Question: Who wrote the music for the play in which Morag McLaren played Carlotta?

Context articles: Ponkunnam Damodaran
Words and Music (play)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
The Hunger (band)
Viola Concerto (Walton)
Oboe Concerto (Martinů)
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
Morag McLaren
Groucho: A Life in Revue
Kaka Hathrasi

Ponkunnam Damodaran was a lyricist, novelist, dramatist who was active in or before the 1950s.
 He wrote the song "Pachappanamthate...", used in the Malayalam film "Nottam".
 He was born in Ponkunnam in [Kottayam District] of Kerala.He wrote novels: Sarpam kotthunna sathyangal,Aadarsam theechoolayanu etc.Also he wrote plays: Mathamethaayaalum manushyan nannavanam, Rashtra silpi etc.He wrote 6 beautiful songs with Vayalar Ramavarma in Nammalonnu-drama written by Cherukaadu.The song 'Irunaazhi manninnai urukunna karshakar irukaali maadukalaayirunnu' Pachappanamthathe punnarappoomuthe punnellin poonkarale' are were written fotr this play and music done by M.S.Babu raj and sung by kzhikkode Abdul kader.
Samuel Beckett wrote the radio play, Words and Music between November and December 1961.
 It was recorded and broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 13 November 1962.
 Patrick Magee played Words and Felix Felton, Croak.
 Music was composed especially by John S. Beckett.
 The play first appeared in print in "Evergreen Review" 6.27 (November–December 1962).
 Beckett himself translated the work into French under the title Paroles et Musique ("Minuit", 1972).
At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
 First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture (Op. 21).
 Later, in 1842, only a few years before his death, he wrote incidental music (Op. 61) for a production of the play, into which he incorporated the existing Overture.
 The incidental music includes the world-famous "Wedding March".
 The German title reads "Ein Sommernachtstraum".
The Hunger is an industrial rock band from Houston, Texas formed by brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson along with Brian Albritton.
 During the initial year of putting the band together and working on new material the band wrote and independently released the single, "Shock" in 1991 which rose to the top of the dance charts.
 Industrial dance music ruled the charts in Europe along with strong ties to Chicago, Wax Trax Records, and Houston.
 Subsequent releases of "Cut the Skin" and "Shoot to Kill" gained national exposure on the dance charts and club scene.
 "Never Again" was self-released as a radio single and quickly rose to the top of Houston Radio Station's 93Q and 96.5 attracting the attention of independent record label Alpha International.
 Stephen Bogle produced the single of "Never Again".
 The band wrote and produced the album "Leave Me Alone" but due to the bankruptcy of Alpha International the record sat idle.
 It was released but there were no marketing efforts behind it.
 After the release of the album, the band sought out drummer Max Schuldberg and they played their first concert as a foursome opening for Peter Murphy at Southern Star Amphitheater.
 They played concerts in Texas as a foursome for two years.
 Along with the three founders and newest member Max Schuldberg, the band added producer Stephen Bogle as guitarist to complete the line up.
 The band recorded and produced "Grip" under their own start up label, Gut Records.
 "Grip" went on to sell 15,000 units with the help of a crafty rework of Bad Company's "Feel like Makin Love".
 Universal Records, at the time a brand new start up label, heard of the success of "Grip" and signed the band as their second artist ever.
 "Devil Thumbs a Ride", the 3rd album, had already been recorded and mastered and was about to be manufactured for another self-release when Universal stepped in to sign the band and release the album as-is.
 The Hunger had a hit song in 1996, "Vanishing Cream", from the "Devil Thumbs a Ride" CD, which received heavy airplay on rock stations and reached No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock charts.
 After two years of constant touring, the band finally stopped to record their second release with Universal Records, "Cinematic Superthug".
 After only moderate success with the single, "Moderation", the band asked to be and was granted a release from their contract from Universal Records.
 Two songs, "Shoot to Kill", also from "Devil Thumbs a Ride", and "If", from "Grip", reached No. 42 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart.
 The band has released six albums: two on Universal Records and four on independent labels. Former original drummer (1991-2003) Max Schuldberg (voted 2002's Best Drummer by the Houston Press Music Awards) parted with the band after the five albums in 2003 and moved to Los Angeles.
 Former guitarist and two time Grammy Award nominee (remixer, for his work with D.J. Cubanito) Stephen Bogle now Produces artists in the Metal, Electronic, and Pop genres.
 In late 2005 Stephen Bogle parted ways with the band, and Tim Huston was quickly picked up.
 With having only a few practices with the band they headed on tour with Ten Years.
 Tim Huston Stayed with the band from late '05 til 2013.
 "The lifestyle was just getting to overwhelming for me to handle".
 "If I would have stayed, who knows what would have happened to me.
 There was just no off button".
 In 2013, guitarist Raf Rivera joined the lineup, and the band is currently in the process of recording their first new material in over 8 years.
The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 for the violist Lionel Tertis at the suggestion of Sir Thomas Beecham.
 The concerto carries the dedication "To Christabel" (Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway).
 But Tertis rejected the manuscript, and composer and violist Paul Hindemith gave the first performance.
 The work was greeted with enthusiasm.
 It brought Walton to the forefront of British classical music.
 In "The Manchester Guardian", Eric Blom wrote, "This young composer is a born genius" and said that it was tempting to call the concerto the best thing in recent music of any nationality.
 Tertis soon changed his mind and took the work up.
Bohuslav Martinů's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra, H. 353, was written in 1955 for the Czech-born Australian oboist Jiří Tancibudek.
 Tancibudek had been performing oboe recitals in Australia following his emigration there, and had been often asked to play more Czech music.
 Although he had never met Martinů, they had both played in the Czech Philharmonic (albeit 30 years apart).
 When Tancibudek wrote to the composer in the early 1950s asking for such a piece, he was initially rebuffed.
 But Martinů wrote again in 1954, saying he would write the work and asked Tancibudek to introduce it to the world.
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe.
 Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's book together.
 Based on the French novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Opera Garnier.
Morag McLaren is an Edinburgh, Scotland-born cabaret artist, singer and actress.
 She has performed in musicals from concerts and one woman shows to opera, in which she originally trained at The Royal Northern College of Music, performing in Buxton Festival and with Opera North while still a student.
 She enjoyed an 18-month West End run in "Phantom of the Opera" at Her Majesty's Theatre, playing Carlotta.
 She has released three solo CDs.
Groucho: A Life in Revue is a stage play written by Groucho Marx's son Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher .
 With musical direction by Jim Grady.
 It is a look at the life and career of the famous entertainer Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers and "You Bet Your Life" fame.
 It opened off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on October 8, 1986 and played 254 performances closing on May 3, 1987.
 It starred 23-year-old actor Frank Ferrante as Groucho Marx from age 15 to 85, Les Marsden as Harpo Marx and Chico Marx, Faith Prince as The Girls and Rusty Magee as The Citizen of Freedonia.
 It was directed by Arthur Marx.
 The play opened to rave reviews. "
The New York Times" wrote, "There is laughter in abundance" and described Ferrante's performance as "artful...his timing is digital sharp."
 The "New York Post" dubbed it "hilarious...a brilliant revue."
 "Groucho" was nominated for two NY Outer Critics Circle Awards - one for Best Play and one for Ferrante's performance.
 Ferrante won a 1987 New York Theatre World Award for 'Outstanding New Talent.'
 The play was produced by Nancy and Ronnie Horowitz.
Kaka Hathrasi (18 September 1906 – 18 September 1995) was a noted Hindi satirist and humorist poet of India.
 His real name was Prabhu Lal Garg.
 He wrote under the pen name "Kaka Hathrasi".
 He chose "Kaka", as he played the character in a play which made him popular, and "Hathrasi" after the name of his hometown Hathras.
 He has 42 works to his credit, comprising a collection of humorous and satirical poems, prose and plays published by various publishers.
 He also wrote three books on Indian classical music under the pen name "Vasant".
 In 1932, he established "Sangeet Karyalaya" (initially Garg and Co.), a noted publishing house for the books on Indian classical music and dance and started publishing a monthly magazine "Sangeet" in 1935, which earned a high reputation.
 "Sangeet" is the only periodical on Indian classical music and dance which has been continuously published for over 78 years.
 Kaka Hathrasi had many talents – as a writer, poet, musician, musicologist, actor and a fine painter.
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 He was a regular performer of Hindi Kavi Sammelan.
 In fact, he was one of the poets who established Hasya (comic) Kavi on Kavi Sammelan stage.