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
- Follies was the greater achievement. Like Laurents, John Guare and Mel Shapiro had used a Shakespeare play as their template. And while they took a (then) contemporary and freewheeling approach to the material, they even retained a good portion of the Bard’s dialogue word for word.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- in the original, and neglects everything that was good. The director Mel Shapiro, who could have known better, should probably do time for it, and possibly will. The choreographer Billy Wilson was given the task of making a vulgarity into an art—as well as linking passages between nonsense—and, no skin off his nose, failed. The sets and c…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- original production of Hair. He was joined by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, author and director of the absurdly wonderful 1971 OffBroadway hit The House of Blue Leaves. New York had already enjoyed contemporary-pop musical Shakespeare with the long-running 1968 Off-Broadway hit Your Own Thing (from Twelfth Night), but Two Gentstheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA By William Shakespeare; Adapted by John Guare, Mel Shapiro: Lyncs, John Guare; Music, Gait MacDermott; Director, Mel Shapiro; Setting, Mmg Cho Lee; Costumes, Theoni V. Aldredge; Lightirig, Lawrence Metzler; Choreography, Jean Erdman; Musical Supervision, Harold Wheeler; Additional Musical Staging, Dennis Nahat; Sou…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
- OLDER PEOPLE By John Ford Noonan; Director, Mel Shapiro; Setting, Ming Cho Lee; Costumes, Theoni V. Aldredge; Lighting, Roger Morgan; Music, Peter Link; Lyrics, John Ford Noonantheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
- TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Adapted by John Guare and Mel Shapiro; Music, Gait MacDermot; Lyrics, John Guare; Director, Mel Shapiro; Choreography, Jean Erdman; Musical Director, Margaret Harristheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (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.
- 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, 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.