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Anthony Newley

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ComposerLyricistBook WriterDirectorActor 1931–1999 On stage 19561965

Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, director, comedian, singer, and composer. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Singles Chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been sung by a wide variety of singers including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, and Mariah Carey. With songwriting par…

On stage 3 productions, 9 years

1956 Cranks Bijou Theatre · Original · directed by John Cranko 40 perf.
1962 Stop the World- I Want to Get Off Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Anthony Newley 555 perf.
1965 The Roar of the Greasepaint The Smell of the Crowd Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Anthony Newley 232 perf.

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Worked with more than once2 names

Kay Cole 2 productions
Jill Choder 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • The first half of the show featured solos by Anthony Newley and Bernadette Peters, and a couple of sketches. Then we came to the second half.ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
  • Act One: “Who’s Who” (Company); “Adrift” (Company); “Tra La La”; “Where Has Tom Gone?” (Hugh Bryant, Anthony Newley, Annie Ross); “Cold Comfort” (Anthony Newley); “Lullaby”; “Broadminded”; “Waiting Room” (Company); “Bats” (Anthony Newley, Hugh Bryant, Gilbert Vernon); “Passacaglia” (Orchestra); “Boo to a Goose”; “Who Is It Always There?”…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Act Two: “Telephone Tango” (Anthony Newley, Annie Ross, Gilbert Vernon); “Don’t Let Him Know You” (Hugh Bryant, Anthony Newley, Annie Ross); “Sea Song” (Hugh Bryant); “L’apres-midi de Gilbert”; “Present for Gilbert”; “Elisabeth”; “(New) Blue” (Annie Ross); “I’m the Boy (You Should Say ‘Yes’ To”) (Anthony Newley, Annie Ross); “Metamorphosi…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Perhaps one sequence summed up the quirky and eccentric nature of the material. Walter Kerr in the New York Herald Tribune reported that as Anthony Newley began to sing a number, he suddenly noticed a package on the stage that was meant for someone else; but for all his efforts he just couldn’t concentrate on the song because of his obses…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Sunday, April 28, 1963. Anthony Newley enters the Hotel Americana’s Imperial Ballroom to see if he can win one, two, three, or four Tony Awards for his musical Stop the World—I Want to Get Off. In the seventeen-year history of the awards, no person has ever been eligible for so many different Tonys in a single season.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • While the Tonys didn’t recognize Anthony Newley as the 1962–1963 season’s MVP, we must. How many other artists have had a hand in the writing of the book and score of a Broadway musical, then starred in and directed it, too? The immediate answer is, of course, George M. Cohan; between 1901 (with The Governor’s Son ) and 1927 (via The Merr…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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