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Dorothea Freitag

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Dorothea Freitag was an American composer and dance arranger who provided original and dance-arrangement music for Broadway productions across several decades.

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Mask and Gown

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In the literature4 passages

  • The program of dances was performed by Irene Hawthorne, who also contributed the stories for the dances and the choreography; original music was by Dorothea Freitag; and the musical direction was by Hawthorne’s husband Kurt Adler (the production also included classical music). Hawthorne appeared in the 1944 Broadway musical Sing Out, Swee…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • with Gil Lamb, Lillian Hayman, Lucie Lancaster, Goldye ee / Dorothea Freitag, Joey Faye, Henrietta Jpcohene my Worth, |theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • Musical Director, Karen Gustafson; Dance Arrangements, Dorothea Freitag; Orchestrations, Bill Brohn; Sound, Jack Shearing; Assistant to Director, John Calvert; Assistant to Choreographer, Marianne Selbert; Hairstylist and Makeup, Patrik D. Moreton; Projuction Associate, Nan Pearlman; Associate Producers, Lee Minoff, Charlotte Dicker; Prod…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • chestrations, Jim Tyler; Vocal Arrangements, Cy Coleman, Stanley Lebowsky; Dance Music Coordinator, Dorothea Freitag; Associatetheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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