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Gerald Freedman

Shows · Gerald Freedman

Director 1927–2020

Gerald Alan Freedman (June 25, 1927 – March 17, 2020) was an American theatre director, librettist, and lyricist, and a college dean.

Also credited on4 works

The Robber Bridegroom
Man in the Moon
The Gay Life
The Grand Tour

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 literature8 passages

  • The “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” (as it was billed) was first presented on October 29, 1967 under the direction of Gerald Freedman at Joseph $2.50 ticket price, it remained for about a month and a half, then moved to a Broadway nightclub called Cheetah. At that point, Michael Butler, a fledgling producer, took over the show for a B…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • In addition, there was one other significant development: namely, Hair had no "book" in the normal sense of the word. When it first opened, at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, under the direction of Gerald Freedman, it did have a book, a book about a young boy called up for service in the Vietnam War. Later, when the show was moved, first to…ebooks/Jones, Tom/Making Musicals_ An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater - Tom Jones.txt
  • Returning from lunch one day, I found Gerald Freedman, Jerry's assistant director, standing on a chair outside one of the dressing rooms. The door was closed but the transom was open so he could overhear Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence as Tony and Maria rehearse the balcony scene with the privacy the scene When they got onstage, they were s…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
  • Kermit Bloomgarden, producer of such hit musicals as The Most Happy Fella and The Music Man, hired Gerald Freedman, who had assisted Jerome Robbins and others with earlier musicals, to make his directing debut, and Herbert Ross to choreograph. While the show was in Detroit (as the first show ever at the Fisher Theatre), Bloomgarden had Ro…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • The music for A Time for Singing was by John Morris, who had composed dance music for dozens of shows, and Morris collaborated on the book with Gerald Freedman, who was the director. With English (Shani Wallis, Laurence Naismith) and Welsh (Tessie O’Shea, Ivor Emmanuel) leads, A Time for Singing tried out in Boston, where Gower Champion c…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • A new production of the show began at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and this production returned the show to Broadway, with the director (Gerald Freedman) and choreographer (Donald Saddler) of the Acting Company production, some book and score changes, and a new cast headed by Barry Bostwick as Jamie. During a dress rehearsal, Bost…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

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