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Five Guys Named Moe | |
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Music | Louis Jordan |
Lyrics | Louis Jordan |
Book | Clarke Peters |
Productions | 1990 West End 1992 Broadway 2002 Chicago Drury Lane South 2010 Edinburgh Festival 2014–15 Arena Stage and Cleveland Play House 2017 Off-West End |
Awards | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment |
Five Guys Named Moe is a musical with a book by Clarke Peters and lyrics and music by Louis Jordan and others. The musical is based on an earlier musical short of the same name by Louis Jordan from 1943.[1] It had its UK debut at the Cottesloe Theatre at the National Theatre[2][3] followed by a short run at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, before moving to the West End for over four years in, and finally premiering on Broadway in 1992. It was revived in 2010 at Edinburgh Festival, starring Peters himself, and returned later in 2010 to the theatre in which it originally premiered. The musical won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.