High Spirits (musical)

High Spirits
Original Cast Recording
Music	Hugh Martin Timothy Gray
Lyrics	Hugh Martin Timothy Gray
Book	Hugh Martin Timothy Gray
Basis	Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Productions	1964 Broadway 1964 West End

High Spirits is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, about a man coping with the ghost of his dead wife.

Martin and Gray adhered closely to Coward's original text, while expanding the medium's character to the star role, initially calling the show Faster Than Sound. The playwright was delighted with their adaptation and agreed to direct it himself.