Joel Grey

On stage 12 productions, 60 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Chicago (1996 Revival)

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In the literature8 passages

• I dreamed it. I had a dream. What happened on this runway was that Joel Grey came out, and there was a gorilla in a tutu. That’s the truth. No words, no music, but that was the image. And then I told Hal [Prince, the director]... and he thought it was kind of baroque... and then I tried to get a song - I know it is silly - that would fit…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• Cast : Joel Grey, Muriel Landers, Conrad Janis, Aileen Stanley Jr., Bernie West, Dorothy Greener, Kelly Brown, Will Holt, Barbara Nichols, Barbara Heller, Loray White, Alec Davis, Judy Foster, Paul Jayson, Leon Tyler, Ludmilla Kiro, Joanne Larkin, Claire Gunderman, Irma Grant, Louise Glenn, Betty Rhodes, Rob Bieber, Pat Nestor, The Tail G…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: (*) “Man’s Inhumanity to Man” (lyric by Charles Strouse, music by Michael Stewart) (Director: Bernie West; Author: Joel Grey; Lighting Man: Will Holt; Designer: Leon Tyler; Choreographer: Paul Jayson; Dancers: Joanne Larkin, Aileen Stanley Jr., Judy Foster, Louise Glenn, Pat Nestor, Ludmilla Kiro, Claire Gunderman, Irma Grant; Gi…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• (*) “(An) (That) Element of Doubt” (lyric by Howard Dietz, music by Sammy Fain) (Young Lady: Loray White; Boy: Joel Grey; Girl: Muriel Landers); later heard in the Broadway revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 (but was dropped from the revue during the run);ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• (*) “Ashcan” (sketch by Lester Pine) (directed by Joseph Sargent) (Joey: Joel Grey; Boy on Box: Leon Tyler; Girl with Skip Rope: Loray White; Girl with Loaf of Bread: Judy Foster; Girl with Jacks: Louise Glenn; Two Tough Boys: Conrad Janis and Kelly Brown; Girl with Bottle: Dorothy Greener);ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Actors were going to be working for peanuts. Liza Minnelli was getting $100,000, Michael York was getting $50,000, Joel Grey was getting $35,000. Fosse was being paid $75,000. The reason we were shooting at the Bavaria Studio in Munich was to save money. The whole budget was $3.4 million. We were working with a very tight collar.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt

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