Bruce Vilanch

On stage 2 productions, 24 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

Also credited on2 works

Almost Famous
Platinum

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

• One night, I remember walking around Times Square and I walked by the Mark Hellinger, where Platinum was about to start playing. Bruce Vilanch, who wrote the book, was outside, and we started chatting about the show. Then he asked me, “Would you like to come in and watch some of our tech rehearsal?”ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• I had a lot of fun experiences like that when I was a young kid, a student in the city. I’ve actually never seen Bruce Vilanch since! I’ve never had the opportunity to work with him. But I realized early on that so much of this was about contacts. About knowing people your age and also knowing people older. Back then, you could really sta…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• razzmatazz staging and some exquisitely conceived performances. The book by Will Holt and Bruce Vilanch, based on an original—it says in the playbill—idea by Holt, could give libraries a bad name. We have lines such as: “For Goodness sake, have respect for a generation other than your own.” Right on! Nor is the music anything to cheer for…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• A New Musical ALEXIS SMITH PLATINUM WILL HOLT and GARY WILLIAM WILL BRUCE VILANCH FRIEDMAN HOLT RICHARD |COX bare tir oetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• AN EVENING WITH DIANA ROSS Director, Joe Layton; Musical Director, Gil Askey; Special Material, Bill Goldenberg, Bill Dyer; Additional Material, Bruce Vilanch;theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
• PLATINUM Book, Will Holt, Bruce Vilanch; Music, Gary William Friedman; Lyrics, Will Holt; Based on an original idea by Will Holt; Directedtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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