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Julian Mitchell

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DirectorChoreographer 1854–1926 On stage 1936

Julian Mitchell (November 1852 – June 23, 1926) was an American theatre director and choreographer. Known as one of Broadway's most prolific directors, he directed more than eighty musicals between 1884 and 1926. His best remembered show may be The Wizard of Oz (1902). Julian was probably born in New York City, and was the nephew of actress Maggie Mitchell. Julian acted in her company from 1879 to 1882. His education in directing came from Charles Hale Hoyt, for whom he began as a character actor and became a director in 1884. From around the turn of the century he directed and choreographed Weber and Fields shows. In the 1902 Wizard of Oz, it was his idea to summon the North Wind to destroy…

On stage 1 production

1936 On Your Toes Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Worthington Miner 315 perf.

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Also credited on7 works

Babes in Toyland
Follies Of 1907
Sunny
The Fortune Teller
The Pink Lady
The Wizard Of Oz
Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature4 passages

  • Because of the popularity of The Wizard of Oz , producers Fred R. Hamlin and Julian Mitchell (who was Broadway’s most prolific director of musicals with 78 shows to his credit) commissioned Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough to come up with a successor, if not exactly a sequel, to follow their previous hit into the Majestic Theatre. Once…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Choreographers: Julian Mitchell, David Bennett, Alexis Kosloff, John Tiller, Fred Astaireebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The director-choreographer is actually an old hand at the musical. Two such, Julian Mitchell and Edward Royce, were already at work at the turn of the century. But their choreography was of a standard cut, a series of hoofing "combinations" replicated from show to show. Much later, George Balanchine, Charles Weidman, and Agnes de Mille re…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Fields joined with producer Fred Hamlin and director Julian Mitchell to organise the Lew Fields Stock Company. Hamlin and Mitchell had been involved with two hits from 1903: The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Toyland . Mitchell’s directorial career covered the full high–low spectrum from Herbert’s comic opera The Fortune Teller starring Alice…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt

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