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Jerome Robbins

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DirectorChoreographer 1918–1998 On stage 19381945

Ballet master turned Broadway legend who staged some of the most iconic dances in musical theatre.

On stage 5 productions, 7 years

1938 Great Lady Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by William Dollar 20 perf.
1939 Stars in Your Eyes Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Joshua Logan 127 perf.
1939 The Straw Hat Revue Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Andrews 75 perf.
1941 The Ballet Theatre Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Anton Dolin
1945 Concert Varieties Ziegfeld Theatre · Original 36 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Richard Reed 3 productions
Nora Kaye 3 productions
Fernando Alonso 3 productions
Alicia Alonso 3 productions
Walter Cassel 2 productions
Vera Volkenau 2 productions
Russel Protopoff 2 productions
Robert Shanley 2 productions
Olga Suarez 2 productions
Newcombe Rice 2 productions
Muriel Bentley 2 productions
Maria Karniloff 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on20 works

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Bells Are Ringing
Billion Dollar Baby
Call Me Madam
Fiddler on the Roof
Funny Girl
Gypsy
Gypsy (2008 Revival)
High Button Shoes
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!
Miss Liberty
On the Town
Peter Pan
The King and I
The Pajama Game
Two’s Company
West Side Story
Wish You Were Here
Wonderful Town

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

  • Appendix One: Arthur Laurents (with Leonard Bernstein): Outline for Romeo sent to Jerome Robbinsebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 7. Leonard Bernstein with Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green working on On the Town , 1944.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 19. Leonard Bernstein with Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins working on West Side Story . Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt, published in Life , 7 January 1957.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 20. Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins being presented with the Key to Washington D.C. by Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin, 31 August 1957. Photo: Nate Fine.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 7 Leonard Bernstein with Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green working on On the Town in 1944.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 19 Leonard Bernstein with Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins working on West Side Story .ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.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.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director, choreographer — 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.

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