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Dick Scanlan

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ComposerLyricistBook Writer b. 1961

Dick Scanlan (born 1960) is an American writer, director, and actor.

Also credited on2 works

Everyday Rapture
Thoroughly Modern Millie

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

  • He contracted AIDS in the late 1980s, when such a fate usually meant a death sentence. But in an article for The Advocate in 2002, Dick Scanlan said, “It is absolutely true that your outlook adds to your longevity. I chose to keep investing in my future—even when I had no future.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • What Foster brought to the show convinced the creators that Sutton Foster would have to be their new leading lady. Lyricist Dick Scanlan and composer Jeanine Tesori were so inspired that they were moved to write “Gimme, Gimme” an eleven-o’clock number to show case Foster’s abilities. The former understudy came through there, too.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Book: Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan; original story & screenplay by Richard Morris for Universal Pictures Filmebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Jeanine Tesori; new lyrics by Dick Scanlan. Pictured is Sutton Foster as Millie.ebooks/Unknown/Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, The - Unknown.txt
  • In addition to the well-known James Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn title song, the new composing team of Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan gave her a fervent love song, "Gimme, Gimme," the torch), "Jimmy" (written with Jay Thompson), and a part of a super-fast patter song, "The Speed Test," with a melody borrowed from Gilbert & Sullivan.ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • (Clockwise from center) J.T. Cromwell, Dick Scanlan, Joe Joyce, David Drake in "Pageant" (Scott Humbert)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

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