Michael Butler

On stage 2 productions, 4 years

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Also credited on1 work

Hair

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In the literature8 passages

• Gerald Freeman’s production had been a success, although it wasn’t a runaway one. Nevertheless, it picked up a fan in Michael Butler, a wealthy real-estate man whose big credits were president of the Illinois Sports Council and commissioner of the Chicago Regional Port. But he had the money to help move Hair to a nightclub called Cheetah,…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• When Hair was premiered on 2 December 1967 as the Public Theater’s inaugural production, it was set for an eight-week run, but Michael Butler, a wealthy liberal with anti-war sentiments, wanted the show seen by a wider audience and thus took over as producer. The Papp production then moved uptown to a discotheque called the Cheetah for 45…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
• I was doing sound for Peter, Paul and Mary on the road, and Peter Yarrow was a good friend of Michael Butler’s. That’s how I got connected to Hair , and designed the sound for the San Francisco production. I met director/choreographer Tom O’Horgan.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” first opened at Joe Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival on October 29, 1967. In stepped one Michael Butler, Indian rights enthusiast and black sheep scion of the high-flying aviation family. Butler financed the transfer of thetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• produced by Michael Butler in association with K. H. Nezhad with Perry Arthur, Cleavant Derricks, Loretta Devine, Randalltheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• Michael Butler’s follow-up to Hair—a Rastafarian love-rock musical, if you will—was long in gestation and short in duration. Hair had a strong director in Tom O’Horgan, an industrious and disciplined composer in Galt MacDermot, and author/stars—Rado and Ragni—who were marvels of organization compared to the Reggae assemblage. Reggae had b…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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