Also credited on1 work
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 literature5 passages
- Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times praised George Kleinsinger’s score of “humor, drollery, street tunes and juke-box pandemonium,” and singled out Kitt and Bracken’s “exuberantly” sung “Flotsam and Jetsam,” which was “excellent.” He also liked the “ferocious scramble” of the “Cat and Dog Ballet” and the “beautifully designed’ “Vacant L…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Joe Darion and Mel Brooks wrote the book for a musical version of Marquis’ stories called Shinbone Alley (Broadway; Apr. 13, ’57; 49), and George Kleinsinger, a classical composer whose most successful pieces were children’s stories for narrator and orchestra like “Tubby the Tuba,” wrote the music. The musical had an unusual history. Like…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- Brooks; Music, George Kleinsinger; Lyrics, Joe Darion; Based on stories by Don Marquis; Director, Robert Elston; Choreography, Kathy-Jo Hubner; Musical Director, Jim Ferrario; Set, Terry Noble,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt
- Hall, Andrew Barrett & Chris Burney in association with Townhouse Communications and Howard Danziger present: archy & mehitabel; Music, George Kleinsinger; Lyrics, Joe Darion; Book, Mr. Darion, Mel Brooks; Based on the stories of Don Marquis; Director, Kirsten Sanderson; Choreography, Michael Lichtefeld; Musical Directors, Albin Konopka,…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt
- for his lyrics for Shinbone Alley (1957), a musical adaptation of Don Marquis’ archy & mehitabel stories with music by George Kleinsinger. But recognition would not come until 1965 with Man of La Mancha. There is no question that some of Darion’s lyrics for this popular musical have aged poorly; the whole show has as much a sixties mental…theatre-pdfs/Word Crazy-Broadway Lyricists (Hischak).txt
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- 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 — composer — 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.