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 literature4 passages
- Coco staff and developing it. Not long into rehearsals, director Michael Benthall didn’t seem to have enough vision to stage the show, but Hepburn noticed that this short, bearded choreographer named Michael Bennett did. Whatever Hepburn wanted, Hepburn got, and because she trusted Bennett, most everyone else started taking his suggestion…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Michael Benthall, who had once directed Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the Shaw original, was hired to direct, shortly after he had finished directing I’m Solomon. Leslie Caron was Benthall’s first choice for Cleopatra, but when he saw Leslie Uggams in Hallelujah, Baby!, he changed his mind. He hired Richard Kiley, fresh from Man of…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- Bennett’s next show as choreographer was Coco (1969), a vehicle for Katherine Hepburn directed by Michael Benthall. With both star and director working on their first musical, Bennett’s role was very large. He choreographed dances around a largely stationary, charismatic star, and worked on book scenes; Mandelbaum called Coco Bennett’s ‘u…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
- score was heavily doctored) and staged by the I’m Solomon (1968) team of Michael Benthall and Donald McKayle (both of whom were fired). Nobody was fired from Gantry, but the three writers were new totheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.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.
- 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 — 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.