George Roy Hill

On stage 2 productions

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Worked with more than once5 names

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Also credited on2 works

Greenwillow
Thoroughly Modern Millie

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In the literature2 passages

• George Roy Hill adjudged Tony’s singing “remarkably good. It didn’t have the timbre of a real Broadway voice, but it didn’t have the hard edge. It had a quality of its own.” Alas, that quality was too specialized or offbeat for the time, and poor word of mouth hurt Greenwillow at the box office. Advance ticket sales were enough to keep th…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• It was a show of firsts: Anthony Perkins made his musical theatre debut as Gideon, and to accommodate the star, George Roy Hill, who had directed Perkins in Look Homeward, Angel, was hired to direct his first musical. Though Loesser began work on the show alone (after it was turned down by Lerner and Loewe, perhaps because of similarities…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

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What this page does not know

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• Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — 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.