Composer, lyricist, librettist, producer, publisher

First song by himself: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"

Where's Charlie, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Green Willow, How To Succeed in Business Without Even Trying

Promoted music of Meredith Wilson, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Composer

The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees

Both shows won the Tony for Best Musical

Only partner was Ross, who died at age 29

Lyricist

The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees

Both won the Tony for Best Musical

Ross died at age 29

Composer, lyricist, and librettist of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Music Man was his one hit wonder, basically.

Written by Adler and Ross, it was the story of workers in a pajama factory.

First show Fosse choreographed (remember song: "Steam Heat")

Co-directed by Jerome Robbins and George Abbott

Sports & Faustian Plot

First starring role for Gwen Verdon (later married and divorced Fosse)

Directed by George Abbott

"Whatever Lola Wants"

First show by Loesser

Directed by George Abbott

Hit song: "Once in Love with Amy"

Lead: Ray Bolger (Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz)

Director of Where's Charley, Fiorello!, The Pajama Game, and lots of other shit.

First Show directed: Jumbo, by Rodgers and Hart

Wrote the books for Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, and lots of other shit

Author of the stories that inspired Guys and Dolls by Loesser

"Runyonland" is the name of the overture.

Director of Guys and Dolls

Librettist of Merrily We Roll Along and Of Thee I Sing

Music and Lyrics by Loesser

Book by Abbott

Directed by George S. Kaufman

Choreographed by Michael Kidd

Highroller in Guys and Dolls

In love with Sarah

Singer of "Luck, Be a Lady Tonight"

The chronically ill night club singer in Guys and Dolls

Engaged for 14 years to Nathan Detroit

Hit song from Guys and Dolls

 Comedic piece that details Adelaide's fight with chronic illnesses and her commitment-phobic fiancé

Musical by Loesser

Hit songs: "Standing on the Corner" "Big Dallas" and "Joey Joey Joey"

1. Of Thee I Sing
2. South Pacific
3. Fiorello!
4. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5. A Chorus Line
6. Sunday in the Park With George
7. Rent
8. Next to Normal

Choreographer and Director

First show choreographed: The Pajama Game ("Steam Heat"

Pippin, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed, Chicago, Cabaret

Married and Divorced Gwen Verdon

1973: Emmy (Liza with a Z), Tony(Pippin), and Oscar (Cabaret) for directing: only director to win this triple crown

Music and Lyrics: Loesser

Book: Burrows

Produced: Feuer and Martin

Choreographed: Fosse

Won the Pulitzer for Loesser

Hit songs: "A Secretary is not a toy" "I Believe in You" and "The Company Way"

Protagonist of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Originated by Robert Morse

First starring role: Lola in Damn Yankees

Married and divorced Bob Fosse

Hit song from Adler and Ross in The Pajama Game

It was number 1 on the charts before the show opened

Seductive Song for Joe in Damn Yankees

Originally sung by Gwen Verdon as Lola, a sexy woman summoned by the devil to distract the star player Joe

Composer of Gypsy (lyrics by Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents), Funny Girl (lyrics by Bob Merrill), and Bells are Ringing

He was still writing shows in his 90s

High Button Shoes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (for Carol Channing), Peter Pan (for Mary Martin), Gypsy (for Ethel Merman), Funny Girl (for Barbara Streisand)

Written for Ethel Merman by Jule Styne

Lyrics by Sondheim (he wanted to do the score, Merman said no)

Book by Arthur Laurents

Produced by David Merrick

Based on the story of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, focused on her "Soccer Mom" Mama Rose

Written for Barbara Streisand by Jule Styne

Based on Fanny Brice

Lyrics by Bob Merrill

Written for Judy Holiday by Jule Styne

Movie: Judy Holiday and Dean Martin

Hit songs: "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over"

Lyricists and librettists

On the Town, Singing in the Rain, Wonderful Town, Bells are Ringing, Peter Pan, Subways are for Sleeping, 

Lyrics: West Side Story, Gypsy, Do I Hear a Waltz, 

Music and Lyrics: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Passion, Assassins

Inspiration for Jule Styne's Funny Girl

Originally played by Barbara Streisand

Written by Jule Styne for Carol Channing

Movie: Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell

Hit song: "Diamonds are a girl's best friend"

Original Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Original Dolly in Hello, Dolly!

Written for Mary Martin by Jule Styne

Didn't run long: went to TV

Son-of-a-bitch producer 

Remember his trick using normal people who had the same name as the critics

Produced Subways are for Sleeping, Mack & Mabel, Promises, Promises and other shit

Director and Choreographer

Co director of The Pajama Game

Choreographer of West Side Story, High Button Shoes, The King and I, 

Directed and Choreographed Peter Pan, Bells are Ringing, Fiddler on the Roof

Librettist of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear a Waltz?

Director of Anyone Can Whistle, La Cage Aux Folles

"Let Me Entertain You"

"Everything's Coming up Roses"

"I have a dream"

Sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, the daughter Rose focuses on.

"Hi, I'm baby June! What's your name?"

Sondheim's favorite piece of his own lyrics

The strippers teaching Gypsy Rose Lee how to get ahead

by Jule Styne

This is when David Merrick, ticked at the critics' reviews, pulled in normal people who happened to share names with the critics, and ran their comments in the newspaper.

Subways are for Sleeping: when David Merrick, ticked at the critics' reviews, pulled in normal people who happened to share names with the critics, and ran their comments in the newspaper.

Merrick tried, and succeeded in, controlling the media to his liking.

Fanny Brice's signature number in the Ziegfeld Follies

She wanted to play it up, but Ziegfeld insisted that it be played straight

Musical based on the film Some Like it Hot

Music by Jule Styne, book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill

Lyricist: The Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, The Rothchilds, The Body Beautiful, Tenderloin, Fiorello!, She Loves Me

Worked with Jerry Bock

Composer: The Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, The Rothchilds, The Body Beautiful, Tenderloin, Fiorello!, She Loves Me

Worked with Sheldon Harnick

Book by Joseph Stein

Music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and Geroge David Weiss

Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.

The original inspiration for She Loves Me

(Parfumerie became the film The Shop Around the Corner which became In the Good Old Summertime which later became She Loves Me)

In the line of inspirations for She Loves Me

(Parfumerie became the film The Shop Around the Corner which became In the Good Old Summertime which later became She Loves Me)

Original Cunegonde in Candide

Original Marian in The Music Man

Original Amalia in She Loves Me

Musical by Bock and Harnock

Inspiration: Parfumerie became the film The Shop Around the Corner which became In the Good Old Summertime which later became She Loves Me

Musical in three unrelated acts by Bock and Harnick

Act I: The diary of Adam and Eve

Act II: The Tiger and the lady

Act III: Passionella

Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

A Musical by Bock and Harnick about a Jewish man and his five children

The critics thought it was too close to Fiddler, and it caused such artistic disagreements that the two never worked together again.

Composer who caught melodies well

Nightcap, Parade, Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, La Cage Aux Folles, Mame, Mack & Mabel

Set in Israel, about Americans visiting

Story was unlike anything else he ever wrote: somber, sober, nearly operetta

Starred Molly Picon

Critics thought it was too close to Fiddler (much of the same A-staff, many of the same cast, etc.)

Original Clara Weiss of Milk and Honey

Original Yenta in Fiddler on the Roof

Based on the Thorton Wilder play The Matchmaker, Hello, Dollly! is the story of Dolly Levi who plays matchmaker for everyone, including herself.

Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

Originally starred: Carol Channing

Produced by David Merrick

Directed by Gower Champion (who had a ramp built around the orchestra pit)

Musical about an older woman, "Auntie Mame," by Jerry Herman

Mame was originally played by Angela Lansbury

The original Mame in Mame

The original Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd

musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

ran for less than 2 months

Produced by David Merrick

Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion

Starred Bernadette Peters and Robert Preston

American silent film star in many of Mack Sennett's movies

Mack Sennett's lover

Inspired the Jerry Herman musical Mack and Mabel

Originally played by Bernadette Peters

Canadian-born American Hollywood director of silent films starring Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand's lover

Inspired the Jerry Herman musical Mack and Mabel

originally played by Robert Preston

AMAZING!!

Original Dot in Sunday in the Park, Witch in Into the Woods, Mabel in Mack and Mabel, Emma in Song and Dance, 

Librettist of La Cage Aux Folles

Original Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, revived Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof

Book by Harvey Fierstein, Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman

Directed by Arthur Laurents

Starred George Hearn

Produced The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello!, Tenderloin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Flora, the Red Menace

Produced and directed She Loves Me, Cabaret, Zorba the Greek, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along

Directed Sweeney Todd, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Parade

Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by George Abbott

Ran for less than three months

Produced by Harold Prince

Directed by George Abbott

Starred Liza Minnelli as Flora

Original Flora in Flora the Red Menace

Daughter of Judy Garland

Mother of Liza Minnelli

in one of the movie inspirations for She Loves Me

Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb

Produced and directed by Harold Prince

Original Emcee: Joel Grey

Hit song: "Wilkommen"

The Master of Ceremonies in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret

Originally played by Joel Grey

Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb

Produced by Merrick

Directed and Choreographed by Champion

Starred Robert Goulet

Their first failure

Music by Kander, lyrics by Ebb

FAIL!! Too close to Fiddler on the Rood

Book by Joseph Stein

Produced and directed by Harold Prince

Starred Maria Karnilova (the original Golde)

Star of The Happy Time 

Original Lancelot and revived Arthur in Camelot

Revived La Cage Aux Folles

Original Zorba in Zorba

Played Tevye: 2 times in the original run and 1st in the revival of Fiddler on the Roof

Theater critic

Commander of the Order of the British Empire 

Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Music by Kander, lyrics by Ebb, book by Ebb and Fosse

Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse

Starred: Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera

Protagonist of Chicago by Kander and Ebb

Originally played by Gwen Verdon

Protagonist? of Chicago by Kander and Ebb

Originally played by Chita Rivera

Later musical by Kander and Ebb, book by Peter Stone

Starred Lauren Bacall

Later musical by Kander and Ebb

Directed by Harold Prince

Starred Chita Rivera

Music by Webber, lyrics by Rice

Originally 15 minutes, expanded through time

The story of the last days of Christ

Music by Webber, Lyrics by Rice

Rock-opera

Eva Peron's story

Starring Patti Lupone

Music by Webber, Lyrics by Tim Rice

Based on the songs from ABBA

Book by Catherine Johnson

Based on Che Gueverra

in Evita