Lewis Allen

On stage 1 production

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Annie

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In the literature8 passages

• And yet his biggest triumph to date came for a production he didn’t direct. Spurred by Lewis Allen, a business partner, he saw a performance of Annie at the Goodspeed Opera House and wanted to be involved. With lyricist Martin Charnin doing the staging, Nichols offered to become the show’s lead producer, and Allen joined the team, as well…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• The month of June 1982 was a pivotal one. He was approached by a producer, Lewis Allen, suggesting he collaborate with James Lapine, a young writer-director, on a musical version of a novella by Nathanael West, A Cool Million . As it happened, Sondheim already knew of Lapine’s work, having seen his play Twelve Dreams at the New York Shake…ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
• touch. (He had never produced before; neither had any of the principal partners except Lewis Allen, whose credits included the 1965 Half a Sixpence.) The Goodspeed Annie needed a magic touch, certainly, andtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• Lewis Allen-produced 1962 summer stock tryout called The World of Jules Feiffer, featured Loudon as Passionella with songs by Sondheim.) Annié’s two Nichols-less sequels were undernourished, certainly. Annie 2 (Miss Hannigan’s Revenge) was pronounced dead on arrival at its 1990 Kennedy Center tryout, even with Dorothy Loudon kicking up a…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• produced by Allen-Hodgdon (Lewis Allen and Dana Hodgdon), Stevens Productions (Roger L. Stevens) and Harold clone (with Harry Rigby billed Pa starring Tommy Steeletheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• produced by Mike Nichols and Lewis Allen |in association sah : Urban Arts Corps (Vinnette Carroll) and Anita MacShanetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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