Photo courtesy Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse (Book and Lyrics) is a writer-composer-lyricist who has written more than forty musical shows and films. Over the years he has had the good fortune to enjoy fruitful collaborations with a wonderful array of musical talents, including Anthony Newley, Henry Mancini, John Williams, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Jule Styne, Quincy Jones, Andre Previn, Frank Wildhorn and Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (whose "Nutcracker Suite" he adapted into a song score). His stage musicals include Stop The World - I Want To Get Off, The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd, Pickwick, Harvey, and Sherlock Holmes. He has written songs and/or screenplays for such films as Superman, Santa Claus - The Movie, Home Alone (I & II), Hook, Tom & Jerry - The Movie, and various Pink Panthers. Projects that have been seen on both stage and screen include Doctor Dolittle, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Scrooge, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and Victor/Victoria. He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys, and has won two Oscars, a Grammy and eight Ivor Novello Awards, the premiere British Music Award. In 1989 he received the Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British songwriting, and was inducted into the American Songwriters' Hall of Fame - only the fourth Englishman to be so honoured.