Bob Martin

On stage 2 productions

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Also credited on4 works

The Prom
Elf
Boop! The Musical
Smash

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In the literature8 passages

• Bob Martin, Don McKellar and Lisa Lambert provided invaluable information on the development of The Drowsy Chaperone .ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• In 2006 The Drowsy Chaperone , with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar , and music and lyrics by Greg Morrison and Lisa Lambert , opened at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway, where it broke box office records after winning five Tony Awards (including best book and best score.) The musical, in which a lonely divorcee sits in his apartment l…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Bob Martin attended Lawrence Park Collegiate (folk singer Neil Young’s alma mater) with two of his future collaborators, Lisa Lambert and Don McKellar . Even then they dreamed up mock musicals. The late Marian Grudeff (1927-2006), a veteran of Spring Thaw who co-wrote the score for the Broadway musical Baker Street with Ray Jessell (1929-…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Co-author Bob Martin is a former artistic director of Second City , and co-creator of the superb TV mini-series Slings and Arrows , and Don McKellar is an actor, writer and film maker of some note in Canada. Through the character of the “Man In Chair”, it possesses that detached irony that has long been a trademark of Canadian humour. Alt…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• When The Drowsy Chaperone opened on Broadway, Bob Martin said “In terms of creating shows for Broadway, I would hope that Drowsy Chaperone shows that it is possible.” [321] I had hoped that Toronto would respond to all of this activity by getting a bee in its collective bonnet. Yet Toronto’s commercial theatres seem to have been in sleep…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• [311] Susan Dominus , “In The Drowsy Chaperone , Bob Martin ’s Birthday [sic] present Became His Broadway Debut”, New York Times , 30 April 2006.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.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 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 — book writer, actor — 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.