Also credited on3 works
Fiorello!
Tenderloin
I Can Get It For You Wholesale
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
- Griffith also loved the idea for the show and suggested Jerome Weidman, an old friend and neighbor in Connecticut, and the author of I Can Get It for You Wholesale, as a possible choice for librettist. Weidman agreed to write the book. Penn wanted to guide the writing and to direct. The producers met with LaGuardia's widow, Marie, at the…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
- I had met Hal once or twice when I was a kid and when my father [Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!] was working with him around 1959-60.... I sent him a letter saying that I doubted if he would remember me, but I had an idea for a play about the opening of Japan and I just wanted to get a reaction from him. I really did not expect to he…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
- Rehearsing I Can Get It For You Wholesale, with Harvey Sabinson, Harold Rome and Jerome Weidman.ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- The creative team for Fiorello! (1959) and Tenderloin (1960): standing from left, George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon Harnick; at the piano, Jerry Bock (Photofest )ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
- One of Jerome Weidman’s early drafts of Fiorello! contained a scene in which a number of ward-heelers were playing poker when they should have been attending to the business of choosing a candidate to run for Congress from their district. As written, it was an amusing scene which seemed certain to play well. Now, I had long had a desire t…ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
- 58 . In his memoir Praying for Rain (412–414), Jerome Weidman recalls just the opposite shift for “Marie’s Law,” from an earlier to a later scene in the first act. Evidence from the New Haven, Philadelphia, and New York playbills indicates otherwise.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
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