Irving Berlin

On stage 3 productions, 24 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

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Also credited on20 works

Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Revival)
As Thousands Cheer
Call Me Madam
Dance and Grow Thin
Everything
Face the Music
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Louisiana Purchase
Miss Liberty
Mr. President
Shoot the Works
Stop! Look! Listen!
The Broken Date
The Century Girl
The Cocoanuts
Watch Your Step
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
Fosse
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

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In the literature8 passages

• Broadway has always prided itself in being a “melting pot”, made up largely of immigrants from Eastern Europe or of first-generation Americans. Irving Berlin was born in Russia, but arrived in New York when he was a small child. But what of the composers who had already received their training and begun their careers in their home countri…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Susan had picked music by Irving Berlin for the first act and by Walter Donaldson for the second. It had to be reorchestrated because unlike Broadway, where there are twenty to twenty-five musicians in the pit, the New York City Ballet has a seventy-six-piece orchestra. It was stunning to listen to. Pi had a hard time ignoring them, but T…ebooks/Berloni, Bill/Broadway Tails_ Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became Showbiz Superstars - Bill Berloni & Jim Hanrahan.txt
• 89 Easter Parade , with a score by Irving Berlin, starred Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson were not in the film.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 42 In The Infinite Variety of Music , broadcast on 22 February 1959, Bernstein took the four notes of Irving Berlin's “How Dry I Am” (G-C-D-E), showing how they were used by composers from Handel (Water Music ) to Shostakovich (Fifth Symphony). The script was printed in Bernstein 1966, pp. 29–46.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• The song is Richman corn [Harry Richman, who introduced Irving Berlin’s song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in the 1930 film also called Puttin on the Ritz ], the flower number kind of thing—every girl reminds me of a flower; here is a hydrangea, here is a crocus, etc. a YOUNG MAN stays in the spotlight, holding out a hand for Hydrangea, who is in…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Barrett, Mary Ellin. Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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