Bill Francoeur


Bill Francoeur was a musical theatre composer and actor, who produced over 75 musicals for the amateur theatre market in a career spanning over 25 years.
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. His work includes the music and lyrics for the musical The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, 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. In 2002, his children's musical, Oz!, was produced Off-Broadway.
Francoeur began to collaborate with playwright Tim Kelly in the mid-1980s, with whom he created Oz! and numerous other works.
Bill Francoeur died February 2, 2015, in Colorado. He had four children.

Musicals

  • Babes in Toyland
  • Bah, Humbug!
  • The Big Bad Musical
  • Blue Suede Paws
  • Cactus Pass Jamboree
  • Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates
  • Charleston!
  • Cinderella's Glass Slipper
  • Coney Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Disco Knights
  • Don't Say No to the U.S.O.!
  • Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood
  • Drabble
  • Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
  • The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
  • Everything's Groovy!
  • Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
  • Flapper!
  • Flower Power!
  • Friday Knight Fever
  • Fussin' an' a-Feudin'
  • Going... Going... Gone With the Breeze
  • Gone With the Breeze
  • The Great Ghost Chase
  • Groovy!
  • Guess What I Did Last Summer
  • Hankerin' Hillbillies
  • The Headless Horseman
  • Hee Haw Hayride
  • The Internal Teen Machine
  • Is There a Doctor in the House?
  • Jack and the Giant
  • Jitterbug Juliet
  • Kilroy Was Here
  • Kokonut Island
  • Kokonut Kapers
  • Krazy Kamp — The Musical
  • Lady Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Little Luncheonette of Terror
  • A Little Princess — The Musical
  • Lucky, Lucky Hudson and the 12th Street Gang
  • Magnolia
  • Murder at Crooked House
  • The Nifty Fifties
  • No Strings Attached
  • Nutcracker
  • Oh, Horrors! It's Murder!
  • Oz!
  • Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue and the Wing-Dang-Doo!
  • Pied Piper - The Musical
  • A Pirate's Life For Me
  • Rock Around the Block
  • Romeo and Harriet
  • Royal Bachelor
  • The Secret Garden
  • Shake With a Zombie
  • Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Stories of Scheherazade
  • The Story of Hansel and Gretel
  • The Story of Velveteen Rabbit
  • Sunset Trail
  • Surf's Up!
  • Tale of Beauty and the Beast
  • There's a Monster in My Closet!
  • Through the Looking Glass
  • Time and Time Again
  • 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
  • Wonderland!
  • Wrangler Ranch
  • The Yankee Doodle Song and Dance Man
  • You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf