Debbie Allen

On stage 3 productions, 13 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

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Also credited on2 works

Carrie
Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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In the literature8 passages

• Finally, four years later, Rupert was back on Broadway as Oscar Lindquist. He’s the nervous wreck who meets (Sweet) Charity Hope Valentine (Debbie Allen) on a broken elevator, takes her to church (in a manner of speaking), falls in love with her, finds out about her past, still offers to marry her, but then rescinds the offer.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: Virginia Capers, Joe Morton, Ernestine Jackson, Ralph Carter, Debbie Allen, Robert Jackson, Ted Rossebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Debbie Allen, Michael Rupert, Bebe Neuwirth, Allison Williams, Lee Wilkof, Mark Jacoby, Irving Allen Leeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• When first announced, Grind was called A Century of Progress, and Debbie Allen and Kevin Kline were mentioned for the roles of Satin and Doyle. Larry Grossman, whose last show, A Doll’s Life, had been directed by Prince, wrote the music for what was to be his fourth consecutive Broadway flop, while Ellen Fitzhugh made her Broadway debut w…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• Neuwirth with Debbie Allen and Allison Williams just after bounding across a rooftop in Sweet Charity ’s “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This.” (Photofest)ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• 26. These characters, of course, are not racially specific. Debbie Allen played Sweet Charity in 1986. Thanks to David Savran for reminding me of that production.ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt

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