The Boy (musical)

The Boy
Music	Lionel Monckton Howard Talbot
Lyrics	Adrian Ross Percy Greenbank
Book	Fred Thompson Percy Greenbank
Basis	Pinero's play, The Magistrate
Productions	1917 West End

The Boy is a musical comedy with a book by Fred Thompson and Percy Greenbank (based on Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 play, The Magistrate), music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot and lyrics by Greenbank and Adrian Ross. The original production opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1917 and ran for 801 performances – one of the longest runs of any musical theatre piece up to that time. It had successful foreign productions and tours.