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Ernest H. Martin

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Book Writer 1919–1995 On stage 1921

Ernest Harold Martin (born Ernest Harold Markowitz; August 28, 1919 – May 7, 1995) was an American Broadway producer who wrote the book for a musical, owned a Broadway theater and produced motion pictures. He is known for the Broadway productions of Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as well as the films A Chorus Line (1985) and Cabaret (1972; nominated for ten Oscars).

On stage 1 production

1921 Good Morning Dearie Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 347 perf.

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Also credited on2 works

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Whoop-Up

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In the literature8 passages

  • Direction : George Abbott; Producers : Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin in association with Gwen Rickard; Choreography : George Ballanchine; Scenery and Costumes : David Ffolkes; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Edward Scottebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Cy Feuer; Producers : Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin; Choreography : Onna White; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Anna Hill Johnstone; Musical Direction : Stanley Lebowskyebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The 1962 Tony Award ceremony for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. From left to right: Ernest H. Martin, Cy Feuer, Robert Morse, Willie Gilbert, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tack Weinstock, Abe Burrows, Elliot Lawrence.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
  • He also had a new production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun under way for producers Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and to help him get it started he asked Will Mead, one of his replacement dancers for the 1965 national tour of Dolly!, to be his assistant. For the former dancer, now teaching deaf…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • “Mug shows” was the term Cy Feuer coined for this kind of musical, idealized in Guys and Dolls , which Feuer, with his longtime partner, Ernest H. Martin, produced. But R & H put on—and they used exactly these words—“family shows.” So Hammerstein’s Steinbeck lacked the novelist’s earthy anarchism, the magnificent languor of California mañ…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • choreographed by Michael Kidd produced by Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin starring Julie Harris, Peter L. Marshall, and Charles Nelson Reilly | (replacing Victor Spinetti)theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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