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Mark Allen

Shows · Mark Allen

ComposerLyricistOn stage 19531958

On stage 4 productions, 5 years

1953 The Solid Gold Cadillac Belasco Theatre · Original 526 perf.
1955 Ankles Aweigh Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Fred F. Finklehoffe 176 perf.
1956 The Happiest Millionaire Lyceum Theatre · Original 271 perf.
1958 The Body Beautiful Broadway · Revival · directed by George Schaefer 60 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.

Also credited on1 work

Getting the Band Back Together

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 literature2 passages

  • Adrianne Lobel; Costumes, Debra Tennenbaum; Lights, Stephen Strawbridge; Technical Director, John E. Jankowski: Props, Mark Allen Flesher; Wardrobe, Leslie Baker; Sound, Monroe Head; Stage Managers, Ruth Kreshka, William H. Lang; Press, Milly Schoenbaum, Mark Routh, Kevin Patterson. CAST: Randle Mell (Murk), Jayne Haynes (April White), De…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt
  • Burns, Christopher Callen, Teresa Lynn Chapman, John Connolly, Jennifer Gordon, Tom Knickerbocker, Hap Lawrence, David Parker, Jack Rischel, Mark Allen Ruegg, Michele Scarpa, Peter Schmidt, Leslie Stevens FLYIN’ WESTtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1998-99 Season, v. 55 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • 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 — composer, lyricist — 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.

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