History and Rep II (Joe Iconis)

Jule Styne (1905-1994)

-Vocal coach for Shirley Temple making $1500/week
-Wrote with Sammy Cahn (lyricist) had songs on the hit parade, Three
Coins in the fountain which won an Oscar and wrote Let it Snow
-1947 wrote first Bway score, High Button Shoes
-1949 Gentleman Prefer Blondes
-1951 Two on the Aisle (Betty Comden & Adolph Green)
-1954 Peter Pan (wrote Never, Never Land)
Gypsy
May 21, 1959 Broadway Theatre- 702 Performances
Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Arthur Laurents
Dir./Choreo: Jerome Robbins Cast: Ethel Merman *Same team as West
Side Story
Funny Girl
March 10th, 1964 Winter Garden Theatre 1348 Performances
Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Bob Merrill Choreography: Carol Haney based
on the life of Fanny Brice Cast: Barbra Streisand
Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
*Writers of the longest running American musical in history*
Harvey (b. 1929) Composer- University of Texas
Tom (b.1928) Lyricist/ Librettist
The Fantasticks off-Broadway (1960) Ran for 42 years (17,162
performances) 0ff-broadway revival opened in 2006 and continues to run
Cast: Jerry Orbach
Longest running show in American musical theatre history
Jerry Orbach:
-(1935-2004) American actor and singer studied at the Actors Studio with
Lee Strasberg
- First major role was El Gallo in 1960 in The Fantasticks
-Successful film and TV career (Law and Order, Golden Girls, Frasier, and
Dirty Dancing)
110 In The Shade
October 24, 1963 Broadhurst Theatre 330 Performances

Music: Harvey Schmidt Book & Lyrics: Tom Jones Choreographer: Agnes de
Mille Produced by: David Merrick (The Abominable Showman)

Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

-Collab in 1950 wrote music and lyrics together protgs of Frank Loesser
Wrote Pajama Game and Damn Yankees
Pajama Game
Music and lyrics: Richard Adler & Jerry Ross Book: George Abbott Director:
George Abbott and Jerome Robbins - Choreography: Bob Fosse Producer:
Hal Prince Starring: John Raitt and Carol Haney Tony: Best musical,
actress, choreography.
Damn Yankees
Music and lyrics: Richard Adler & Jerry Ross Book: George Abbott Director:
George Abbott - Choreography: Bob Fosse Producer: Hal Prince Starring:
Gwen Verdon Tony: Best musical, actor, actress, featured actor,
chorography, conductor, musical director.
Gwen Verdon:
Born into the industry. Mother put her in dance to strengthen her legs. Big
break when she was cast a Claudine in Can-Can for which she won a Tony.
Followed by Damn Yankees, New Girl in Town, and Redhead. All winning
Tonys. Sweet Charity, Chicago.
Jerry Bock and Sherry Harnick
Met in 1956. Collaborated in 1958 with The Body Beautiful show flopped
but Hal Prince and George Abbot liked them. Hired them to write musical
biography of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Most important musical partnership of
the 60s.
Fiorello! (1959)
Music and Lyrics: Bock and Harnick Book: Jerome Weidman and George
Abbott Choreographer: Peter Gennaro Producer: Harold Prince and Robert
E. Griffith
*PULITZER PRIZE WINNER*
She Loves Me (1963)

Music and Lyrics: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick Book: Joe Masteroff
Director: Harold Prince Musical Staging: Carol Haney Producer: Hal Prince
Tony: Best Featured Actor
Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
Music & Lyrics: Bock and Harnick Book: Joseph Stein based on the stories
by Sholom Aleichem Director & choreographer: Jerome Robbins Producer:
Hal Prince Starring: Zero Mostel, Bea Arthur
The Apple Tree
Music and Lyrics and Book: Bock and Harnick Director: Mike Nichols
Choreography: Lee Theodore Tony: Actress
John Kander and Fred Eb- Composer & Lyricist
Broadway Debut* Flora, The Red Menace (1965)
Directed by George Abbott Produced: Harold Prince Starring Liza Minnelli
TONY
CABARET: (1966) Broadhurst 1165v performances, Music/Lyrics: Kander
and Ebb Book: Joe Masteroff Produced by Harold Prince Choreographed
by Ron Field (Fosse did the movie) Cast: Joel Grey
Chicago: (1975) 46th Street Theatre 936 performances - Music and Lyrics:
Kander and Ebb Book: Ebb and Fosse Directed: Bob Fosse
Choreographed: Bob Fosse Cast: Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach,
and Graciela Daniele.
Kiss of the Spider Woman: (1993) Broadhurst 906 Performance Music
and Lyrics: Kander and Ebb Book: Terrance McNally Directed: Hal Prince
Choreographed: Vincent Paterson Cast: Chita Rivera, Brent Carver (Parade)
7 Tony awards.
Steel Pier (1997) Choreography: Susan Stroman - Curtains (2007) - The
Scottsboro Boys Dir./Choreo: Susan Stroman - (2010) The Visit Dir/Choreo:
John Doyle, Graciela Daniele (2015)
Stephen Sondheim: b. 1930
Saturday Night: Sondheims first musical.
Wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy.
Forum: 1962 Alvin Theater Music & Lyrics: Sondheim Book: Burt
Shevelove & Larry Gelbart Director: George Abbot Choreographer: Jack

Cole Producer: Hal Prince Cast: Zero Mastel 7 Tony Nominations Won
Musical, Author, Actor, Featured Actor, Producer
Anyone Can Whistle: 1964 Majestic Theatre Music/Lyrics: Sondheim
Book/Director:
Arthur Laurents Choreographer: Herbert Ross Cast: Angela Lansbury
Do I Hear a Waltz: 1965 Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents Director: John Dexter Choreography: Herbert Ross
Producer: Rodgers
Company: 1970 Alvin Theatre Music/Lyrics: Sondheim Book: George
Furth Director/Producer: Harold Prince Choreographer: Michael Bennett
Cast: Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnie, Larry Kent 12 Tony Nominations
FIRST MUSIC AND LYRICS TONY!!!!
Follies: 1971 Winter Garden Theater Music/Lyrics: Sondheim Book:
James Golden Directors: Hal Prince & Michael Bennett Choreo: Michael
Bennett Producer: Hal Prince
A Little Night Music: 1973 Shubert Theater Music/Lyrics: Sondheim
Book: Hugh Wheeler Director/Producer: Hal Prince Choreographer: Patricia
Birch
Pacific Overtures: 1976 Winter Garden Music & Lyrics: Stephen
Sondheim Book: John Weidman Director/Producer: Hal Prince
Choreographer: Patricia Birch
Sweeney Todd: 1979 Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Hugh
Wheeler Director: Hal Prince Choreographer: Larry Fuller Producers:
Richard Bar, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer Notable Cast: Angela
Lansbury, Len Cariou, Victor Garber
Merrily We Roll Along: 1981 Alvin Theatre 16 Performances
Music/Lyrics: Sondheim Book George Furth Director: Hal Prince
Choreographer: Larry Fuller Producer: Hal Prince Notable Cast: Jason
Alexander, Liz Calloway (bway debut), Tanya Pinkins Based on a play by
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Sunday in the Park with George: 1984 Booth Theatre Music/Lyrics:
Sondheim Director: James Lapine Producers: Shubert Organization and
Emmanuel Azenburg Notable Cast: Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin

Into the Woods: 1987 Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: James

Lapine Cast: Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zein
Assassins: 1990 (off-bway) Playwrights Horizons Book: John Weidman
Director: Jerry Zaks Cast: Victor Garber, Debra Monk
Passion: 1994 Plymouth Theatre 280 performances - Book: James Lapine
Producers: Shubert Organization Cast: Donna Murphy, Marin Mazzie
Assassins: ON BROADWAY 2004 Studio 54 Book: John Weidman
Director: Joe Mantello Producer: Roundabout
The Frogs: 2004 92 performances Adapted by: Burt Shevelove
Director/Choreo: Susan Stroman Cast: Nathan Lane
Roadshow: (off-bway) 2008 The Public Book: John Weidman Director:
John Doyle

Jerry Herman- (b. 1931)

-Went to Parsons School of Design Left Parsons for U of Miami for Theatre
-First Broadway show: Milk and Honey (1961)
Hello, Dolly!- 1964 2844 Performances St. James Theatre - Musical and
Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Michael Stewart Director/Choreographer:
Gower Champion Producer: David Merrick Cast: Carol Channing
MAME- (1966) 1508 Performances Winter Garden Music and Lyrics: Jerry
Herman Book: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Director: Gene Saks
Choreographer: Onna White Cast: Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur
Dear World- (1969) 132 Performances Music and Lyrics: Jerry Herman
Book: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Director/Choreographer: Joe
Layton Cast: Angela Lansbury
Mack and Mabel- (1974) 66 Performances Majestic Theatre Music and
Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Michael Stewart Director/Choreographer:
Gower Champion Cast: Bernadette Peters, Robert Preston

La Cage Aux Follies- (1983) 1761 Performances Palace Theatre Music

and Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Harvey Fierstein Director: Arthur Laurents
Choreographer: Scott Salmon Cast: George Hearn
Cy Coleman
-Teamed up with lyricist Carolyn Leigh for, Witchcraft
-First Broadway show w/ Carolyn, called Wildcat.
- Wrote Little Me Director/Choreographer: Bob Fosse
Sweet Charity- (1966) Palace Theatre 608 Performances Music: Cy
Coleman Book: Neil Simon Conceived/Directed/Choreographed: Bob Fosse
Cast: Gwen Verdon
Seesaw- (1973) Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Director/Choreographer: Michael
Bennett Cast: Tommy Tune Book: Neil Simon
I Love My Wife- (1977) Ethel Barrymore Theater 857 Performances
Lyrics and Book: Michael Stewart Choreographer: Onna White Cast:
Joanna Gleason
On the Twentieth Century- (1978) St. James Theatre 449 Performances
- Book & Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolf Green Director: Hal Prince
Choreographer: Larry Fuller Cast: John Cullum, Madeline Kahn
Barnum- (1980) St. James Theatre 854 Performances Lyrics: Michael
Stewart Book: Mark Bramble Director: Joe Layton Cast: Glenn Close,
Terrance Mann
City of Angels- (1989) Virginia Theatre 879 performances Lyrics David
Zippel Book: Larry Gelbart Cast: Randy Graff, Rachel York
The Will Rogers Follies- Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolf Green Book:
Peter Stone Director/ Choreographer: Tommy Tune Cast: Cady Huffman

The Life- (1997) Lyrics: Ira Glasman Book: David Newman, Cy Coleman,
Ira Glasman Director: Michael Blakemore Choreographer: Joey McKneely
Cast: Lillias White
Stephen Schwartz- Born in NYC (1948) Studied piano at Julliard while in
HS Carnegie Mellon BFA in Drama 1971 OFF Broadway Godspell Won 2
Grammy awards Day By Day reached #13 on Billboards singles in 1972
Pippin- (1972) Imperial Theater - Minskoff Theater 1944 Performances
M&L: Stephen Schwartz Book: Roger O. Hinson Director/Choreographer:
Bob Fosse Notable Cast: Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking
The Magic Show- (1974) Cort Theatre 1920 Performances M&L:
Stephen Schwartz Book: Bob Randall Director/Choreographer: Grover Dale
Godspell- (1976) Broadhurst/Plymouth/Ambassador Theatre 527
Performances M&L: Stephen Schwartz Conceiver/Director: John-Michael
Tebelak Based on The Gospel; According to St. Matthew
Working- (1978) 46th Street Theatre 24 Performances Based on book by
Studs Terkel Book adapted by Stephen Schwartz Director: Stephen
Schwartz Staging: Onna White Spanish Lyrics: Graciela Daniele Cast:
Patti Lupone
Children of Eden- Originally developed as a Royal Shakespeare company
workshop Had a short run in Londons West End Has never been produced
on Broadway Done at many regional theaters and schools
The Bakers Wife- Never produced on Broadway Book: Joseph Stein
1976 Toured US (Patti Lupone, Paul Sorvino) 1989 The West End 1997

Goodspeed 2005 Papermill (Alice Ripley, Max Von Essen) 2007 York
Theatre (reading)
DISNEY/DREAMWORKS:
Pocahontas: (1995) Lyrics The Hunchback of Norte Dame (1996) Lyrics
Prince of Egypt (1998) Music & Lyrics Enchanted (2007) Lyrics
Wicked- (2003) Gershwin Theatre 5165 performances Based on the
novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by
Gregory Maguire Book: Winnie Holzman M&L: Stephen Schwartz
Director: Joe Mantello Choreography: Wayne Cilento Cast: Idina Menzel,
Kristen Chenoweth, Norbert Leo Butz, Joel Grey, Edin Espinoza
Godspell (2011) Circle in the Square Theatre 264 Performances
Pippin- (2013) Music Box Theatre 709 Performances Director: Diane
Paulus Choreography: Chet Walker (in the style of Bob Fosse)