Dear Miss Phoebe

{{short description|1950 musical}}

{{Infobox play

| name =Dear Miss Phoebe

| image =File:Dear Miss Phoebe.jpg

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| writer = Christopher Hassall

| music = Harry Parr-Davies

| setting = England, 1810s

| date of premiere = 31 July 1950

| original language = English

| place = Theatre Royal, Birmingham

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| genre = Musical

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Dear Miss Phoebe is a musical with a book by Christopher Hassall and music by Harry Parr-Davies. It is based on the play Quality Street by J.M. Barrie.

It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End, where it ran for 283 performances between 13 October 1950 and 16 June 1951. The original London cast included Carol Raye, Peter Graves, Olga Lindo, Moya Nugent, Gretchen Franklin and Noel Dyson.Wearing, p. 50 The song "I Leave My Heart in an English Garden" from it is particularly well-known.{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=Adrian |title=The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn |date=2008 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd |isbn=978-1-84383-412-0 |page=235 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg8WAxFjyrAC&pg=PA235 |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Robert |last2=Jubin |first2=Olaf |title=The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-998874-7 |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8tjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA256 |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en}}