PAUL WILLIAMS
BUGSY MALONE
(National Youth Music Theatre Soundtrack)
DIRECTORS: Jeremy James Taylor and Russell Labey.
1997

It starred Michael Sturges & Bobby Bethell as Bugsy, Leanne Connolly & Elizabeth Avis as Blousey Brown, Stuart Piper & Mark Boyle as Dandy Dan, Sheridan Smith as Talullah & Paul Lowe as Fat-Sam.

It was directed by Jeremy James Taylor and Russell Labey with choreography by Kay Shepard. Musical direction was by John Pearson, design by Gary Underwood, lighting design by Richard House and sound by Thomas Ashbee.

The show was produced by Edward Snape and sponsored by the Young Telegraph & Capital FM

One of the most interesting things about the stage show is that it contains material not originally in the movie, most notably the numbers That's Why They Call Me Dandy (Java 'PopUp Lyrics' here) and "Show Business" (Java 'PopUp Lyrics' here). I'll let Stuart Piper, who played Dandy Dan in the stage show, explain:

"My name is Stuart Piper, and I played Dandy Dan in the 1997/8 West End production of Bugsy Malone, which played at the Queens' Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. It was the first ever West-End production with an all-youth cast (as the previous Bugsy version had been with booth singers), and we released a cast album. He (Paul Williams) also gave us material that he wrote earlier, but which was never used for the film, and I was lucky enough to be the first person to have performed That's Why They Call Me Dandy (Java 'PopUp Lyrics' here) - on stage, and on CD."

(Amazon has this on sale here along with some sound bits including "That's Why They Call Me Dandy")

Stuart Piper is also the 'Webmaster' of the Music Stages Online dedicated to international musical theatre. Music Stages Online has a page dedicated to the stage show of "Bugsy Malone" here which has more information about the production and actors as well as a section on "What The Critics Said". To find out more about Stuart Piper himself visit his home page here