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Bernard Gersten

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Composer 1923–2020

Bernard Gersten (January 30, 1923 – April 27, 2020) was an American theatrical producer. Beginning in the 1960s through the early 2000s, Gersten played a major role in shaping American drama and musical theatre. From 1960 to 1978, Gersten worked with Joseph Papp as associate producer at the New York Shakespeare Festival. After leaving the NYSF, he served as executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater from 1985 until he retired in 2013, where (with Gregory Mosher, then with Andre Bishop) he oversaw over 150 productions. In addition to receiving the Antoinette Perry Award (The "Tony Award") for Lifetime Achievement in 2013, Gersten was the recipient of fifteen Tony Awards for his productions.…

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South Pacific

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  • But then André Bishop and Bernard Gersten, respectively the artistic director and executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, had an idea. They approached Theodore S. Chapin, R&H’s president and executive director, and said the magic words that caught his eye, ear, and soul. Lincoln Center Theater would mount the show with an orchestra…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • BERNARD GERSTEN is the executive producer at Lincoln Center and was associate producer of the New York Public Theater during the Joseph Papp years.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • BERNARD GERSTEN: One of my jobs at the Public Theater was taking care of Michael, because Joe Papp was never close to A Chorus Line . When it seemed to have the potential to be a successful Broadway show, his interest stopped. He didn’t want to appear to be involved with what was going to be a commercial hit. However, before A Chorus Line…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • BERNARD GERSTEN: There are all those famous stories of judgment run amok. How could some plays so inferior have been put on? How could somebody have turned down My Fair Lady ? How could Oklahoma! have almost closed in Boston?ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • BERNARD GERSTEN: There are really two Broadways. There is the Broadway of the long-running imports like Cats and Les Miz and the American revivals like Damn Yankees and Forum . And there is the other Broadway: the not-for-profit theater, the Royale and Tony Randall’s National Actors Theater, the Roundabout, Lincoln Center Theater. The enc…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • Producer: Lincoln Center Theatre under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten, by arrangement with The Royal National Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organizationebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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