On stage 1 production
| 1898 | The Little Host Herald Square Theatre · Original · directed by Max Freeman | 37 perf. |
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In the literature8 passages
- Direction : John C. Wilson; Producers : Harry Rigby and Jule Styne with Alexander H. Cohen; Choreography : Gower Champion; Scenery and Costumes : Raoul Pene du Bois; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Milton Rosenstockebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Direction : John Murray Anderson; sketches directed by Cyril Ritchard; Producers : Michael Grace, Stanley Gilkey, Harry Rigby; Choreography : Donald Saddler; Scenery : Raoul Pene du Bois; Costumes : Thomas Becher; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Buster Davisebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Following the filming of Show Boat , Gower returned to New York in January 1951 as choreographer for Make a Wish. Harry Rigby and Jule Styne produced the show in association with Alexander H. Cohen. All three would later figure prominently in Gower’s musicals of the early 1970s: Rigby as producer of Irene , Styne as composer of Prettybell…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
- In 1971, a new production of No, No, Nanette opened in New York after experiencing an equally difficult tryout tour (see page 231) Harry Rigby, who conceived the idea of the revival, was bought out by his co-producer Cyma Rubin, Burt Shevelove replaced Busby Berkeley as director, and Jack Gilford and Susan Watson took over the roles of Ji…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Producers weren’t interested in the property until Harry Rigby, who had recently had a big hit with Sugar Babies, came along. Rigby was probably the wrong man for this delicate material, which he envisioned transformed into an elaborate star vehicle. In 1980, he announced that Debbie Reynolds would star and Frank Dunlop would direct. A ye…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- Nanette’ s producers, Harry Rigby and Cyma Rubin, sundered their partnership. She went on to an Oh, Kay! that closed in tryout, but he came up with another knockout in Irene , in 1973, starring Debbie Reynolds (succeeded by Jane Powell, and both in their Broadway debuts). For some strange reason, John Gielgud was hired to direct; perhaps…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
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