tropical Tree by Yukio Mishima, Translated by Eiji Mihara
- - Tune the Grand Up: The Showtunes of Jerry Herman, Conceived by Paul Gilger
- - Ulysses; A Musical Odyssey by Laurence Roman
- - The Unvarnished Truth by Royce Ryton
- - Up is There, Book by Neil Goldman, David Owen-Bell and Rowena Goldman, Music and Lyrics by Neil Goldman and Rowena Goldman
- - Valium Fasten Your Seatbelts; Music by Adrian Cross, Book and Lyrics by Simon Haynes, additional Lyrics Adrian Cross
- - The Very Thought of You by Tony Staveacre (songs and souvenirs of Al Bowlly)
- - The Water Babies; Words and Music by Vivian Ellis adapted from Charles Kingsley
- - Waving Through the Window by Roger Thomas
- - The Wedding Party by Judith Herzberg
- - What are Friends For? By Leonard Gross
- - What Makes Sammy Run?; Book by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg, Music and Lyrics by Ervin Drake
- - The White Mountain; Book and Lyrics by Jonathan Neale, music by Michael Szpakowski
- - Whom do I Have the Honour of Addressing? By Peter Shaffer
- - Widows Peak by Stewart Permutt
- - The Winds of Fashioning Time by Danny Eaton
- - Wings of Desire conceived by Nicky Hinkley
- - Without Apologies by Thom Thomas
- - The Wizard of Oz; Words by E Y Harburg, Music by Harold Arlen
- - When Movies were Movies by Keith Myers, Musical arrangements by Dean Austin
- - Working the Illusion by Steve Newcombe
- - Woza Albert! By Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon
- - The Wright Decision by Harry Atkinson
- - Yee-Haw The Cowboy Cavalcade by Shrubshall and Free