Bugsy Malone

Play by Alan Parker
Words & Music by Paul Williams

Administered for rental and amateur stage rights by Boosey & Hawkes in the UK, Eire and other territories, excluding the USA and Canada.

Licensing performances

If you wish to apply to perform the musical, then please send an email to musicals@boosey.com stating the following information only:

1) Name of school/society

2) Where you are (city/town)

3) What you want to perform (Bugsy Malone)

4) When you want to perform (if exact dates are not yet known, then please provide the month)

5) If it is a public or private performance (a performance is deemed public if it is advertised locally, a private performance is one that is just for parents and staff and not advertised externally)

We will then send you an application form by email to complete, along with details of costs involved. Once the form is completed and returned by email, a licence will be emailed to you for signature. Once signed we will be able to send you the music at the date requested on your application form.

Details of hire requirements should be submitted on the application form. We can provide orchestral parts (details below), as well as piano vocal scores. Please note that you must use live musicians and the use of a backing track is strictly forbidden.

Libretti are not available for hire. These may be purchased online by clicking here.

Information

INSTRUMENTATION

Clarinet I and/or Flute *
Clarinet II and/or Alto Sax *
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Drums
Piano
Full Score

* The Clarinet I part is for one player doubling Flute. If no such player is available, the Flute and Clarinet parts can be played by separate instrumentalists, and separate parts can be supplied upon request.

* The same applies to the Clarinet II/Alto Sax parts.

THE STORY
1929, Gangster warfare in New York

Dandy Dan’s hoodlums terrorise the district, exterminating undesirables with their new weapon – splurge guns. His rival is Fat Sam Stacetto, who runs the Grand Slam Speakeasy, but Fat Sam’s gang still use old-fashioned pies. Fat Sam engages the help of Bugsy Malone, a smooth city slicker who hitherto has been more occupied in sweet-talking Blousey Brown, a would-be girl singer. With Bugsy’s help, Fat Sam escapes from a frame-up but he learns later that Dandy Dan’s mob have splurged nearly all his gang. They’ve also destroyed his sarsaparilla and grocery rackets – the whole empire’s gone”. There’s only one hope left. Fat Sam pays Bugsy 400 dollars in exchange for more help. Bugsy, who has promised to take Blousey to Hollywood, has to break his date with her. Is she mad! Meanwhile Bugsy and Leroy Smith, a guy with an awesome punch, witness a secret delivery of splurge guns at Dock 17. With a bunch of down-and-outs, they help themselves from the crates. Then the police arrive, let by Captain Smolsky and Lieutenant O’Dreary. Bugsy and the gang escape through a trapdoor.  Finally Dandy Dan prepares for a showdown at Fat Sam’s speakseasy. When his mob burst in, Bugsy and the guys let ‘em have it – the works. Splurge, custard pies, flour bombs… Out of the gooey pandemonium it emerges that Bugsy and Blousey have made it up. Peace has broken out at last.

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS (plus chorus)
Bugsy Malone (who also acts as occasional narrator)
Blousey Brown (his girl and would-be Hollywood singer)
Fat Sam (gangland boss and speakeasy owner)
Dandy Dan (Fat Sam’s rival)
Knuckles (Fat Sam’s right-hand man)
Fizzy (general factotum and singer)
Tallulah (speakeasy girl singer and Blousey’s rival)
Leroy Smith (heavyweight boxing hopeful)

PRINCIPAL MUSICAL NUMBERS
Bugsy Malone (Three girl singers)
Tomorrow (Fizzy)
I’m Feeling Fine (Blousey)
My Name is Tallulah (Tallulah)
Ordinary Fool (Blousey)
Fat Sam’s Grand Slam (Girls)
You Give A Little Love (Chorus)