Also credited on2 works
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sweet Smell of Success
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- The final New York run-through on the set took place Thursday at seven P.M. Judy Prince and John Guare were on hand, as well as Steve’s respected agent, Flora Roberts. Martha Swope came with a small crew and many cameras. The creative staff was in place. I asked Jim Goldman how he was doing. “I’m going to be fine, no matter what.” Guare,…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
- Although one of the plot points in John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separation involves a movie ofebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Follies was the greater achievement. Like Laurents, John Guare and Mel Shapiro had used a Shakespeare play as their template. And while they took a (then) contemporary and freewheeling approach to the material, they even retained a good portion of the Bard’s dialogue word for word.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Jerry, aiming high and ironically to the left, wanted to conceive a musical based on a Brecht play, The Exception and the Rule. John Guare was to write the book and Jerry had inveigled Lenny and Steve to write the score-Steve despite his dislike of Brecht and his determination to compose his own music for his lyrics. Zero Mostel was set t…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
- Like the movie, the show took place in that nighttime of dangerous glamor, in a unit set dominated by a cyclorama of skyscrapers. John Guare’s book found its own equivalent for the spooky vernacular Odets invented for the film, the wit of a warlord and his henchmen, making Sweet Smell altogether one of the very darkest of musicals. Yes, C…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- John Guare said that he was approached by Robbins shortly after the experimental workshop opened. Robbins and his troupe were working on improvisations, Robbins said, and needed a playwright to assess their ideas. Guare duly appeared and found they were “doing fantasies on the Kennedy assassination. Wonderful, but they were mainly dance,”…ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
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