James Shelton

On stage 2 productions, 10 years

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Also credited on2 works

Dance Me a Song
Almost Crazy

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In the literature8 passages

• Sketches : Jimmy (James) Kirkwood and Lee Goodman, George Oppenheimer and Vincente Minnelli, Marya Mannes, Robert Anderson, James Shelton, Wally Cox, Herman Hupfield, and Cynthia Rogersebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : James Shelton; Producers : Dwight Deere Wiman in association with Robert Ross; Choreography : Robert Sidney; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Musical Direction : Tony Cabotebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Sketches : Robert A. Bernstein, Hal Hackady, Lester Judson, Kay Medford, and James Sheltonebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Lyrics : Lenny Adelson, Helen Bragdon, Joyce Geary, Hal Hackady, Stan Hagler, Jim Kay, Portia Nelson, Sam Rosen, James Shelton, and Raymond (Ray) Taylorebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Kay Medford, Babe Hines, Karen Anders, James Shelton, Betty Colby, Kevin Scott, Alvin Beam, Vincent Beck, Ron Cecill, Nick Dana, Lorna Del Maestro, Phyllis Dorne, Mildred Hughes, Joan Morton, William Skipper, Gloria Smith, Rita Tanno, Richard Towers, Ann Yorkebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Two songs had earlier appeared in James Shelton’s 1947 summer-stock revue The Shape of Things , whose cast included Elaine Stritch and Bibi Osterwald: “Come Home and Get Cozy with Me” and “As We Told You.” For Shape , both the lyric and music for the first song were credited to Carly Mills, and the latter’s lyric and music to Shelton. But…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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