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  2. Treasure Island (play) - Wikipedia

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    Treasure Island is a play in four acts and ten scenes by Jules Eckert Goodman that is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. [1] It was first published in 1915 by Samuel French, Inc. , [ 2 ] and was later included in the children's play anthology Another Treasury of Plays for Children (1926, Little, Brown and Company ...

  3. List of entertainers who died during a performance - Wikipedia

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    The band reportedly continued playing music until the sinking ship's last moments in an effort to calm the passengers. 1914: Walter Dalgleish, an Australian actor, collapsed and died on stage during an unnamed performance in the King's Theatre in Fremantle, Western Australia.

  4. Treasure Island - Wikipedia

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    Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure and historical novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It was published in 1883, and tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold" set in the 1700s.

  5. Pieces of Eight (1985 musical) - Wikipedia

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    It is based on the classic 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The central characters are Jim Hawkins, a young man in possession of a treasure map, and the mutinous pirate Long John Silver, who serves as a mentor and father-figure to the boy. The world premiere opened on November 27, 1985 [1] at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.

  6. Bobby Driscoll - Wikipedia

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    Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – March 30, 1968) was an American actor who performed on film and television from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period: Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950), as well as RKO's The Window (1949).

  7. Dead Man's Chest - Wikipedia

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    Many authors have written prequels and sequels to Treasure Island. One such example is R. F. Delderfield's The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1956), in which Ben tells Jim Hawkins that the song is a reference to "an island of the Leewards" nicknamed "Dead Man's Chest" which "was little more than a long, high rock, shaped like a coffin." In Delderfield ...

  8. Theodore Bikel - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Meir Bikel (/ b ɪ ˈ k ɛ l / bih-KEL; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist.. He made his stage debut in Tevye the Milkman in Mandatory Palestine, when he lived as a teenager.

  9. Billy Bones - Wikipedia

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    Billy Bones is a fictional character appearing in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Among other things, he is notable for singing the " Dead Man's Chest " sea song.