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Jerome Weidman

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Book Writer 1913–1998

Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, New York City – October 6, 1998, New York City) was an American playwright and novelist. He collaborated with George Abbott on the book for the musical Fiorello! with music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. All received the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work.

Also credited on3 works

Fiorello!
Tenderloin
I Can Get It For You Wholesale

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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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