John Weidman

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on6 works

Pacific Overtures
Contact
Assassins (2004 Revival)
Anything Goes (2011 Revival)
Big
Anything Goes

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In the literature8 passages

• The 1987 revival contained yet another new book, this time by Russel Crouse’s son Timothy and John Weidman. 14 This book retained two of the interpolations from 1962 (“It’s De-Lovely” and “Friendship”), and added two other Porter tunes from shows that had not even appeared on Broadway, “Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” from O Mistress Mine…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Stroman called bookwriter John Weidman, with whom she’d collaborated on Big. (One of the marks of a champion is working again with someone you still believe in even if you had a flop together.) Together they decided to do a piece that involved far more dance than book. Contact, it would be called.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Men only was one of the time-honored conventions of Japanese theater that Sondheim and librettist John Weidman were intent on honoring. Pacific Overtures was to be a Broadway musical, yes, but it would be as authentically Japanese as possible.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• In 1967, twenty years before they’d rewrite Anything Goes , Timothy Crouse and John Weidman were seniors at Harvard University writing the one hundred and nineteenth annual Hasty Pudding show.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Book: Timothy Crouse & John Weidman based on original by P. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouseebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• John Weidman, while still a student at the Yale Law School, wrote an outline for a play about Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. Having majored in East Asian history during his undergraduate days at Harvard, he felt that the subject would make good material for a play. Although Weidman had never written a play before, he had done a go…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt

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