David Brooks

On stage 6 productions, 37 years

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In the literature8 passages

• 78 David Brooks (1915–99), American singer, actor, producer, and director. He directed Trouble in Tahiti .ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• During the tryout of The Girl in Pink Tights , David Brooks was replaced by David Atkinson. The two are sometimes (understandably) confused, even among theatre buffs. Brooks created leading roles in Bloomer Girl (1944) and Brigadoon (1947), and introduced the standard “Almost Like Being in Love” in the latter. Atkinson also emerged during…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Celeste Holm, David Brooks, Dooley Wilson, Joan McCracken, Richard Huey, Margaret Douglass, Mabel Taliaferro, Matt Briggs, Herbert Rossebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: David Brooks, Marion Bell, Pamela Britton, Lee Sullivan, George Keane, James Mitchell, William Hansen, Elliott Sullivan, Helen Gallagher, Hayes Gordon, Lidija Franklinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• The fantasy is about two American tourists, Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas (David Brooks and George Keane), who stumble upon a mist-clouded Scottish town that, they eventually discover, reawakens only one day every hundred years. Tommy, who enjoys wandering through the heather on the hill with a local lass, Fiona MacLaren (Marion Bell),…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• McCracken, David Brooks and Margaret Douglass. Other hits were “Mexican Hayride” with Bobby Clark, June Havoc, Wilbur Evans and Paul Haakon; “Laffing Room Only” with Olsen and Johnson; and “On the Town” with Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker, Cris Alexander, Sono Osato and John Battles. Beatrice Lillie, Bert Lahr, and Alicia Markov…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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