Also credited on3 works
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In the literature8 passages
- Sketches : John Cleveland, Luther Davis, Peter De Vries, and Melvin (Mel) Brooks, Ronny Graham, Peter De Vries, Paul Lynde, June Melville, and Roger Priceebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Tony Awards and Nominations : Best Musical (Kismet ); Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Alfred Drake ); Best Author of a Musical (Charles Lederer and Luther Davis ); Best Producer of a Musical (Charles Lederer ); Best Composer (Alexander Borodin ); Best Musical Conductor (Louis Adrian)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Librettist Luther Davis credited Vicki Baum’s 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel ) as the direct source for his musical adaptation. In the same year, Baum had adapted her novel into a play, and its American version (as Grand Hotel ) by William A. Drake opened on Broadway in 1930; MGM’s 1932 film version (which starred Greta G…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Book writer Luther Davis and songwriters Robert Wright and George Forrest had first conceived the musical version of the famed 1932 MGM film more than three decades earlier. But At the Grand had closed in California. As much as they didn’t expect a second chance, they must have been more flabbergasted to have their musical open with this…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Author interviews with Luther Davis; Keith Edwards; Helen Gallagher; Larry Grossman; Sheldon Harnick; Robert Kamlot; John Kander; Judy Kaye; Robert Klein; Bill Liberman; Hugh Martin; Walter Newkirk; Lonny Price; Stephen Sondheim; Peter Stone; and Margaret Styne.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- 53. Hobe Morrison, review of Timbuktu! , music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, book by Luther Davis, directed by Geoffrey Holder, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, Variety , March 8, 1978,.ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.