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Larry Fuller

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ChoreographerActorOn stage 19571964

Larry Fuller is an American choreographer, theatre director, dancer, and actor. Both a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominated choreographer, he is best known for his work on Broadway where he notably staged the movement for the original productions of On the Twentieth Century (1978), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Evita (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Is There Life After High School? (1982), and A Doll's Life (1982).

On stage 5 productions, 7 years

1957 The Music Man Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Morton DaCosta 1,375 perf.
1961 Donnybrook! 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Jack Cole 68 perf.
1961 Kean Broadway · Original · directed by Jack Cole 92 perf.
1962 Bravo Giovanni Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Prager 76 perf.
1964 Funny Girl Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins, Garson Kanin 1,348 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Alan Peterson 3 productions
Suanne Shirley 2 productions
Shellie Farrell 2 productions
Robert Evans 2 productions
Nancy Foster 2 productions
Lainie Kazan 2 productions
John Lankston 2 productions
John Aristides 2 productions
James Gannon 2 productions
Hal Norman 2 productions
George Harwell 2 productions
Ellen Halpin 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on5 works

A Doll's Life
Evita
Merrily We Roll Along
On the Twentieth Century
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Douglas Watt said that Prince directed the show "cleverly, pacing it well," adding that although Larry Fuller had staged the musical numbers "deftly," there was no dancing to speak of in the show.' 125 This was certainly not an unusual occurrence in a Prince musical.ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • Once again, Larry Fuller was asked to choreograph; Timothy O'Brien and Tazeena Firth were hired to do set designs, Florence Klotz to do costumes, and Ken Billington to do the lighting.ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • From left, choreographer Larry Fuller, Sondheim, librettist George Furth, Harold Prince, and, in the front row, cast members Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price at the premiere of Merrily We Roll Along . (Illustration Credit 32) Below, members of the cast (Illustration Credit 56)ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
  • Baughman’s break came at the Muny the year Larry Fuller choreographed The Wizard of Oz . He told her that if she ever came to New York to call him for an audition. She did, and was cast in Li’l Abner at New Jersey’s Papermill Playhouse.ebooks/Viagas, Robert/B004CRTAGM EBOK - Robert Viagas & Baayork Lee & Thommie Walsh.txt
  • THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT Lyncs and Music. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz; Director. Paul Aaron; Choreoeraphy. Larry Fuller; Orchestrations-Arrangements-Musical Direction. Luther Henderson; Scenery-Lighting. David F. Segal; Costumes, Jane Greenwood; Sound, Anthonv Alloy; Assistant Choreographer Merry Lynn Katis; Hairstyles. Henn Chevner.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • Based on a version of “Sweeney Todd” by Christopher Bond; Director, Harold Prince; Dance and Movement, Larry Fuller; Productiontheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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