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Laurence Schwab

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Book Writer 1892–1951

Laurence Schwab (1893 – May 29, 1951) was an American theater and film producer, writer, and director. He was born in Boston and attended Harvard University. His first success was as co-producer of The Gingham Girl (1922). He co-authored and produced numerous productions in the 1920s and 1930s. Several of his works were adapted to film.

Also credited on5 works

Good News!
The New Moon
Take A Chance
Free For All
Sweet Little Devil

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

  • B OOK : B. G. (Buddy) DeSylva and Laurence Schwab (additional dialogue by Sid Silvers)ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • Laurence Schwab and B. G. De Sylva wrote the book and De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson the songs, and, once again we have a location—the Tait College campus—that allows any student, teacher, or football-team associate to appear at will, so the limited number of sets doesn’t hobble the narration. The plot itself is remarkably concise for the…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Romberg was unable to complete the entire score for Rosalie because of another project, The New Moon (book by Hammerstein, Mandel and Laurence Schwab, lyrics by Hammerstein). This operetta shared its setting with Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta (1910), but also included parts that took place aboard the ship The New Moon and on an island…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
  • Good News (1927). Book: Laurence Schwab and B. G. De Sylva; lyrics: De Sylva and Lew Brown; music: Raytheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • The New Moon (1928). Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab; music:theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • GOOD NEWS Book, Laurence Schwab, B. G. De Sylva, Frank Mandel; Words and Music, De Sylva, Brown and Henderson; Adaptation and Direction, Abe Burrows; Musical Numbers Staged by Donald Saddler; Settings, Donald Oenslager; Costumes, Donald Brooks; Lighting, Tharon Musser; Dance Music Arranged and Orchestrations by Philip J. Lang; Musical Dir…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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