How to succeed in business without really trying! / music and lyrics by Frank Loesser ; book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert ; based on the book by Shepherd Mead, 1996.

Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969

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Frank Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for "Baby, It's Cold Outside". ...

Burrows, Abe, 1910-1985

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Abe Burrows, playwright, lyricist, director, screenwriter, comedian and play doctor was born Abram S. Burrows on December 18, 1910 in New York City to Louis and Julia Burrows. His father was in the paint and wallpaper business. He graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and attended City College and New York University first in a pre-med program and then studying accounting. In 1931 he was hired by a brokerage firm on Wall Street where he worked for three years. He then worked in his ...

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

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Since 1970, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) has preserved live theatrical productions and documented the creative contributions of distinguished artists and legendary figures of the theatre. With the consent and cooperation of the theatrical unions and each production's artistic collaborators, TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, as well as dialogues between notable theatre personalities. ...

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.)

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Free to Dance: The African-American Presence in Modern Dance was a three-part television documentary co-produced by the American Dance Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in association with Thirteen/WNET New York. The series aired on PBS' Great Performances: Dance in America in 2001 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming-Long Form. It chronicled the role of African-American choreographers and dancers in the development of moder...

Gilbert, Willie, 1916-1980

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McAnuff, Des.

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Weinstock, Jack

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Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, playwrights. From the description of Catch me if you can: typescript: 1965. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122627111 ...

Mead, Shepherd

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