Whistle Down the Wind is a musical based on the 1961 film

Film

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 Whistle Down the Wind

Whistle Down the Wind (film)

Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British film, directed by Bryan Forbes, screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, from the novel by Mary Hayley Bell.-Plot:...

with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

 and lyrics by Jim Steinman

Jim Steinman

James Richard "Jim" Steinman is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer...

, known for his work with Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor...

 and Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...

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Whistle Down the Wind premiered at the National Theatre

National Theatre (Washington, D.C.)

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 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 on 12 December 1996, starring Davis Gaines

Davis Gaines

Davis Gaines is a stage actor.He has performed as the Phantom in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera more than 2000 times, on Broadway, in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco. In the latter location, he won the Bay Area Critics' Award for Best Actor. He performed in the roll for...

 as The Man and Irene Molloy

Irene Molloy

Irene Molloy is an American actress, singer and songwriter. A 1996 graduate of Archbishop Wood Catholic High School in Warminster, Pennsylvania, she has starred in Broadway musicals and dramas, television series and appeared in one movie.She starred in the TV series Andy Richter Controls the...

 as Swallow. It drew mostly negative reviews, and the Broadway

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 opening that had been scheduled for April 17, 1997, was subsequently cancelled.