Albertina Rasch

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on12 works

The Three Musketeers
Three’s a Crowd
The Band Wagon
The Cat And The Fiddle
Face the Music
Flying Colors
Jubilee
Lady in the Dark
Lucky
Marinka
Show Girl
Very Warm for May

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In the literature4 passages

• Flying Colors had opened, not the shambles I had dreaded, nor the disgrace. Agnes de Mille had been relieved of her assignment and Albertina Rasch called to the rescue. !The uncompromising de Mille was also fired from her next Broadway musical, Hooray for What! Her 1942 ballet Rodeo, to a score by Aaron Copland, secured her one more chanc…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
• 467 performances. Music by Kurt Weill. Produced by Sam H. Harris. Book by Moss Hart. Book staged by Moss Hart and Hassard Short. Dances staged by Albertina Rasch. Orchestra under the direction of Maurice Abravanel. Orchestrations by Kurt Weill. Cast, starring Gertrudetheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• Just as George Gershwin has put jazz into syinphonic form so Albertina Rasch has adapted the traditional ballet of the old school to the entirely different demands of the musical comedy stage. “To the old form she has added the sparkle of a new life, crossing the ballet with something of the Charleston, the Tillers’ routine, and a little…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1927-08_11_8.txt
• Two of the colored chorus in the number Smokin’ Reefers for which the choreography was by Agnes de Mille and Warren Leonard, with additions by Albertina Rasch. (Photography by Sunami)theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1932-11_16_11.txt

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