Betty Smith

On stage 2 productions, 1 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on2 works

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “A New Musical”

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In the literature7 passages

• I am going to write the book with Betty Smith. 172 And I am going to try to get your old friend, Jerry Robbins, to do the dance, and beyond that, there are no thoughts at the present moment.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 172 Betty Smith (1896–1972) was the author of the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . She collaborated with George Abbott on the stage adaptation.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Librettists George Abbott and Betty Smith weren’t able to satisfactorily blend the stories, and so the tragic musical drama and the musical comedy played against one another. Worse, Cissy’s story overwhelmed the evening, due in part to the delightful and galvanic performance by Shirley Booth and her carefree songs and comic situations. Ka…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• This powerful scene was written by Betty Smith (author of the original novel) and George Abbott. George Abbott! The farce master. The same George Abbott who gave us Boy Meets Girl and Three Men on a Horse and On Your Toes and The Boys from Syracuse and High Button Shoes and Where’s Charley ? and Call Me Madam … The same George Abbott who,…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
• Abbott, George and Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper, New York, 1951).ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
• A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN; Music, Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics, Dorothy Fields; Book, Betty Smith, George Abbott; Director, Etel Billig CAST: Judy McLaughlin, Pete Thelen, Sara Baur, Phil Hollingsworth, Chritina Mild, Siobhan Sullivan, Carrie Corrigan, Kari Ball, David G. Peryam, Chris McNamara, Sam Nykaza-Jones, A1 Becker, Bobby Schmidttheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1996-97 Season, v. 53 (Willis).txt

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