Buzz Miller collection of playscripts 1956-[1968?

Ross, Jerry, 1926-1955

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Rodgers, Mary, 1931-

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Mary Rodgers was born on January 11, 1931, in New York City. Having a father who co-created such Broadway classics as The Sound of Music, The King and I, Oklahoma and South Pacific, Mary demonstrated her family knack for creativity starting at a young age. Beginning with musical endeavors, she took piano lessons for many years and majored in music at Wellesley College. She published her first book in 1969. Three years later came the best seller Freaky Friday, which was adapted to screen in 1977....

Dietz, Howard

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Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, writers and composers. From the description of Revenge with music: typescript, 1934. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122532975 Howard Dietz (1896-1983) was an important musical theater lyricist and motion picture publicist, who is well-known for his professional partnership with composer Arthur Schwartz, as well as for his long association with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. Born in New York City...

Green, Adolph

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Adolph Green (1915-2002) was a lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, and performer. Working with his lifelong writing partner, Betty Comden, Green co-authored the books and lyrics to some of the most important works of musical theater and film. From the description of Adolph Green papers, 1944-2002. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468166 Adolph Green was born in the Bronx, New York on December 2, 1915. After a brief stint ...

Leigh, Mitch, 1928-2014

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Composer. From the description of Autograph card signed : [New York?, to Jim Fuld, n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906334 Thomas Meehan, librettist. Lee Adams, lyricist. Mitch Leigh, composer. From the description of Ain't Broadway grand : a brand new 1948 musical comedy: typescript, 1993. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571403 ...

Lennart, Isobel

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Lennart (1915-1971) started working as a screenwriter in the early 1940s and is best known for writing the book and motion picture biography of Fanny Brice, "Funny Girl" which later appeared on Broadway. From the description of Papers, 1942-1969. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30847104 ...

Allan, Ted

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Comden, Betty

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Betty Comden, part of the successful team of Comden and Green, collaborated as a lyricists with Adolph Green from 1938 until the his death in 2002. Betty Comden was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from New York University, she began her career as a performer and writer in a cabaret act called The Revuers . Adolph Green was born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York. After a short career on Wall Street, Mr. Green joined The Revuers in 1938 and the Comden and Green team was formed. C...

Robbins, Jerome

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American dancer, choreographer, and ballet master. From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks [microform]. 1937-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81722948 From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks. 1986-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79096064 American ballet dancer and choreographer primarily associated with American Ballet Theatre in the 1940s and the New York City Ballet since 1949; also, theatrical director and choreographer whose producti...

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994

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Previews began Oct. 20, 1980, at the Palace Theatre, New York, N.Y. After 8 performances it closed without ever opening officially. Charles Kimbrough and Jack Weston were in the cast album released by Original Cast Records. From the description of One night stand / music and scoring by Jule Styne ; book and lyrics by Herb Gardner, 1980. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 764469120 Composer of "Gypsy" and other music. From the description of Autograph ...

Bovasso, Julie

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Bissell, Richard, 1913-1977

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Richard Bissell (1913-1977) was an American author, playwright and critic. In addition to his literary pursuits, Bissell also worked in the Venezuelan oil fields, as a seaman, a factory superintendent, and as a river pilot on the upper Mississippi and Monongahela Rivers. Originally from Dubuque, Iowa, Bissell graduated from Harvard University in 1936, married Marian Van Patten Grilk in 1938, and had four children: Thomas, Nathaniel, Anastasia, and Samuel. Some of his well-known works include the...

Miller, Buzz

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Haines, Jim

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Adler, Richard, 1921-2012

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George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, librettists. Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, composers and lyricists. From the description of Damn Yankees : typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122431818 Richard Adler is an American composer and lyricist, the son of the distinguished pianist and pedagogue Charles Adler. He produced the Pajama Game and Damn Yankees on Broadway. Richard Adler was the producer and director for various celebrity productions in the K...

Schulman, Arnold

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Wohl, Jack

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Merrill, Bob

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Abbott, George, 1887-1995

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American theatrical producer and director. From the description of George Abbott letter to William Work, 1953 Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 502306264 ...

Schwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984

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Arthur Schwartz, composer. Dorothy Fields, lyricist. Betty Smith and George Abbott, librettists. Betty Smith, novelist. David Ives, concert adaptation. From the description of A tree grows in Brooklyn : typescript, 2005. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468106 Songwriter, producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Schwartz : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608352 Rob...