Jerry Zaks

On stage 3 productions, 8 years

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Worked with more than once5 names

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Also credited on15 works

Guys and Dolls
Hello, Dolly! (2017 Revival)
The Music Man (2022 Revival)
Mrs. Doubtfire
Guys and Dolls (1992 Revival)
Smokey Joe's Cafe
A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival)
La Cage aux Folles (2004 Revival)
The Addams Family
Sister Act
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale: The Musical
Swing!
The Civil War
Anything Goes

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In the literature8 passages

• JERRY ZAKS is director-in-residence of Jujamcyn Theatres. He has directed The House of Blue Leaves , Six Degrees of Separation , Smokey Joe’s Café , and the revivals of Anything Goes , Guys and Dolls , and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . He has performed on Broadway in Grease , Tintypes , and Fiddler on the Roof.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JERRY ZAKS: I was born in Germany after the war, the firstborn son of Holocaust survivors. In that no one expected my mother to ever have a child, I was considered a miracle. She and my father communicated to me, by virtue of their behavior, that I was the chosen one. I was expected to excel, and I did. Being survivors, my parents were su…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Sometimes the old ways work the best. When they were rehearsing the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls , Tony Walton and Jerry Zaks called me. “Listen,” I said, “I staged the show myself recently, and I opened it up and it hurt the show.” It’s an old-fashioned show, in-one—you can change the scenery in the back. You didn’t have winches in tho…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JERRY ZAKS : In the mid-1970s, when Zero came back to Fiddler for the second time, I played the role of Motel, the tailor. There was a scene where Zero was davening (praying) and I was following him around. He would say, “Just follow me.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JERRY ZAKS: I am a control freak. I hate stuff that’s messy. I admire when stuff can be messy and still have an effect on me. That’s a different school of directing.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JANE SUMMERHAYS: Jerry Zaks worked me into Lend Me a Tenor . I was off book when I went in, knew the lines, knew the role cold.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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