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David Zippel

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Lyricist b. 1954

David Joel Zippel (born May 17, 1954) is an American musical theatre and film lyricist, composer, songwriter, director, and producer.

Also credited on4 works

City of Angels
Bad Cinderella
The Goodbye Girl
The Woman in White

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 literature8 passages

  • 22 . Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White (lyrics by David Zippel) ran nineteen months in London but only 108 performances in New York in 2004. Sondheim’s Road Show (formerly Bounce, Wise Guys , and Gold ), with a book by John Weidman, and directed and designed by John Doyle, played a two-month Off-Broadway engagement at the end of 2008.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • For City of Angels , Coleman once again took a chance with a comparative rookie. David Zippel’s résumé pretty much consisted of a few off-Broadway revues and a couple of songs for Barbara Cook, but he had had no Broadway experience. Coleman said, “David had published some songs with my publishing company, so I’d been watching his work for…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Marilyn—An American Fable was—with the exceptions of Reed’s gallant and touching performance and a song by Wally Harper and David Zippel called “Cold Hard Cash” interpolated in previews—completely without merit. But it is now treasured by Broadway camp collectors because it contained some of the most inane dialogue and lyrics ever heard o…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • However, in a show like City of Angels (1989), a crime thriller in a Raymond Chandler tone, the Cy Coleman–David Zippel score precisely mirrors the rufftuff lingo and wise-guy innuendo of Larry Gelbart’s book. Respecting the late-forties setting, a radio singing group cuts in with commentary numbers—“Ya Gotta Look Out For Yourself” and “S…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • The Woman in White (2004, lyrics by David Zippel, book by Charlotte Jones, ‘Freely adapted from the classic novel by Wilkie Collins’)ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • The only relatively new face, creatively, in City ofAngels was that of David Zippel, as lyricist. Zippel, 34, out of Easton, Pennsylvania, had a law degree from Harvard and a nascent career as a lyric writer for some well-received Off-Broadway revues, including It's Better With a Band in 1983 and Just So in 1985, along with his aforementi…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt

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