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Broadway:
Music and Songs: Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz
Producer: Max Gordon
Choreographer: Albertina Rasch
Featured Artist: Fred and Adele Astaire
1953 Movie Version:
Producer: Arthur Freed
Story: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Director: Vicente Minnelli
Choreographer: Fred Astaire and Michael Kidd
Artist: Astaire, Cyd Charrise, Oscar Levant |
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Astaire persuade by friends to star in a Broadway musical. But production is in chaos and opening night is unsuccessful. However Tony doesn't give up and makes it a Broad Way smash.
- Told mostly in jokes |
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She is American dancer
- Mission to Moscow, Band Wagon, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon |
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American Musician, pianist.
- An American in Paris, The Barkleys of Broadway, The Band Wagon
-"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me." |
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American Jewish musical film and stage choreographer. Co-producer from 1930's- 90's.
- Seven Brides for seven Brothers, Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Lil-Abner, The Goodbye Girl
- Tony Award Nomination:
- Subways are for Sleeping, Skyscraper, The Rothschilds |
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| SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS |
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1954 MGM
Music and Lyrics: Gene de Paul, Johnny Mercer
Book: Stephen Vincent Benet
Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Jack Cummins
Choreographer: Michael Kidd
Artist: Jane Powell, Howard Keel
Academy Award:
- Best Musical, picture, script, and editing |
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From Savannah Georgia, award wining lyricist, composer, and singer.
Academy Award:
- The Harvey Girls, Moon River, Breakfast at Tiffany's |
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Broadway:
Music Lyrics: Jerry Herman
Book: Michael Stewart
Producer: David Merrick
Choreographer: Gower Champion
Artist: Carl Channing, David Burns
Songs: It takes a woman, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, Before parade passes by, Hello Dolly
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- Received 11 Tony nominations, won 10 awards |
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Based on Thorton Wilder's The Matchmaker
Director: Gene Kelly
Choreographer: Michael Kidd
Artist: Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
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- Oscar: Sound, Score, Art Direction
- Best Picture and Photography |
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American character actor for wry comedy. Appeared in 50 films
- Indian Fighter, The Fortune Cookie, Hello Dolly, Kotch, The Sunshine Boy, IQ |
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English, began as a child actor, and British comedy lead.
- Blow your own trumpet, Funny thing happened on the way to the forum, Hello Dolly, Chalk and cheese |
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American dancer, singer, choregrapher-director. Studied at University of Texas
- Awards: Dance Magazine Award 1984, 8 Drama Desk, 2 Obis, 9 Tony, Unihealth America pinnacle, Michelangelo Show award |
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American singer, and entertainer.
- Funny Girl, Hello Dolly,
- "Nobody really knows me, I'm a mixture of self confident and insecurity, one thing for sure I hate talking about myself" |
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Am. Broadway legend, producer, director, first was in legal career became theatrical producer afterwards.
- known for publicity stunts
- Subways are for Sleeping, 42nd Street,
- Award (Tony): Becket, Luther, Hello Dolly, Rosencrantz, and Guilderstern are dead |
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Broadway:
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics and Books: Oscar Hammerstein II
Producer: Theatre Guild
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
1955 Movie:
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Choreographers: Angnes de Mille and gene nelson
Artist: Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae |
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Vienna, trained first as a violinist and lawyer. Came to Hollywood at 1929.
- The Search, high noon, From here to Eternity, Oklahoma, The Nun's Story, The Sundowners, A man for all seasons, Julia |
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New York, She was an influential choregrapher, director, dancer and writer in 1940-50.
- Oklahoma
- Awards: Dance Magazine Award, Kennedy Center Honors, Special Tony Award, Capezio Award, The White House National Medal of Arts |
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Broad Way:
Music and Lyrics: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Producer: R. Rodgers, Hammerstein II, Joseph Fields
Director: Gene Kelly
Choreographer: carol Haney
1961 Movie:
director: Henry Koster
Choreographer: Hermes Pan
Artist: Miyoshi Umeki, Juanita Hall, Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Benson Fong |
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Dancer, Choreographer, and actress, collaborated with Kelly, Jack Cole, bob Fosse
- On the Town, Kiss e Kate, Invitation to the dance, Summer stock, Brigadoon |
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Japanese Leading Lady
Award: Academy, in Sayonarra
- Cry for Happy, A girl named tamiko, The courtship of Eddie's Father |
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Chinese-English leading lady.
- The world of Suzie Wong (1960), and 20 other films |
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American actress, and singer, best known for South Pacific, and Flower Drum Song
- first black to win Tony for best supporting actress as Bloody Mary in South Pacific |
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Chinese-American actor in 25 films and tv shows.
- Master Po in Kung Fu |
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Chinese actor in original flower drum song.
- opened many Ah Fong restaurants in CA. |
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| A hundred million miracles, Sunday |
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Broadway:
Music: Richard Rogerrs
Lyrics: Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Producers: Leland Hayward, Richard halliday, Rodgers and Hammerstein II
Director: Vincent Donohue
Choreograher: Joe Layton
Movie 1965:
Director: Robert Wise
Choregrapher: Marc Breaux, Dee Dee Wood
Artist: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, Marni nixon |
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| THE SOUND OF MUSIC (SONGS) |
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| The sound of music, 16-17,My favorite things, Do-re-mi, The lovely Goatherd, Edelwiess, So Long Farewell |
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Successful director and film maker in 60s. He joined RKO in the 30's
- West side Story, The Sound of Music |
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Self taught pianist, focused on writing songs, scoring, and arranging music for films,
- On the town, An american in Paris, Kiss me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, Sound of Music |
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multi talented dance maker. Wife Dee Dee wood, studied modern dance at Doris Humphrey.
- That's the ticket, assisted Michael Kidd and Dee Dee Wood
- Choreographed four musicals and appeared in dramas romeo and Juliet, played as Tybalt |
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American dancer, choreographer, director, met Michael Kidd in Guys and Dolls.
- Mary Poppins, the sound of music, Happiest Millionaire, Chitty Chitty bang bang
- also choreograph XXIII Olympics, and closing ceremonies in 1984. |
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| ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER ORME PLUMMER |
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Canadian actor, acted in many countries.
- Von Trapp in Sound of Music
- appeared in 75 films
- married 3 times and divorced twice |
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Singer, performed in Hippodrome
- The sound of Music
- recent vocal problems
- starred in Princess Diaries 1, 2, and Royal Engagement
- "After the sound of music, christopher plummer said that, working with her is like being hit over the head with a valentine's card"
-"Films are much more my level, on stage i never feel quite enough.." |
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Disney 1964
Music and Lyrics: richard sherman and robert sherman
Co-producer: bill Walsh
Director: Robert Stevenson
Choreographer: Marc Breaux, Dee Dee Wood
Artist: Julie Andrews, Dyk Van Dyke, David Tomilson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber |
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American comedian
- By by birdie, Mary Poppins, Chitty chitty bang bang, and Some kind of Nut
- appeared in many tv shows, Dick van Dyk Show |
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Australia, author of Mary Poppins.
Created a number of sequels, poetry collections, and non-fiction works.
- named PL Travers |
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Robert: award winning Jewish songwriter, and painter. Became a Bard in England
Richard: songwriter and screenwriter
- Great American Symphony, Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Slipper and the Rose, It's a Samll world
Awards: Academy, Super..Chim Chim.. |
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Am. dancer choreographer, ballet master, director
- studied actin, violon, piano
- Musicals: On the Town, The King and I,
Peter Pan, Bells are rining, West side story, Gipsy, Funny girl Fiddler on the roof, Jerom robins Broadway
- 2 Oscars (West side story), Capezio Award, kennedy Center Honors, |
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| THE KING AND I (BROADWAY) |
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Music:Richard Rodgers
Lyrics and Books: Oscar Hammerstein II
Producer: Richard Rodgers and Hammerstein II
Director: John Van Druten
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Artists: Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Bynner
2nd Year:
Director: Yuriko
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins |
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| THE KING AND I (1956 MOVIE) |
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Director: Walter Lang
Artists: Deborah kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno
Songs: Getting to know you, Shall we dance
Award: Best Actor (Yul Brynner), Art direction, Costumes, scoring, screenplay |
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British Leading lady, received Oscar Honorary Achievement. Appeared in 50 films
- major Barbara, Edward my son, The king and I, from here to eternity, Heaven knows mr. Allison, Seperate tables, the sundowners, Woman of Substance
- "All the most successful people these days seem to be neurotic, Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and strat being sorry for me, for being so confounded normal" |
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Russian, American, lived in China then moved to Paris.
- The king and I (Oscar for best actor)
Appeared in 40 films, and TV
- Anna and the king, |
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Costume designer, in 70 productions
- Oscars: An American in Paris, The king and I, West side Story, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf |
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Soloist and dancer
- Film version of the King and I (Eliza) |
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Appeared in 3 following films:
- Shall We dance , Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- Shall We dance, The King and I
- Shall we dance, Japanese Film |
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| SHALL WE DANCE (1995 MOVIE) |
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About a Japanese family man, but not very happy with life.
- he begins to dance and trains with Mia
- Inspired by the King and I |
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| WEST SIDE STORY(1961 BROADWAY) |
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Conception/ Direction: Jerome Robbins
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
Producers: Robert Griffith and Harold Prince
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins, Pter Gennaro |
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| WEST SIDE STORY (1961 MOVIE) |
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Directors: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins, Tommy Abbott, Maggie Banks, Howard Jeffrey, Tony Mordente, Peter Gennaro
Artist: Richard Bymer, Natalie Wood
Songs: Tonight, Maria, Cool, Somewhere |
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Am. composer, conductor, pianist, author, lecturer, created music for, On the Town, West Side Story
- died of emphysema |
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Composer and Lyricist for stage, TV, and film, one of the greatest Am musician
Awards: Acadmey Award, 9 Tony, Multp. Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize
- West side Story, Gypsy, Do I hear a Waltz, |
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Talented actress, dancer, singer. American child actress in 1960. In over 30 films and TV
- Rebel without a cause, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, Love with the Proper Stranger |
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Dancer, Actor, Singer
- West side Story, Bernardo |
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| FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971 BROADWAY) |
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Music: Jerry Bock
Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick
Book: Joseph Stein
Producer: Harold Prince
Director/Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Awrds: New York drama critics, Tony(best musical, score, book, actor, choreographer) |
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| FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971FILM VERSION) |
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Director: Norman Jewison
Choreographer: Tommy Abbott, Sammy Bayes, Jerome Robbins
Songs: If I were a rich man, Matchmaker, Sunrise sunset, Do you love me, Tradition |
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Isreali leading actor, in stage Fiddler on the Roof
- Fiddler on the Roof
- 1972 Golden Globe Award, nominated for best actor
- won 12 oscars |
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Great violinist, from Ukraine, moved to US.
- Oscar winning sountrack Fiddler on the Roof |
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| Winnder of 3 academy awards for Fiddler on the Roof as director |
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Am leading man, singer, in 30 films
- Show boat, Kiss me kate, 7 brides for 7 brothers, kSimet |
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An American singer, leading actress, stared in 40 films, musicals, tv series
- Oklahoma, Carousel, Never Steal anything small, Music Man
- Also in Partridge Family, Shirley |
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