Also credited on1 work
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
- Although his name is seldom heard in the same sentence as those of Florenz Ziegfeld , Max Reinhardt or Cameron Mackintosh , Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812) is, for me, one of the great (pardon the expression) unsung heroes of the musical. The friendship that he struck up with Leopold Mozart – and, more significantly with his son Wolfgang…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Like Fall , Oscar Straus (1870-1954) had also written for the cabarets, including some presented by Max Reinhardt . Alan Jay Lerner says, “He was the only one of them all with an appreciation of comedy.” [53] In 1908, Straus ’s Der tapfere Soldat (“ The Courageous Soldier”) opened with a libretto by Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) and Leopold…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Viennese-born Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was one of the leading directors of the twentieth century. His work straddled barriers between the traditional and new, populism and elitism, and intimacy and spectacle. In Berlin in 1919, he constructed the massive 3,000 seat Grosses Schauspielhaus , a domed arena with a thrust stage and revolve wh…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The Berlin of Max Reinhardt and of Kurt Weill (1900-50) is the child that was aborted. Reinhardt ’s Deutsches Theater was nationalised by Hitler in 1933 and eventually became the state theatre of the German Democratic Republic. Reinhardt and Weill , both Jews, became refugees of the Nazis. They had made two failed attempts to collaborate…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [82] Gottfried Reinhardt , The Genius – A Memoir of Max Reinhardt , Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979, pp. 68-69.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [87] Gusti Adler, Max Reinhardt , Festungsverlag, Salzburg, 1964, p. 43, cited in Michael Patterson, “Populism versus Elitism, The Great Tradition and Its Legacy , Berghahn Books, New York, 2003, p. 73.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
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What this page does not know
- 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.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — 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.