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Billy Goldenberg

Shows · Billy Goldenberg

Composer 1936–2020

William Leon Goldenberg (February 10, 1936 – August 3, 2020) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for his work on television and film.

Also credited on1 work

Ballroom

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature3 passages

  • The score was skimpy—only eleven songs, although composer Billy Goldenberg also wrote three instrumentals. A bigger problem was that more than six of the songs were given to insignificant characters. The script tells us that they were Marlene and Nathan, but no one ever called them by their names. They were the band singers.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • BALLROOM Book, Jerome Kass; Music, Billy Goldenberg; Lyrics, Alan and Marilyn Bergman; Direction and Choreography, Michael Bennett; Co-Choreographer, Bob Avian; Assistant to Choreographers, T. Michael Reed; Scenery, Robin Wagner; Costume Design, Theoni V. Aldredge; Lighting, Tharon Musser; Orchestrations, Jonathan Tunich; Sound, Otts Mund…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • BEA ARTHUR ON BROADWAY: JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS By Bea Arthur and Billy Goldenberg, in collaboration with Charles Randolph Wright; Sets, Ray Klausen; Lighting and Sound, Matt Berman; Producers, Daryl Roth, M. Beverly Bartner, and USA Ostar Theatricals; Production Consultants, Mark Waldrop and Richard Maltby Jr.; Press, Barlow-Hartman Public…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2001-02 Season, v. 58 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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