Hassard Short

On stage 13 productions, 16 years

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Worked with more than once5 names

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Also credited on27 works

As Thousands Cheer
Banjo Eyes
Between the Devil
Carmen Jones
Face the Music
Frederika
Jubilee
Lady in the Dark
Lucky
Make Mine Manhattan
Marinka
Mexican Hayride
Music Box Revue
Music in My Heart
Revenge With Music
Roberta
Seven Lively Arts
Seventeen
Something for the Boys
Sunny
Sunny Days
The Band Wagon
The Great Waltz
The Hot Mikado
Three Waltzes
Three’s a Crowd
Wake Up and Dream

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In the literature8 passages

• Direction : “Staged” by Hassard Short (“scenes directed” by Mr. Robert Edwin Clark, Esq. [Bobby Clark]); Producer : Michael Todd; Choreography : James Starbuck; Scenery : Howard Bay; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Lighting : Hassard Short; Musical Direction : Clay Warnickebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Staging by Hassard Short and book direction by Richard Whorf; Producers : Milton Berle, Sammy Lambert, and Bernie Foyer; Choreography : Dania Krupska; Scenery : Stewart Chaney; Lighting : Hassard Short; Costumes : David Ffolkes; Musical Direction : Vincent Traversebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Charles Friedman (production supervised by Hassard Short); Producers : Robert L. Joseph (Paul Vroom, Associate Producer); Choreography : Hanya Holm; Scenery and Costumes : Lemuel Ayers; Lighting : Hassard Short; Musical Direction : Franz Allers; Choral Direction : Robert Shawebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Many of the creators of Carmen Jones reunited for My Darlin’ Aida . Friedman was the adaptor as well as the director of the new work, while Hassard Short returned to oversee the overall staging and to create the lighting designs; Robert Shaw was again the choral director.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Its suggestive lyrics unfolded over Porter’s many refrains; the published version would have to be cleaned up considerably. During rehearsals, Hassard Short, busy with the big dance numbers onstage, had asked Lew Kesler to rehearse it with the two women upstairs in the theater, and together they had all worked out some hilarious pieces of…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• Jack Lait wrote two full paragraphs on the scene—especially on Hassard Short’s design—an astonishingly large tract of print real estate for a single musical number in a show that ran almost four hours on opening night:ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt

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