Joe Layton

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on16 works

Barnum
George M!
Greenwillow
No Strings
Once Upon A Mattress
The Sound of Music
Sail Away!
The Girl Who Came to Supper
Dear World
Platinum
Bring Back Birdie
Drat! the Cat!
Harrigan ‘n Hart
Sherry!
Tenderloin
Two By Two

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In the literature8 passages

• Direction : Vincent J. Donehue; Producers : Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II; Choreography : Joe Layton; Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Lucinda Ballard (Mary Martin’s costumes by Mainbocher); Lighting : Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Frederick Dvonchebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : George Abbott; Producers : T. Edward Hambleton, Norris Hambleton, and William and Jean Eckart; Choreography : Joe Layton; Scenery and Costumes : William and Jean Eckart; Lighting : Tharon Musser; Musical Direction : Clay Warnickebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Meanwhile, the cast and crew were wondering why Champion wasn’t attending more rehearsals. Why were Ron Field and Joe Layton surreptitiously around? Didn’t Champion’s choreography assistant Randy Skinner seem to be the one suggesting new steps and supervising numbers?ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Wakefield Poole, who was director Joe Layton’s assistant on George M! in 1968, was impressed by the young Peters. In his memoir Dirty Poole, he recalled that once during rehearsals, he happened to spy her notebook. “Bernadette had maybe 30 lines of dialogue in the whole show, so she had written things down to help her,” he wrote. “She’d m…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• There have been two New York revivals of On the Town. Joe Layton staged an Off-Broadway version in 1959, with Harold Lang, Wisa D’Orso, and Pat Carroll, and Ron Field staged a Broadway version in 1971 with Ron Husmann, Donna McKechnie, Bernadette Peters, and Phyllis Newman. The movie adaptation, released in 1949, co-starred Gene Kelly, Ve…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Rosalind Russell, George Gaynes, Edie Adams, Henry Lascoe, Dort Clark, Dody Goodman, Nathaniel Frey, Joe Laytonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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