George Abbott

On stage 10 productions, 40 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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Also credited on29 works

The Pajama Game
Damn Yankees
Pal Joey
On the Town
On Your Toes
Fiorello!
Tenderloin
Jumbo
The Boys from Syracuse
Too Many Girls
Best Foot Forward
Billion Dollar Baby
High Button Shoes
Where’s Charley?
Call Me Madam
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “A New Musical”
Me and Juliet
Wonderful Town
New Girl In Town
Once Upon A Mattress
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Damn Yankees (1994 Revival)
Anya
Beat the Band
Fade Out— Fade In
Flora, the Red Menace
Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!
Music Is

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In the literature8 passages

• 2 George Abbott (1887–1995), American theater director, producer, and writer, who also had a successful career in Hollywood. By the time he collaborated with Bernstein, Robbins, Comden, and Green – all making their Broadway debuts – in On the Town in 1944, Abbott had already had decades of experience: first as an actor (his debut was as S…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 172 Betty Smith (1896–1972) was the author of the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . She collaborated with George Abbott on the stage adaptation.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 58 Wonderful Town had opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on 25 February 1953, directed by George Abbott. The show had a book and lyrics by Comden and Green, and a score (composed in four weeks) by Bernstein.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• In his autobiography, director and librettist George Abbott (1887–1995), who authored or co-authored books for an impressive array of musicals, including On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, Where’s Charley?, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees , and Fiorello! , discusses a review of a 1963 Off-Broadway revival direct…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Clearly, by the late 1940s Loesser was ready for Broadway. Drawing on the star status of Ray Bolger and the experience of George Abbott (the writer-director of Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes , also starring Bolger, and the director of Pal Joey ), fledgling producers Ernest Martin and Cy Feuer were prepared to take a calculated risk on Lo…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Dudar, Helen. “George Abbott Dusts Off a Broadway Classic.” New York Times , March 6, 1983, sec. 7, 30.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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