Tags: Musical.
Shinbone Alley (sometimes performed as archy & mehitabel) is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks lyrics by Darion and music by George Kleinsinger. Based on archy and mehitabel a series of New York Tribune columns by Don Marquis it focuses on poetic cockroach archy (who wasn;t strong enough to depress the typewriter’s shift-key) alley cat mehitabel and her relationships with theatrical cat tyrone t.