| Shinbone Alley | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Music | George Kleinsinger |
| Lyrics | Joe Darion |
| Book | Joe Darion Mel Brooks |
| Basis | Don Marquis's New York Tribune columns Archy and Mehitabel |
| Productions | 1957 Broadway 1960 US television 2005 Melbourne, Australia |
Shinbone Alley (sometimes performed as archy & mehitabel[1][2]) is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion, and music by George Kleinsinger. Based on the album Archy and Mehitabel: A Back-Alley Opera, which in turn was based on archy and mehitabel, a series of New York Tribune columns by Don Marquis (illustrated by Krazy Kat author George Herriman), it focuses on poetic cockroach archy (who wasn't strong enough to depress the typewriter's shift-key), alley cat mehitabel, and her relationships with theatrical cat tyrone t. tattersal and tomcat big bill, under the watchful eye of the newspaperman, the voice-over narrator and only human being in the show.[3]
- ^ "Entertainment News: archy & mehitabel (November 28–30, 2005)". Entertainmentdepot.com.au. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
- ^ "archy & mehitabel (November 28–30, 2005)". Magnormos.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
- ^ John (2 February 2013). "Photos From 'archy and mehitabel' (1954) | Don Marquis". Retrieved 2021-12-02.