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Producers, Directors, Choreographers, Composers, and Lyricists Flashcards

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George Balanchine

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1904 - 1983
Father of American Ballet

    • Ziegfeld Follies (1936)
    • On Your Toes (1936)
    • Babes in Arms (1937)
    • Boys from Syracuse (1938)
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Agnes De Mille

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1905 - 1993:
Master of the Dream Ballets:

    • Oklahoma (1943)
    • Carousel (1947)
  • Brigadoon (1947)
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
  • Paint Your Wagon (1951)

Worked her dancers very hard, but they loved her.
Great Choreographer, terrible director

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Jack Cole

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HS: Athletic Jazz
Father of Modern Jazz (NOT Fosse)

    • Ziegfeld Follies of (1943)
    • Something for the Boys (Porter) (1943)
  • Kismet (Forrest & Wright) (1953)
    • Forum (Sondheim) (1962)
    • Man of La Mancha (Darion & Leigh) (1965)
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Jerome Robbins

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    • On the Town (1944)
    • Call Me Madam (1950)
    • King and I (1951)
    • Pajama Game (1954) (also Codirect)
  • Peter Pan (1954) (also Dir)
  • Bells are Ringing (1956) (alo Dir)
    • West Side Story (1957) (also Dir)
    • Gypsy (1959) (also Dir)
    • Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (also Dir)

SUPER Hated on Broadway

Ratted out his friends to HUAC cause they were going to out him as gay.

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Richard D’Oyly Carte

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The producer for Gilbert and Sullivan

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W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

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1830s - 1900s
Music and Words equally important
plays staged by Doyly O’carte Opera Company

    • The Mikado (1885)
    • HMS Pinafore (1878)
    • Pirates of Penzance (1879)
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Jerome Kern

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1885 - 1945
– Showboat (w/ Hammerstein)

started out as a rehearsal pianist on Tin Pan Alley

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Sigmund Romberg

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1887 - 1951
HS: Worked with Hammerstein on some early works

    • The Desert Song (1926)
    • The New Moon (1928)
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Geroge and Ira Gershwin

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Gerorge 1898 - 1937

    • Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
    • An American in Paris (1928)
    • Porgy and Bess (1934)
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Irving Berlin

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1888-1989

    • Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
    • Call Me Madam (1950)
    • White Christmas
    • Easter Parade (film)
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Lorenz Hart

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worked with Richard Rodgers before Hammerstein

    • On Your Toes (1936)
    • Babes in Arms (1936)
    • The Boys from Syracuse (1938)
    • Pal Joey (1940)
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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hamerstein II

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Rogers 1902 - 1979 (composer)
Hammerstein 1895 - 1960 (Lyrics)

HS: Mature plots, integrate singing and dancing with character

    • Oklahoma (1943)
    • Carousel (1945)
    • State Fair (1945)
    • South Pacific (1949)
    • The King and I (1951)
    • Cinderella (1957)
    • Flower Drum Song (1958)
    • Sound of Music (1959)
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Alan J Lerner and Frederick Loewe

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Lerner (1918 - 1986) librettist
Loewe (1901 - 1988) composer

(Common Theme: Marriage)

    • Brigadoon (1947)
    • My Fair Lady (1956)
    • Camelot (1960)
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Frank Loesser

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1910 - 1969
Tin Pan Alley, then hollywood

HS: Clever, witty lyrics and fast musical style (fugue for tinhorns)

    • Guys and Dolls (1950)
  • 0 The Most Happy Fella (1956)
    • H2$ (1961)
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Meredith Willson

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1902 - 1984:

– MUSIC MAN (1957)

less important:

  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960)
  • Here’s Love (1963)
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George Abbott

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1887 - 1995
also a show doctor

    • Pal Joey (1940)
    • On the Town (1944)
  • Call Me Madam (1950)
    • Wonderful Town (1953)
    • Pajama Game [co with Jerome Robbins] (1954)
    • Damn Yankees (1955)
  • Forum (1962)
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Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

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Adler (Lyricist) 1921- 2012
Ross (Composer) 1926 - 1955

known for two smash hits:

    • Pajama Game (1954)
    • Damn Yankees (1955)
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Jerry Herman

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1931 -

    • Dolly (1964)
    • Mame (1966)
  • Dear World (1969)
  • Mack and Mabel (1974)
    • La Cage (1983)
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Gower Champion

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1919 - 1980

    • Showboat (Performer!)
    • Hello, Dolly! (1964)
  • I Do, I Do! (1966)
  • Mack and Mabel (1974)
  • 42nd Street (1980)

Famously died on opening night of 42nd Street

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Kurt Weill

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1900 - 1950

    • Threepenny Opera (1933)
    • Street Scene (1947)
  • Lady in the Dark (1941)
  • Love Life (1948)
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Leonard Bernstein

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1918 - 1990

    • On the Town (1944)
    • Wonderful Town (1953)
    • Candide (1956)
    • West Side Story (1957)
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Betty Comden and Adolph Green

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Comden 1917 - 2006
Green 1915 -2002

Lyricists and playwrights

    • On the Town (1944)
    • Wonderful Town (1954)
  • Peter Pan (1954)
  • Bells Are Ringing (1956)
  • Applause (1970)
  • On the Twentieth Century (1978)
  • The Will Rogers Follies (1991)
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Michael Kidd

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1915 - 2007:
director/choreographer

    • Guys and Dolls (1950) [choreo only] TONY
    • Can-Can (1953) [choreo only] TONY
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Hal Prince

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1928 -
producer:

– Pajama Game (1955)

[others after the midterm]

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Flo Ziegfeld

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1867 - 1932

– Ziegfeld Follies

– Produced Showboat

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David Merrick

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1911 - 2000

HS: Slimeball, all publicity is good publicity

    • Produced 42nd street
    • Produced Gypsy

Famously announced George Abbot had died after 42nd street opened. Show ran for years

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Bob Fosse

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1927 - 1987

HS: More style and personality in your jazz

    • Pajama Game (1954)
    • Damn Yankees (1955)
  • Redhead (1959) [D/C]
    • Sweet Charity (1966) [D/C]
    • Pippin (1973) [D/C]
    • Chicago (1976) [D/C/B]

Also did films

Married Gwen Verdon

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Michael Bennett

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(1943 - 1987)

    • Company (1970) [C]
    • Follies (1971) [cD/C]
    • A Chorus Line (1976) [D/C]
    • Dreamgirls (1981) [D/C]
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Stephen Sondheim

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    • West Side Story
    • Gypsy
    • Forum
    • Company
    • Follies
    • A Little Night Music
  • Pacific Overtures
    • Sweeney
    • Sunday in the Park with George
    • Into the Woods
  • Assassins
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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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British. Showed America that the rest of the world can do musicals too.

    • Evita
    • Jesus Christ Superstar
    • Cats
    • Phantom
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Susan Stroman

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Directed Producers

Directed Crazy For You

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Andy Blankenbueheler

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Choreography

    • Hamilton
    • In the Heights

Choreography:

    • 9 to 5
    • Bring it On
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Moss Hart

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  • -Directed My Fair Lady

- - Directed Camelot

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Arthur Laurents

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  • -Directed La Cage

- -Book for Gypsy

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James Lapine

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Director / Writer:

    • Sunday in the Park
    • Into the Woods
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Julie Traymor

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Director:

    • The Lion King
    • Spider Man, Turn off the Dark
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Trevor Nunn

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Director:

    • A Little Night Music
    • Les Miz
    • Cats
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Thomas Kail

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Director:

    • Hamilton
    • In the Heights
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Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

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Composer: Bock
Lyricist: Harnick

    • She Loves Me
    • Fiddler
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John Kander and Fred Ebb

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Music: Kander
Lyrics: Ebb

    • Cabaret
    • Chicago
    • Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Stephen Schwartz

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Composer:

    • Pippin
  • Godspell
    • Wicked
  • Children of Eden
  • Prince of Egypt
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Tim Rice

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Lyricist

    • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
    • JCS
    • Evita
    • Lion King
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Claude-Michele Schonberg and Boublil

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MUSIC: Schonberg
LYRICS: Boublil

    • Les Miz
    • Miss Saigon
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Jonathan Larsen

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best known for RENT

also did Tick Tick Boom

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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    • Hamilton

- - In the Heights

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Duncan Sheik

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Spring Awakening

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Livent

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Production Company with lots of early successes but also lots of insolvency issues later on

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Disney

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I know what Disney is

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Cameron MacIntosh

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King of the Mega Musical:

    • Les Miz
    • Phantom
    • Miss Saigon
    • Cats

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