Joshua Logan

On stage 3 productions, 43 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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Also credited on13 works

All American
Annie Get Your Gun
By Jupiter
Fanny
Higher and Higher
I Married an Angel
Knickerbocker Holiday
Look to the Lilies
Mr. President
South Pacific
South Pacific (2008 Revival)
Stars in Your Eyes
Wish You Were Here

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In the literature8 passages

• 74 Joshua Logan (1908–88), American theater and film director. Logan's Broadway credits included Annie Get Your Gun and South Pacific , for which he also co-wrote the book and shared a Pulitzer Prize with Rodgers and Hammerstein. Logan had known Bernstein for several years by the time of West Side Story . A telegram from Logan dated 17 No…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Direction and Choreography : Joshua Logan; Producers : Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Robert Mackintosh; Musical Direction : Jay Blacktonebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Joshua Logan; Producers : David Merrick and Joshua Logan; Choreography : Helen Tamiris; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Alvin Colt; Musical Direction : Lehman Engelebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Warner Brothers 1961 film version relegated the songs to underscoring; directed by Joshua Logan, the cast included Leslie Caron (Fanny), Maurice Chevalier (Panisse), Charles Boyer (Cesar), and Horst Buchholz (Marius). As a straight story without songs, the film was sometimes affecting (if overlong). It was beautifully photographed and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The 1958 film version was released by Twentieth Century-Fox and was directed by Joshua Logan; the cast included Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor (perhaps the definitive Nellie Forbush), John Kerr, Ray Walston (reprising his Billis from the London production), and Juanita Hall reprising her role of Bloody Mary from the original 1949 production…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Tony for Best Book was awarded in 1949 to Bella and Sam Spewack for Kiss Me, Kate and in 1950 to Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan for South Pacific. The award then took an eleven-year hiatus before resuming, and it’s been given almost ever since. Alas, in 1988–1989, the committee couldn’t even dredge up one worthy nominee and com…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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