Artist: Humble Boy
Genre: Musical Play
Background: Humble Boy is a play by noted playwright Terry Johnson. Johnson was the stage adapter/director of The Graduate. He has written and directed the plays Dead Funny and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick. Other plays include Hysteria, Imagine Drowning, Cries from the Mammal House, Unsuitable for Adults and Insignificance. His West End directing credits include The Memory of Water, Elton John's Glasses, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the world premiere of Philip Ridley's Sparkleshark.
The play interweaves three stories that all involve the legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, who had an affinity for blonds. The 1999 plot line follows a lecturer and his student uncovering lost Hitchcock footage from an unknown 1919 film in a Greek villa, the 1959 story finds Hitchcock himself as a character, working with Janet Leigh's body double on the movie "Psycho."
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