Joseph Fields

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on3 works

Wonderful Town
The Girl in the Pink Tights
Flower Drum Song

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In the literature8 passages

• Wonderful Town (1952–3; book: Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green) (i) , (ii) n43, (iii) n60, (iv) n113, (v) n171, (vi) n58, (vii) n73, (viii) , (ix) , (x) , (xi) , (xii) , (xiii) n60, (xiv) n128, (xv) , (xvi) n53ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Based on the 1938 collection of short stories My Sister Eileen by Ruth McKenney and the 1940 play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Awards : Best Musical (Wonderful Town ); Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Rosalind Russell ); Best Authors of a Musical (Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ); Best Composer (Leonard Bernstein ); Best Producer of a Musical (Robert Fryer ); Best Scenic Designer (Raoul Pene du Bois ); Best Choreography (Donald Saddler ); Best Musical D…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Gene Kelly; Producers : Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in association with Joseph Fields; Choreography : Carol Haney; Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Lighting : Peggy Clark; Musical Direction : Salvatore Dell’Isolaebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Although in the Jerome Chodorov-Joseph Fields Wonderful Town (195 3) the older of the two sisters, Ruth, is always played by a star, again, as in Guys and Dolls, each of the two sisters generates equal interest. What seems to give more importance to the older one is the fact that her romantic opposite is defined, whereas the younger siste…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• That Hammerstein wasn’t physically well may have been inferred by his collaborating with journeyman Joseph Fields on the book. Only once during his Rodgers and Hammerstein days had Hammerstein shared book credit, and that was South Pacific when he had to; Joshua Logan had brought him and Rodgers the property, and co-owned it.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt

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