Also credited on7 works
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival)
Hallelujah, Baby!
Happy New Year
New Faces Of 1952
The Frogs
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
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- Burt Shevelove, who co-authored the book for Forum , and Arthur Laurents, the librettist for the other four Sondheim shows staged between 1957 and 1965, also gave Sondheim lessons that would last long after he moved on to other creative partnerships. From Shevelove, Sondheim learned “that clarity of language was as important as well as cl…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- But that is not always the case. When Stephen Sondheim was writing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the songs weren’t working at all. Burt Shevelove, the librettist, told him there were other ways of writing songs than those that develop people and story. Sondheim recalls, ‘Burt said, “You must use songs in a different way…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Direction : Burt Shevelove; Producer : The New York City Center Light Opera Company (William Hammerstein, General Director); Choreography : Ray Harrison (based on the original dances by Hanya Holm); Scenery : Watson Barratt; Costumes : Alvin Colt; Lighting ; Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Frederick Dvonchebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Direction : Richard Baldridge (production supervised by Burt Shevelove); Producer : The New York City Center Light Opera Company (Jean Dalrymple, Director); Choreography : John Heawood; Scenery : Watson Barratt; Costumes : Robert Fletcher; Lighting : Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Miles Morganebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Having already written a musical at Yale inspired by the farcical plays of Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC-184 BC), Burt Shevelove got together with Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim to give Broadway a taste of what once convulsed Roman audiences. To come up with a suitable script — which would also adhere to the classic unities of time, p…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Prior to Griffith's death, Prince had read a script called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. The piece had had a long history before it was a product for the American Musical Theatre. Earlier, before World War II, while he was in his freshman year in the Department of Drama at Yal…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
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