Jerry Ross

On stage 2 productions

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Also credited on5 works

Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees (1994 Revival)
Razzle Dazzle
The Pajama Game
Fosse

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In the literature8 passages

• Lyrics : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Grace, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Joseph McCarthy Jr., Alan Melville, Jerry Ross, John Rox, and Carl Tuckerebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Music : Richard Adler, Harry Belafonte, Cy Coleman, Sammy Gallup, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Jerry Ross, John Rox, Henry Sullivan, and Charles Zwarebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Earlier in the season, the novice team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross had written a number of songs for the revue John Murray Anderson’s Almanac . Five months later, their score for the smash hit The Pajama Game offered a hit-parade-load of popular songs that included “Hey, There,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” and “Steam Heat.” The musical bec…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The lighthearted book was full of amusing situations and one-liners, and Richard Adler and Jerry Ross provided another Pajama Game –styled score with a variety of clever and catchy songs, including the zippy opening number “Six Months Out of Every Year,” the barbershop quartet “Heart,” the mambo “Who’s Got the Pain?,” the western-styled h…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Richard Adler and Jerry Ross made a rousing musical, The Pajama Game from Richard Bissell's bestseller about labor relations, Seven and a Half Cents. A year later they repeated their success with Damn Yankees, based on Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Both these shows appeared within a few years of the novels' runs…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• May 13, 1954: The Pajama Game opens. Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, who had previously only contributed songs to one Broadway revue, provide the entire score.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt

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