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Joe DiPietro

Shows · Joe DiPietro

LyricistBook Writer b. 1961

Tony-winning bookwriter of Memphis.

Also credited on4 works

Memphis
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Diana
All Shook Up

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In the literature8 passages

  • Presley’s songs, both famous and lesser-known, were shoehorned into a convoluted book that, librettist Joe DiPietro admitted, also borrowed a female-passing-for-male subplot from Twelfth Night. All Shook Up ran only 213 performances, but Jackson was noted as one of Broadway’s most handsome and muscular leading men.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • On the morning that the 2009–2010 Tony nominations were announced, Memphis garnered eight nominations, of which co-lyricist and bookwriter Joe DiPietro received two.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Book writer Joe DiPietro, according to the credits, was “inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.” He mostly raided their 1926 hit Oh, Kay! in which the title character and her brother, both British emigrés, were broke and turned to bootlegging. They stored their liquor in a deserted Long Island manse which, they later lear…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • 66. The playwright Joe DiPietro provided a revised book for a 2004 production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein flop Allegro at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, with the blessing of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization.ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
  • I loved Memphis ! During previews, David Bryan and Joe DiPietro worked on the show together every night. There was one scene where a white D.J. played “The White Tones” and then the lights would go up on a black D.J., playing rock ‘n’ roll. One night, they tried the show with the white D.J.’s scene cut. No one was happy about it. After th…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • The fact that they stuck with what worked instead of going with star names, that was incredible. We were so involved with David Bryan and Joe DiPietro and Chris Ashley in writing the magic of what the show was, and the producers knew that. There were five of us that stayed, from the first production in North Shore in 2003 to Broadway. It…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt

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