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 literature8 passages
- Styne had gone to Herb Gardner to discuss the possibility of musicalizing Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns, but Gardner presented Styne with the idea for One Night Stand, and Styne somehow went along with it. Gardner wrote his first musical book and lyrics for the show, and John Dexter was asked to direct. Jack Albertson and Elliott Gould were…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- Fosse told her he wanted to put her in a movie, something he was working on with Herb Gardner. Friends who knew Fosse advised Janice to be careful, that he was not on the market, that he would say lovely things and then he would hurt her; Janice assured them she could take care of herself. “I wanted a career and work,” she said, “so getti…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
- At nine o’clock the evening before the operation, he called Paddy Chayefsky and Herb Gardner into his hospital room to witness the signing of his new, revised will. They arrived moments after the lawyers and hung over Fosse’s bed, staring. It was depressing. To see this life-hungry maniac lying there semiconscious weighing next to nothing…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
- Fosse quit smoking. Gwen threw a Christmas party, reuniting him with the company of Chicago. On New Year’s Eve, at Herb Gardner’s party, he got drunk.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
- Progress on Ending was briefly and pleasantly interrupted by a call from Herb Gardner offering Fosse a cameo (one scene, a few lines) in John Berry’s film of Thieves, which Gardner adapted from his own 1974 play. Gardner cast Fosse as Mr. Day, a junkie who tries to rob strait-laced Martin Cramer, played by Charles Grodin, in an alley behi…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
- Sam called Chayefsky, Fosse, and Thieves ’ editor Craig McKay to join him and Gardner for an emergency dinner at Wally’s. Thieves wasn’t Herb Gardner’s mess, it was their mess, and Cohn made sure they would clean it up, all of them together, with five brains and one heart. “We were Sam’s children,” said editor Cynthia Scheider. “He was li…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- 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 — lyricist, book writer — 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.