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Edward Padula

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Director 1916–2001

Edward Padula (January 24, 1916 – November 1, 2001) was an American theatre producer, stage manager, and occasional director and writer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Padula began his theatrical career by directing the book for the early Lerner and Loewe collaboration The Day Before Spring in 1945. A full decade passed before he returned to Broadway as a stage manager, working on such productions as No Time for Sergeants (1955), Rumple (1957), God and Kate Murphy, and Saratoga (1959). In 1958, Padula began to audition songwriting teams for a musical about American teenagers he hoped to produce. Lee Adams and Charles Strouse won the job on the third tryout, and Padula linked them with book writ…

Also credited on4 works

All American
Bajour
Bye Bye Birdie
The Day Before Spring

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In the literature8 passages

  • A Joyful Noise’ s producer was Edward Padula, who will always be known as the producer of Bye Bye Birdie. But All-American and Bajour followed. What would happen with this show, based on Borden Deal’s novel The Insolent Breed, which concerned three generations of itinerant country musicians? (One makes it big, only to return to his roots.…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • “Michael could have got a lot more votes for A Joyful Noise if more people had seen the show,” said Raitt. “But crazy Edward Padula closed it before Christmas week–the best week in show business. Afterward, I asked him why, and he said he needed $3,000 to keep it open and he didn’t have it. I told him, ‘I would have given you that $3,000!…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • “Put on a Happy Face” from Bye Bye Birdie. With Dick Van Dyke, Sharon Lerit, and Original Broadway Cast. Dir. and chor. Gower Champion. Prod. Edward Padula. The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, WCBS, New York, 13 Nov. 1960.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • 65 Edward Padula (1916–2001) had a long career on Broadway that included Seventh Heaven (1955, assistant director), Rumple (1957, stage manager), Bye Bye Birdie (1960, producer), and All American (1962, producer).ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
  • book by Edward Padula (and Dore Schary, billing removed) based on the 1959 novel The Insolent Breed by Borden Deal directed by Edward Padula Guth Michael Bennett, uncredited; replacing Dore Schary, who replaced Ben Shaktman)theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • choreographed by Michael Bennett produced by Edward Padula and Slade Brown i in association on with. _ Sid Bernsteintheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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