Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Authors

Bill Francoeur

Bill Francoeur

Bill Francoeur has been composing for the stage for well over twenty-five years.  As a result, professional and amateur theater groups alike perform Mr. Francoeurs musicals on stages all over the world.  He is co-composer/lyricist for the acclaimed musical, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, co-written with long time collaborator, Scott DeTurk, with book by James Mellon (Dorian, Unfinished Song).  His efforts on that production garnished him nominations for both the L.A Stage Alliance Ovation Award and the North Hollywood Robby Award.  In addition, Backstage West presented him with The Garland Award for best music and lyrics in a musical.  His collaborative efforts with Mr. DeTurk also produced the musical, Western Star, with book by Dale Wasserman (Man of La Mancha, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest), for which he won Californias prestigious Elly Award for Best Original Work.

Mr. Francoeur has over seventy-five musicals published for the amateur theater market and is considered to be that markets most published composer.  His childrens musical OZ! had a successful run Off-Broadway in 2002.

Mr. Francoeur has also worked professionally as an educator, actor and musician and, as such, has taught and/or performed throughout the United States, Canada and the Orient.

Titles by Bill Francoeur:

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
The Elves and the Shoemaker — The Musical
The Emperor's New Clothes — The Musical
Enchanted Sleeping Beauty
The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast
The Ever After — A Musical
Everything's Groovy!
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
Flapper!
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
Hot Rod
The Internal Teen Machine
Jack and the Giant
Kilroy Was Here
Kokonut Island
Kokonut Kapers
Krazy Kamp — The Musical
The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree
Little Luncheonette of Terror
A Little Princess — The Musical
The Magical Land of Oz
The Nifty Fifties
Night at the Wax Museum — The Musical
No Strings Attached
Nonsense in the North Woods
Nutcracker
Oh, Horrors!  It's Murder!
Once Upon a Leprechaun
Oz!
Pied Piper - The Musical
The Pinocchio Show
A Pirate's Life For Me
Rock Around the Block
The Rockin' Tale of Snow White
Romeo and Harriet
Royal Bachelor
The Secret Garden (musical)
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
Tale of Beauty and the Beast
The Taming of Katy Lou
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
You Ain't Nothin' But A Werewolf