Also credited on1 work
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
- Britten composed a number of classic operas, including Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951), and Death in Venice (1973). One of his earliest works is the richly melodic and innovative Paul Bunyan , which had its world premiere on May 5, 1941, at Brander Matthews Hall at Columbia University (the libretto was by W. H. Auden). As mentioned…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Subplot. To Skyscraper and Her First Roman, which had none, can be added Billy (Billy Budd by Herman Melville), House of Flowers (Truman Capote, an original), Coco (based on the life of Coco Chanel. Yes, I know there is a young couple, but they have no plot and are made of tissue paper, I Can Get It forYou Wholesale (based on Jerome Weidm…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- It may seem foolish at the outset to dwell on a Broadway musical that lasted for a single performance in 1969, but Billy Budd as a musical show failure offers a unique opportunity for discussion here since the novelette by Herman Melville is a classic, and eighteen years before the Broadway musical it was successfully treated as a play on…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Simply told, Claggart "has it in" for Budd, who is adored by everyone else. As the result of a small accident (Budd's spilling a bowl of soup) Claggart orders him to appear before CaptainVere. At the confrontation, Claggart accuses Budd of plotting an insurrection among the members of the crew. Billy, so angry that he is unable to speak,…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- In 1951 coincidentally there appeared on Broadway a dramatized version by Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman called Billy Budd and in London an opera by Benjamin Britten, with libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier. Both were well received. In the least successful of these three versions the Broadway musical everyone is two-dimensional.…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- But could he do What Makes Sammy Run?, the musical version of Budd Schulberg’s famous 1941 debut novel? It wouldn’t be an easy role. The notorious Sammy Glick starts out as a lowly copy boy in a newspaper office but soon makes shady deals, blames others, betrays lovers, and causes a friend to commit suicide—all to get to the top in Hollyw…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.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.
- Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
- Any biography.
- 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 — 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.