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Forman Brown

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Lyricist 1901–1996

Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 – January 10, 1996) was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind Turnabout Theatre. He was born in Otsego, Michigan. He briefly taught at North Carolina State College, followed by an extensive tour of Europe. Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan (class of 1922), opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in 1941 (the Turnabout Theater) that attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, e.g., Greta Garbo, Colleen Moore, Marie Dressler, Mary Pickford and…

Also credited on2 works

Home Sweet Homer
Music in My Heart

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  • But the failures of Song without Words and Music in My Heart didn’t prevent another attempt to depict Tchaikovsky’s life on the stage. And so Forman Brown (lyrics), Patsy Ruth Miller (book), and Franz Steininger (musical adaptor, conductor, and now producer) revised their earlier material and presented The Lady from Paris . This time arou…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Musical adaptation by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Julius Bittner, Robert Wright and George Forrest; lyrics by Wright and Forrest; additional lyrics by Forman Brown; book by Jerome Chodorov, based on the version by Moss Hart and Milton Lazarus; original book and lyrics by Alfred Willner, Heinz Reichert and Ernst Marischkaebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • lyrics by Charles Burr and Forman Brown. (eplacing rich Segal) : book by Roland Kibbee and Albert Marre (replacing Erich Segal) based ee the ninth-century B.C. epic poem The Odyssey by Homer “book and musical staging” by Albert Marretheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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