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Kenneth Waissman

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Kenneth Waissman (born January 1940) is an American theatre producer. Waissman's first Broadway credit was the 1971 Paul Zindel play And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Estelle Parsons and Julie Harris. The following year, while he and partner Maxine Fox were in Chicago, they attended Grease, a popular local play about high school life in the 1950s being performed at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of the city. The two thought it would work better as a musical and encouraged its writers, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, to relocate to New York City and embellish it with a score. The result was Grease, which Waissman and Fox mounted off-Broadway before transferring it uptown.…

Also credited on2 works

Grease
Torch Song Trilogy

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In the literature8 passages

  • Like so many in that career-stalled situation, Patty and Maxene were saved by Broadway. Lucky for them that producers Kenneth Waissman and Maxene Fox, who’d had such success with the nostalgia-ridden 1950s-show Grease, decided to go back a decade earlier to see if they could mine more riches from theatergoers’ memories. And while LaVerne…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • An aside: Over Here! coproducer Kenneth Waissman has said that the sisters had something else in common with the Marx Brothers: “They were nicknamed Nympho, Dyke-o, and Lusho for their habits,” he said, before refusing to divulge which nickname was the appropriate one for each sister.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • produced by Kenneth Waissman dod Measine Fox(Waissman) starring “The Andrews Sisters” ‘(Maxene Andrews and1 Pay Andrews)theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • EDEN THEATRE Opened Monday. February 14. 1972* Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox in association with Anthony D'Amato presenttheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • BROADHURST THEATRE Open Wednesday, June 7, 1972. Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox in association with Anthony D'Amato present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
  • SAM S. SHUBERT THEATRE Opened Wednesday, March 6, 1974.* Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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