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Cyma Rubin

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ActorDirector 1926–2016

Cyme Rubin (born Cyma Saltzman, May 23, 1926) is an American producer, writer, and director. She is also the president of Business of Entertainment, Inc., a corporation she had created in 1991. She is a graduate of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering and The New York School of Interior Design. Her daughter is actress Loni Ackerman.

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  • He had the idea. She had the money. Eventually she decided that money should trump his idea, so she wrested the show away from him. The production that had proclaimed, “Cyma Rubin and Harry Rigby present…” suddenly said, “Pyxidium, Ltd, presents.” Pyxidium had one officer: Cyma Rubin.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Nanette’ s producers, Harry Rigby and Cyma Rubin, sundered their partnership. She went on to an Oh, Kay! that closed in tryout, but he came up with another knockout in Irene , in 1973, starring Debbie Reynolds (succeeded by Jane Powell, and both in their Broadway debuts). For some strange reason, John Gielgud was hired to direct; perhaps…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • [>] “made Bob such a nervous wreck”: Cyma Rubin, interview with the author, March 8, 2012.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
  • directed by Donald McKayle (replaced by we > choreographed by Donald McKayle produced by Cyma Rubintheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • Cyma Rubin confounded Broadway when her hopeless-sounding 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette—with Ruby Keeler, for gosh sake—was nottheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • directed by Burt Shevelove (replacing Busby Berkeley) _ choreographed by Donald Saddler (replacing Busby Bereley | assisted by Ted Cappy, Mary Ann Niles, and Bobby Van) produced by Pyxidium, Ltd. (Cyma Rubin, replacing the oe : billing “Cyma Rubin and Harry Rigby present”) -theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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