Also credited on1 work
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In the literature6 passages
- If Henry VIII and Queen Victoria weren’t great subjects for musicals, Queen Nefertiti and King Akhnaton of Egypt were even less likely. Christopher Gore, author of the book and lyrics of Via Galactica, wrote Nefertiti (Chicago; Sept. 20, ’77; closed on the road), which told of Akhnaton’s unsuccessful attempt to take religion away from cor…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- For Via Galactica , Sir Peter Hall was coming from London to direct. Our composer Galt MacDermot had just had a huge hit with Hair . The librettist, Christopher Gore, later had a huge hit with Fame .ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
- I remember one night, a couple of us from the cast along with the writer, Christopher Gore, went to see a preview of Pippin . The lights came up on Ben Vereen as the narrator—and I just saw Christopher turn green. The narrator of our show was a black man as well. That was the turning point when the writers really decided: our story should…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
- Having come a cropper with his space-age fantasy Via Galactica (1972), Christopher Gore set back the calendar 3,300 years with a trumped-up triangle of old Egypt. This from Sherwin Goldman, Jack O’Brien, and musical director John DeMain, whose prior collaboration on the 1976 revival of Porgy and Bess proved far more memorable (except for…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- VIA GALACTICA Book, Chnstopher Gore and Judith Ross; Music, Gait MacDermot; Lyncs, Christopher Gore; Conceived and Directed by Peter Hall; Designed by John Bury; Lighting, Lloyd Burlingame; Associate to Mr. Hall, Geoffrey Cauley; Musical Director and Vocal Arrangements, Joyce Brown; Directonal Assistant, Patrick Libby; Orchestrations, Hor…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
- CHRISTOPHER GORE, 42, playwright, lyricists and screenwriter who was nominated for an Oscar for his Fame screenplay, died May 8, 1988 of cancer in Santa Monica, CA. For Broadway he wrote Via Galactica and Nefertiti. Survived by his mother and three brothers.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1987-88 Season, v. 44 (Willis).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.
- 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 — lyricist, 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.