George Furth

On stage 3 productions, 12 years

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Also credited on6 works

Company
Company (2006 Revival)
Company (2021 Revival)
Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along (2023 Revival)
The Act

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In the literature8 passages

• Anthony had been acting professionally since he was quite young. In 1986–7, he was playing Freddy, the youngest of two sons, in George Furth’s family drama Precious Sons, at the Longacre Theater in New York. Anthony’s co-stars in the play were Judith Ivey and Ed Harris. I was psyched to be heading to the Big Apple to see Anthony perform a…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• The New York Times reported in the spring of 1969 that Prince would produce and direct a new musical titled Threes, based on several short plays by George Furth about a bachelor and his married friends. The score would be by Stephen Sondheim, the man who had originally sent Furth’s plays to Prince. The Times piece spoke of a new-style sho…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• I posted a couple of messages on the callboard. From George Furth, author of the book of Company: “The next thing is the best thing. Good luck with the next thing. Follies is beautiful. Warmly, with love, George Furth.” A letter from Louis Botto, an old-line theater journalist who was hoping to do a piece on Hal for Look magazine: “Dear H…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Company, with libretto by George Furth, succeeds in doing just that. Setting the scene at the apartment of the cast’s only bachelor, Bobby, the show’s quasi-hero, we discover the guests assembled, all couples, waiting for his entrance, preparing to surprise him on his arrival. In these few musical minutes we learn much about them and a gr…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• One has only to listen to Amy’s rapid-fire song ‘Getting Married Today’, one of Stephen Sondheim’s most intense, and read George Furth’s magnificent dialogue which leads to the ending printed above, to feel like a squeezed-out sponge. Additionally there is the suspense; for we don’t know if Amy and Paul did marry, or even if they are stil…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• In the theater, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along takes a compelling crack at altering the way we perceive traditional storytelling form by structuring the tale from its end to its beginning, later to earlier (as does the abovementioned Memento ). This complex effort by two great masters of the musical theater has…ebooks/Cuden, Steve/Beating Broadway_ How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations - Steve Cuden.txt

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