Question: Who conceived and developed a 1980 musical which starred British actress Leila Benn Harris as Carmen?
Context: Fame is a stage musical based on the 1980 musical film of the same name.  It has been staged under two titles; The first, Fame – The Musical conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by José Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy.  The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami, Florida.  The second was as Fame on 42nd Street, where it was performed Off-Broadway at the Little Shubert Theatre on 42nd St. from 2003 to 2004. The Best is a British programme which aired for ten episodes in 2002 on BBC2.  The series starred British cooks Silvana Franco and Paul Merrett and Australian Ben O'Donoghue, who participated in friendly competition to create the best dish for each of two given categories per half-hour episode.  Judging was performed by a rotating panel of three judges, who were not told who created which dish. Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist.  He was a member of parliament (MP) for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s.  Originally a moderate, he was identified as being on the party's hard left from the early 1980s, and was widely seen as a key proponent of democratic socialism within the party. Leila Benn Harris (born 1983) is a British actress and singer.  She trained at Arts Educational School in London and graduated with a BA in Musical Theatre.  Upon graduation, she was cast in the lead role of Carmen in the No.1 National Tour of "Fame".  She then made her West-End debut in the same role at the Aldwych Theatre. Honeysuckle Rose is the twenty-seventh studio album and the soundtrack to the 1980 musical drama film of the same name, which stars Willie Nelson.  Tracks on the album include songs by Nelson and various artists including Kenneth Threadgill, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Gimble, Hank Cochran, Jeannie Seely and Dyan Cannon. Malika Oufkir (Arabic: مليكة أوفقير‎ ‎ ) (born April 2, 1953 in Marrakesh) is a Moroccan Berber writer and former "disappeared".  She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. The Lark is a 2007 British psychological thriller film directed by Steve Tanner and written by Paul Farmer.  The film starred British TV actress Mary Woodvine, and was filmed in 18 days in Cornwall, England on a budget of £12,000.  It premiered in The UK at the Cambridge Film Festival and has subsequently been shown at The Calgary International Film Festival, The Twin Rivers Media Festival where picked up the 1st Place prize for Best Feature and at the 1st LIC Astoria Film Festival. Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay (5 September 1910 – 13 April 1996) was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey.  Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote "Musical Productions", a musical book.  She was the daughter of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaughter of the vocalist Antoinette Sterling. The Chinese Detective is a British television police procedural drama series, first transmitted by the BBC between 1981 and 1982.  The series was created by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had previously devised "The Sweeney" and "Juliet Bravo".  The series starred British Chinese actor David Yip as Detective Sergeant John Ho, the first Chinese lead actor in a British television drama series.  The series offered traditional police procedural storylines in a setting of occasional prejudice and distrust within the police force, and the prejudice displayed by those Ho encounters whilst doing his job.  Like many other television detectives of the time, Ho was something of a maverick, often using unorthodox methods to solve crimes.  The series was set in and around London's docklands, before redevelopment began in the 1980s. Swing with Scooter was a DC Comics teen-humor American comic book published from 1966 to 1972.  It starred British teenage musician nicknamed Scooter who lived in the US.
Answer: David De Silva