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Margo Lion

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ActorDirector 1899–1989

Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion (28 February 1899 – 24 February 1989), known as Margo Lion, was a Turkish-born French singer and actress. Lion was born in Constantinople to a Jewish family during Ottoman rule. She moved to Berlin after World War I with her father to join the school of Russian ballet. She was a successful chanteuse, parodist, cabaret singer, and actress, best known for her role as Pirate Jenny in director G. W. Pabst's 1931 French-language adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper). In 1928, Lion and Dietrich sang a famous duet, "Wenn die beste Freundin mit der besten Freundin", a song which allegedly had lesbian o…

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  • More recently the producer Margo Lion said of investing in the commercial theater, “It's like going to the track or to Las Vegas. Only 20 percent to 25 percent of the productions on Broadway make back their initial capital.” She said this despite the fact that Lion has been a producer of many wonderful Broadway shows, such as Caroline, or…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
  • Producer Margo Lion was quoted earlier comparing Broadway investing to gambling at casinos. That's not accurate. On average the casino always wins. The gaming business refers to payout , the amount of each bet on average that is returned to the gambler. For slot machines in Las Vegas, the payout ranges from 93 to 87 percent. Board game pa…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
  • However much the theatre has changed, there are still producers whose commitment to a project is intense. Margo Lion spent nine years producingJelly's LastJam, a musical about Jelly Roll Morton by George C. Wolfe. It opened on Broadway in 1992 to admiring if uneven reviews, had a brief run and lost all its money. Another show she develope…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • She’d experienced many a good morning while growing up in Baltimore. That could be one reason why Margo Lion responded so enthusiastically to the 1988 film Hairspray, made by fellow Baltimorean John Waters.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • PAM KOSLOW HINES: Margo Lion had the idea of a jazz musical about Jelly Roll Morton and wondered if Gregory Hines would be interested in directing a workshop. But Greg wanted to play the character rather than direct him, and so we started on this long journey to theatricalize Jelly’s life.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • Producers: Margo Lion and Pamela Koslow in association with PolyGram Diversified Entertainment, 126 Second Avenue Corp./Hal Luftig, Roger Hess, Jujamcyn Theaters/TV Ashahi and Herb Alpertebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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