Also credited on4 works
A Chorus Line (2006 Revival)
Ballroom
Miss Saigon (2017 Revival)
Sunset Boulevard
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 literature8 passages
- Michael Bennett and Bob Avian continued working with the dancers through the week. From what I could see, it looked as if the main body of the complicated dances had been worked out ahead of time, but the choreography would change as the steps were being taught. The constant seemed to be “Who’s That Woman?”—partly, I realized, because Mic…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
- Alexis got through another performance, but her state of health was still a major concern. And she still didn’t do “Could I Leave You?” Bob Avian and the three stage managers worked with Sheila Smith on the stage, going over all of Phyllis’s blocking and musical staging until 1:30 in the morning.ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
- Michael and Bob Avian began taking Yvonne through some basic staging; they would resume working with her at the start of rehearsals on Friday.ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
- A Chorus Line enriched Hamlisch, Kirkwood, Dante, Kleban, and Bob Avian, but especially Michael Bennett. Hollywood smelled loot and became interested. Who could have guessed it would take ten years to make a flop movie of the smash-hit musical that producer Stuart Ostrow deemed “the first landmark musical since Hair in 1968, and possibly…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- Some in the company thought Barbra seemed “a little too cocky” after the nominations came out; others, such as recently hired swing boy Bob Avian, felt nothing but pride in their leading lady. But there was no denying that Barbra called the shots now; with Robbins off to work on Fiddler on the Roof and Stark mostly in Los Angeles, it was…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
- A few years later when Michael Bennett was choreographing a big industrial show in New York, Bob Avian, his assistant, would complain about me saying, “That girl is driving me crazy. She’s not doing it like everyone else.” Michael just said, “It’s okay, leave her alone.” This would come back to haunt us, but in a creative way, when it bec…ebooks/McKechnie, Donna/Time Steps - Donna McKechnie & Greg Lawrence.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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