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Gail Parent

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Book Writer b. 1940

Gail Parent (born August 12, 1940) is an American television screenwriter, producer, and author.

Also credited on1 work

Lorelei

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature4 passages

  • David Shire, Richard Maltby, Jr, Murray Grand, Paul Nassau, Hal Hackady, Alonzo Levister, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent, Gene P. Bissell, Carl Friberg, Fred Hellerman,theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • McWhinney, Michael Cohen, Tony Geiss, and Sidney Shaw sketches by Ronny Graham, Peter De Vries, William F. Brown, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent, Jack Sharkey, Robert Klein, and Normantheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • LORELEI Book, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent; Music, Jule Styne; Lyrics, Betty Comden, Adolph Green; Based on "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Book by Anita Loos, Joseph Fields; Music, Jule Styne; Lyncs, Leo Robin; Staged by Joe Layton; Assistant Director, Evelyn Russell; Scenery, John Conklin; Costumes, Alvin Colt; Lighting, John Gleason; Miss…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
  • "Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes" Book, Anita Loos, Joseph Fields; New Book, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent; Music, Jule Styne; Lyrics, Leo Robin; New Music, Jule Styne; New Lyrics, Betty Comden, Adolph Green; Director, Robert Moore; Choreography, Ernest O. Flatt; Scenery, John Conklin; Cos-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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