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Edwin Lester

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Director 1857–1935

Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (14 May 1857 – 1 March 1935) was an English writer. His best-known work is Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation which is one of the earliest examples of the planetary romance sub-genre.

Also credited on1 work

Song of Norway

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  • Direction : Albert Marre; Producers : Charles Lederer (An Edwin Lester Production); Choreography : Jack Cole; Scenery and Costumes : Lemuel Ayers; Lighting : Peggy Clark; Musical Direction : Louis Adrianebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction and Choreography : Jerome Robbins (technical direction by Richard Rodda); Producers Richard Halliday (An Edwin Lester Production); Scenery : Peter Larkin; Costumes : Motley; Lighting : Peggy Clark; Musical Direction : Louis Adrianebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Albert Marre; Producers : The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association (Charles E. Ducommun, President, and Edwin Lester, General Director) and The San Francisco Civic Light Opera Association (Sydney G. Walton, President, and Edwin Lester, General Director); Choreography : Ernest Flatt; Scenery and Costumes : Rouben Ter-Arutu…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Song of Norway had its premiere a continent away from Broadway in July 1944, when it was presented by Edwin Lester’s Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera Association. Following in the tradition of Blossom Time, it offered a score based on themes by a classical composer combined with a biographical plot unencumbered by too much…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • 1491 (Los Angeles; Sept. 2, ’69; closed on the road), with a book by Willson and Richard Morris, who also directed, was another Edwin Lester–Civic Light Opera epic. It was a speculation on the events leading up to Christopher Columbus’s acquiring three ships and sailing to the Indies, spiced up with a triangle between Columbus (John Cullu…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Ya got trouble, Meredith Willson, with this one. Yet another Edwin Lester folly.ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

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