David Shaw

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on2 works

Redhead
Tovarich

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In the literature8 passages

• True, its bookwriter David Shaw was one of the authors of the Tony-winning Redhead, but he was the last billed of the four bookwriters. Most people assumed that the heavy lifting in Redhead was accomplished by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, who had originated the project. (And who was Redhead’ s other bookwriter? Sidney Sheldon. Yes, that Si…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• I have no idea how I won. It is a roller coaster. I just remember having fun, and I remember my agent at the time, David Shaw, said, “It will never happen this way again. It will happen, but in different ways. So you need to remember it, and you need to enjoy.” Best advice because I did. I just had fun. I didn’t worry. It was amazing. I r…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• For dinner parties, Fosse and Verdon appeared together. At David Shaw’s house in Amagansett, they met Paddy Chayefsky, Bronx-born mensch of the proletariat, playwright lion of television’s golden age, and Oscar-winning screenwriter of Marty. His titanic intellect triggered Fosse’s clam mechanism, and Fosse retreated to the back row of his…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• He needed help. In May 1965 he approached a friend of his, writer David Shaw, whose ex-wife had suggested Nights of Cabiria in the first place; he went to Abe Burrows; he tried Hugh Wheeler. Wheeler rewrote the first seven scenes before admitting he wasn’t a good match for the material, and Fosse called off the search. Better to write the…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• An estimated five hundred people came to Riverside Chapel—Kazan, Mike Nichols, Comden and Green, David Shaw, Doctorow, Vonnegut, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, David Picker, Lionel Larner, Peter Stone, screenwriter of Sweet Charity —so many of them faces from Fosse’s life that the gathering must have looked to him a little like his own funer…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• [>] She suggested David Shaw: Gwen Verdon interview, Dance in America, WNET archives, September 6, 1989.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.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 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 — 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.