Striking 12 is a musical based on a short story published in what year?
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Striking 12 Striking 12 is the music group GrooveLily's off-Broadway holiday musical, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl".
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The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" (Danish: "Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne" , meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media, including an animated short film, a television musical, and an animated virtual reality story called "Allumette".
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Allal "Allal" is a short story written by American writer, composer, and world traveler Paul Bowles. This story was first published in "Rolling Stone" on January 27, 1977, and since has been included in many compilation short story books. "Allal" is about an outcast boy and his fascination with a pet snake that eventually leads to his very unusual death. This short story contains many Gothic Fiction themes such as loneliness, human attraction to one's own atavistic natures and the uncanny.
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One Christmas "One Christmas" is an autobiographical short story by Truman Capote, portions of which were originally published in a 1982 issue of the "Ladies’ Home Journal" magazine. It was shortly thereafter published in 1983 as a book by Random House, Inc and was the final work published by Capote before his death in 1984. The story is an emotional childhood tale about the nature of deception and alcoholism. It is Capote’s last short story and a sequel to "The Thanksgiving Visitor".
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The Days of Perky Pat "The Days of Perky Pat" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in "Amazing" magazine. Elements of the story would be incorporated into Dick's 1965 novel, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".
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The Last Act "The Last Act" is a short story by Roald Dahl. Described by Dahl as an attempt to write about "murder by fucking," it was first published in the January 1966 issue of "Playboy", having been rejected by "The New Yorker" because of its disturbing content. It was later included in the collection "Switch Bitch", published in 1974 by Michael Joseph Ltd.
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A Girl's Story "A Girl's Story" is a short story within Toni Cade Bambara's short story collection, "The Seabirds are Still Alive". This collection was originally published in 1977 by Random House. Bambara writes about strong female girls in this particular collection because "in her vision, in her politics, little girls matter". The story centers on a young, African American girl named Rae Ann who is experiencing menstruation for the first time.
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Bâtard "Bâtard" is a short story by Jack London, first published in 1902 under the title "Diable — A Dog" in "The Cosmopolitan" before being renamed to "Bâtard" in 1904. The story follows Black Leclère and Bâtard, two "devils", one in a man and the other in a wolfdog. Their intense hatred of each other forms the plot as each wants to kill the other, despite having a master and pet relationship. At the end, Bâtard ends up killing his owner, but is later killed himself.
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I'm Crazy "I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945 issue of "Collier's" magazine. Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him."
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Marlowe (musical) Marlowe is a 1981 musical with a book by Leo Rost, lyrics by Rost and Jimmy Horowitz, and music by Horowitz. Despite a claim in the "Playbill" that "the story of this drama is essentially true and accurate," much of it is a fictionalized account of the life of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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The Princess and the Tin Box "The Princess and the Tin Box" is a short story by James Thurber in the form of a modern fable. It was first published in the September 29, 1945 edition of "The New Yorker" magazine and republished in 1948 in Thurber's "The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures". The story is widely used as a text in schools for teaching both writing skills and reading comprehension.
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The 13-Storey Treehouse The 13-Storey Treehouse is a 2011 book written by author Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton, and a stage play based on the book. The story follows Andy and Terry, who are living in a 13-story treehouse, struggling to finish their book on time among many distractions, and their friend Jill, who lives in a house full of animals and often visits them. According to the book, the 13-story treehouse has "a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a secret underground laboratory, a vegetable vaporizer, and a marshmallow machine that shoots marshmallows into your mouths when it sees that you are hungry".
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The Sea Raiders "The Sea Raiders" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896 in "The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement". It was included in "The Plattner Story and Others", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was included in "The Country of the Blind and Other Stories", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911.
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Thubway Tham's Chrithtmath "Thubway Tham's Chrithtmath" is a short story written by Johnston McCulley. It first appeared in "Detective Story Magazine" on December 24, 1921.
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Mozart and Salieri (play) Mozart and Salieri (Russian: Моцарт и Сальери , "Mozart i Salieri") is a poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin. "Mozart and Salieri" was written in 1830 as one of his four short plays known as "The Little Tragedies", and was published in 1832. Based on one of the numerous rumours caused by the early death of Mozart, it was the only one of Pushkin's plays that was staged during his lifetime.
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The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in the February 1932 issue of the "Ladies' Home Journal".
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The Man Without a Country "The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in "The Atlantic" in December 1863. It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without so much as a word of news about the United States. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War and was meant to promote the Union cause.
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Under the Weather (short story) "Under the Weather" is a short story by Stephen King, originally published in the Paperback edition of "Full Dark, No Stars".
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To Whom This May Come To Whom This May Come is a short story by American author Edward Bellamy. The story was first published in February 1889 in "Harper's New Monthly Magazine."
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Twelve Red Herrings Twelve Red Herrings (or 12 Red Herrings) is a 1994 short story collection by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer. Archer challenges his readers to find "twelve red herrings", one in each story. The book reached #3 in the Canadian best-sellers (fiction) list. J. K. Sweeney from "Magill Book Reviews" (01/01/1995) reviews the stories as "An attempt, it must be said, which is of such a nature that quite often the author succeeds in the effort."
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The Muse’s Tragedy "The Muse’s Tragedy" is a fictional short-story written by Edith Wharton. Published in 1899 by Charles Scribner’s Sons (25th magazine), The Muse’s Tragedy was then printed in June 1899, as part of the collection of short fiction "The Greater Inclination".
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The Aurelian "The Aurelian" is a short story first written in Russian as "Pil'gram" by Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin in 1930. After translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov it was published in English in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1941. "The Aurelian" is included in Nine Stories and Nabokov's Dozen.