Also credited on13 works
Spring Awakening
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014 Revival)
American Idiot
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Thoroughly Modern Millie
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
Funny Girl (2022 Revival)
Everyday Rapture
Head Over Heels
Triumph of Love
Swept Away
Chess
Galileo
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
- He interested Michael Mayer, the eventual director, and in 1997, both of them approached Jeanine Tesori to coordinate the music. Later they’d ask her to write a little. Later still they asked her to write substantially more. The dozen songs she composed had lyrics by Scanlan.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Director Michael Mayer shepherded Spring Awakening throughout a seven-year trail of workshops, concerts, and rewrites before the show opened at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company in May of 2006. The show then repeated its success when it moved to Broadway that fall.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- I suppose “Yes, We Have No Bananas” could be sung to Spring Awakening 's phallic microphones, but will Bill T. Jones and Michael Mayer, the musical's director, still be flourishing four decades from now, as Peter Brook still is, forty years after Oedipus? If so, will they be seeking new ways of doing musicals as Brook still seeks new ways…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Mainly on Directing - Arthur Laurents.txt
- After which, it’s a relief to turn to yet another famous staging, Michael Mayer’s of Spring Awakening (2006), after Frank Wedekind’s play about adolescents in turmoil. To depict a world hemmed in by regulations set down by clueless grownups, Mayer locked the action into a small playing area, with some of the audience (and some of the acto…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- Marc Kudisch and I were still going strong, and I drove him crazy agonizing over it while the fun factor kept nudging, and Michael Mayer kept telling me, “Trust me. You want to do this show.”ebooks/Rodgers, Joni/Little Bit Wicked, A - Joni Rodgers & Kristin Chenoweth.txt
- I thought Roger was fantastic as the Harlequin in Triumph of Love , and he said that the rehearsal period was crazy because F. Murray Abraham would quit the show every day right around 5:50. Then, that night, he would call the director, Michael Mayer, and rejoin the show. Speaking of Michael Mayer, he pushed for Roger to get the role of S…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 2 - Seth Rudetsky.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.