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David Bennett

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ChoreographerOn stage 19021906

David Bennett was an American choreographer who staged the dances for 1920s Broadway musicals including Wildflower, Rose-Marie (1924), and Sunny (1925).

On stage 5 productions, 4 years

1902 The Wild Rose Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Adolph Neuberger 136 perf.
1903 The Blonde in Black Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Max Freeman 35 perf.
1903 The Office Boy Victoria Theatre · Original · directed by Al Holbrook 73 perf.
1905 Sergeant Brue Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Herbert Gresham 101 perf.
1906 The Little Cherub Criterion Theatre · Original · directed by Ben Teal 176 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Ida Gabrielle 3 productions
Violet Halls 2 productions
Leavitt James 2 productions
Lawrence Wheat 2 productions
Helga Howard 2 productions
Hazel Manchester 2 productions
Gilbert Clayton 2 productions
Frank Daniels 2 productions
Elba Kenny 2 productions
Blanche Ring 2 productions
Alfred Hickman 2 productions
Albert Hart 2 productions

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. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on5 works

Andre Charlot’s Revue Of 1924
Rose-Marie
Sunny
Lucky
Wildflower

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 literature3 passages

  • Choreographers: Julian Mitchell, David Bennett, Alexis Kosloff, John Tiller, Fred Astaireebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • An affair is a not unusual antidote to loneliness. In London, I embarked on one with David Bennett, a young gentleman farmer with an upper-class accent even though he was from Norfolk. He had very good manners and knew wines but even though he glowed with typical English coloring, Nora Kaye, the First Anglophile of the Western World, didn…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
  • BLACK, ALBERT HART, CAROLINE PERKINS, EDDIE FOY, IRENE BENTLEY, DAVID LYTHGOE, MARIE CAHILL, JUNIE McCREE, MARGUERITE CLARK, EVELYN NESBIT, DAVID BENNETT, in “THE WILD ROSE”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • 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 — choreographer — 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.

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