Also credited on2 works
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In the literature4 passages
- Grind had begun its long journey toward a life on Broadway in 1975 when writer Fay Kanin was approached by a pair of producers from Universal Studios to prepare a screenplay about a bi-racial burlesque house in 1930s Chicago. Kanin prepared the script but the project never materialized. Toward the end of 1982, Kanin approached Prince, an…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
- Original Broadway book musicals referenced in this chapter: Grind (opened April 1985 at the Mark Hellinger Theater), book by Fay Kanin, music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh; Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (opened April 1985 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater), book by William Hauptman, music and lyrics by Roger Mill…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- Instead, it became a very specific story about a burlesque house and its goings on. That is what Fay Kanin had written as a movie originally—but they didn’t make the movie, and I wanted to tear the material apart. I didn’t persist. I might have failed, but that’s what I should have done.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
- GRIND Music by Lam Grossman; Lyrics, Ellen Fitzhugh; Book. Fay Kanin: Direccor. Harold Prince; Choreographer. Lester Wilson: Presented by Kenneth D Greenblatl. Nederiander. John J Pomerantz. Mary Lea Johnson. Martin Richards. James Harold Prince. Michael Frazier in association with Susan Madden Samson and Jonathan Farkas; Scenery, Clarke…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
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